XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.republicans   
   XPost: soc.culture.usa   
   From: RWMaroon456@post.com   
      
   Mr. B1ack  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:45:27 -0500, "Byker"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Frank"  wrote in message news:njq0k7$olh$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>   
   >>> Similar to the heroin problem where current solution is to get out more OD   
   >>> kits.   
   >>   
   >> Why don't they just sell methadone over-the-counter...   
   >   
   >    People get high on methadone. Unfortunately they   
   >    also get very dead on methadone. Janis Joplin   
   >    reportedly OD'd on it amongst other notables. The   
   >    problem is that the dosage range that gets you high   
   >    isn't all that far off from the dosage that kills. Heroin   
   >    is actually safer in that respect. Fentanyl is another   
   >    narrow-range narcotic ... which nailed Prince.   
   >   
   >    Time to just end the 'drug war'. X-percent are gonna   
   >    be stonies pretty much no matter what and that's that.   
   >    No point in funding huge crime organizations, corrupting   
   >    cops and officials, funding the companies that provide   
   >    expensive drug-war-fighting stuff. No point in turning   
   >    stonies into criminals who have to skulk in the darkest   
   >    corners of society while the drunks are free to stumble   
   >    down the street to the nearest bar. No point in fueling   
   >    street-level gangs that massacre each other and anyone   
   >    who gets in the way like it was the 1920s. No point in   
   >    corrupting constitutional protections of due process,   
   >    evidence-gathering and rational sentencing either.   
   >   
   >    There are also some annoying cultural/racial/class bias   
   >    issues involved that shouldn't exist.   
   >   
   >    Most stonies CAN do stuff ... even if it's just working   
   >    at the Circle-K ... but the current environment makes   
   >    that almost impossible, leaving them nothing but a   
   >    life of crime to survive on.   
   >   
   >    So just DROP the damned drug war. Clean dope in   
   >    measured strengths for realistic prices ... and 99%   
   >    of the "drug problem" and its ludicrous, pointless,   
   >    expense will just disappear. Tax on the sales can go   
   >    to programs for people who get tired of being stonies.   
   >   
   >    So who's FOR the drug war ? Corrupt cops and pols   
   >    and mind-everybodys-business neo-puritans For   
   >    everyone else the negatives greatly exceed any benifits.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Amen to all of that. Legalize, regulate and tax all of it. If people could   
   get it legally through a licensed physician, they wouldn't have to go to   
   some asshole on the street who's just trying to raise money for his own   
   drugs. People's lives are being ruined for no other reason than they had a   
   weak moment at some point. What's the difference between the drunk and the   
   opioid addict when they both pass out in a park? The real answer is,   
   nothing. But the opioid addict gets a felony conviction and can't get a job   
   while the drunk gets a pat on the back from his friends.   
      
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