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Uncle Joe

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45. Would a representative government be more accountable to the people than the gangsters?

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:27 PM

Feb 2012

Would the people force the government to use any funds from the selling of drugs for education and rehabilitation?

Whitney gave interviews in which she spoke of using crack and/or cocaine, those aren't legal.

The question becomes with all the legal drugs that wealth can buy, why would someone with her income and fame risk it all with illegal ones?

The fact is our corporate media speaks with two faces, on the one hand demonizing some drugs while pushing others for every ailment under the sun on the primetime network news which sould be starting any minute now.

Flip through the networks with your remote and count the drug messages all just within 30 minutes time span, of course this doesn't include the rest of the day and night's drug messages.

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Singer Tony Bennett calls for legalizing drugs [View all] kpete Feb 2012 OP

Uh.... Michael Jackson was "getting to a doctor". femmocrat Feb 2012 #1

Forget it, he's rolling. eShirl Feb 2012 #4

Yer' harshing my buzz femmocrat cbrer Feb 2012 #11

legalize them. spanone Feb 2012 #38

Cool, Tony! So you want us to be able to be prescribed crack and heroin by our doctors? (eyeroll) richmwill Feb 2012 #2

Harm Reduction is smart compared to the destructive consequences of prohibition. eShirl Feb 2012 #3

It takes 6 hours to get booked for crack....it's takes six months to get into rehab...maybe... Lochloosa Feb 2012 #5

Actually it is a very smart move. MadHound Feb 2012 #6

Thank you..I did not have the patience Lochloosa Feb 2012 #7

great post, thank you nt steve2470 Feb 2012 #8

Thanks, you nailed it. <3 Spock_is_Skeptical Feb 2012 #10

+1 legalize it flamingdem Feb 2012 #12

yep. Little Star Feb 2012 #29

Yes! Yes! Yes! Fix The Stupid Feb 2012 #30

++ Good post cbrer Feb 2012 #13

If only it were that easy FrodosPet Feb 2012 #16

I am basing my observations in reality, MadHound Feb 2012 #25

So WHAT do we legalize? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #31

We legalize everything, for reasons that I named above MadHound Feb 2012 #35

No one illegally sells legal products? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #39

What is the proportion of illegal booze sold compared to legal booze? MadHound Feb 2012 #44

After 35 years of using marijuana, roody Feb 2012 #46

Holy crap, you and me agree on something! TheWraith Feb 2012 #19

Well it does happen once in a blue moon. MadHound Feb 2012 #26

+1 Little Star Feb 2012 #28

Yeah, just like our doctors prescribe alcohol. (eyeroll) cbrer Feb 2012 #15

I would very much like for doctors to be able to prescribe heroin Fozzledick Feb 2012 #17

Actually, they do prescribe heroin, kind of. TheWraith Feb 2012 #20

I think "quotation" marks should be more "tightly" regulated Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #21

I do! It's called "harm reduction" Taverner Feb 2012 #33

the drugs came from a doctor riverwalker Feb 2012 #9

But his heart is in the right place. nt DCKit Feb 2012 #14

So fucking what? Taverner Feb 2012 #34

Legalizing drugs would have kept Amy Winehouse alive? Ter Feb 2012 #18

The only thing that could have kept Amy Winehouse alive was Amy Winehouse. Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #23

If the ONLY choices are full legalization and what we've got now, I'll go with full legalization. Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #22

I was thinking that if drugs were legal people.. Little Star Feb 2012 #27

I think the best advertisement against meth is meth users themselves. But when anti-drug programs Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #32

good topic jessicasiny Feb 2012 #24

What we should be doing is calling for stricter regulations on Big Pharma. Initech Feb 2012 #36

Is the pattern that legal products are still abused? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #40

No - I'm saying the stuff Big Pharma produces is just as dangerous. Initech Feb 2012 #42

Perhaps nationalize the pharmaceutical industry? FrodosPet Feb 2012 #43

I like Tony's singing Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2012 #37

So basically, the government can get rich from drug users instead of 'gangsters.' Dreamer Tatum Feb 2012 #41

Would a representative government be more accountable to the people than the gangsters? Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #45