It's no Big Pharma coincidence that the 100's of b
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Posted On: 12/26/2013 4:42:55 PM
It's no Big Pharma coincidence that the 100's of billions of dollars spent on the "war on drugs" (never meant to be won) over the past 40-50 years has driven people to abuse prescription medicine, so that now abuse of prescription drugs is a bigger problem that abuse of illegal drugs and kills more every year than cocaine and heroin combined. Big Pharma happy to fill the hugely profitable demand for its "abused" medicaments. Prohibition is a big win for them.
Surprisingly, it was conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. (died 2006), founder of National Review magazine, who long ago identified the marriage of corruption --fed by prohibition-- within law, science, govt and business. Buckley's voice of reason on this subject is missed
1. The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents"
~William F. Buckley, Jr., commentary in National Review, April 29, 1983.
2. "Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy (...) and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' (...) fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others."
~ William F. Buckley, Jr., commentary in National Review, April 29, 1983.
3. "More people die every year as a result of the war against drugs than die from what we call, generically, overdosing."
"The cost of the drug war is many times more painful, in all its manifestations, than would be the licensing of drugs combined with intensive education of non-users and intensive education designed to warn those who experiment with drugs."
"Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority."
~ William F. Buckley, Jr., "The War on Drugs is Lost," National Review July 1, 1996.
Surprisingly, it was conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. (died 2006), founder of National Review magazine, who long ago identified the marriage of corruption --fed by prohibition-- within law, science, govt and business. Buckley's voice of reason on this subject is missed
1. The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents"
~William F. Buckley, Jr., commentary in National Review, April 29, 1983.
2. "Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy (...) and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' (...) fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others."
~ William F. Buckley, Jr., commentary in National Review, April 29, 1983.
3. "More people die every year as a result of the war against drugs than die from what we call, generically, overdosing."
"The cost of the drug war is many times more painful, in all its manifestations, than would be the licensing of drugs combined with intensive education of non-users and intensive education designed to warn those who experiment with drugs."
"Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority."
~ William F. Buckley, Jr., "The War on Drugs is Lost," National Review July 1, 1996.
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