style="float: right; margin: 0 10px" >Man, the href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ex-oxycontin10may10,1,5356842.story?"
target="blank">Oxycontin clusterbungle just gets worse and worse.
After years of hooking the poor, the pained and (Rush Limbaugh and href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/oxycontin_the_g.html"
target="blank">Rudy Guiliani, pick up the white phone) serious
pains in the ass, the insanely addictive but nevertheless wholly
legitimized narcotic has killed hundreds and made thousands of doctors
across America look like the pushers they are. Billions of dollars
down the drain, another indelible blot on Pharma. Throw in some recent
guilty pleas from OxyCrack peddlers Purdue Frederick and you have a
seriously doped-up mea culpa.
Now, can someone remind me why pot is still illegal?
Seriously. I mean it. I'll take all comers, academic, polemic and
otherwise. Post it here. Hit me at href="http://www.morphizm.com/mission.html"
target="blank">Morphizm, if you like. I seriously can't wait to
read the dementia writ large. It should be a hoot.
Every time I read some Pharma trash like this, I can't help but rewind
Peter Tosh's aptly named legalization classic "Bush Doctor" in my
mind. And not just the beginning where Tosh lampoons the Surgeon
General's warning on cigarettes, but rather the part that counsels:
"It can build up your failing economy [and] eliminate the slavish
mentality."
And what are OxyCrack addicts but slaves to highs delivered by pushers
trafficking in beatdowns and billions, in pursuit of profit margins at
the expense of health? If killing your pain by dying altogether isn't
the dumbest prescription ever written, then I don't know what is. As
for Tosh's crack on the economy of drug addiction, Purdue is shelling
out $634.5 million in fines, to along with the billions already
diseased by the doomed enterprise, and that's probably not even
crunching the numbers found in OxyCrack's black market.
Can someone remind me why growing your own pot, or buying some from
the increasing number of dispensaries around the world, is a less
suitable economic alternative? For the Big Bang's sake, I can buy an
eigth of weed in Los Angeles for what it costs to buy a single
Oxycrack tablet found on href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycontin" target="blank">the Gold
Coast black market. Why shouldn't I be able to, when the option I
am offered by my doctor -- who's probably been lunching on Pharma's
dime as they stock him or her up with OxyCrack pens, clocks and free
samples -- is more or less equivalent to what I'd get if I just jumped
out the window? It makes no sense at all.
Well, it does, but that's when the haters start rolling their eyes.
Criminalizing cannabis, as it is known in scientific circles, is a
serious industry, from the bonanzas for over-the-counter drugs like
OxyCrack to the police and prison industries designed and dedicated to
imprisoning potheads and dealers all the way down to funding the
stoopid science of the target="blank">ONDCP and onward. Let's not be mistaken, the War on
Drugs, like the equally stoopid War on Terror, is just another
economic takeover disguised as a moral campaign. It's lunacy. And it
is probably the worst drug we'll ever take, aiming for a high -- um, I
mean victory -- that is not only unachievable but abstract to the
point of irrelevance. That is, if it didn't cost so much money and so
many lives.
So yeah, get to it. Remind me why pot is illegal, and why Oxycrack had
a massive pharmaceutical, medical and political machine helping it
peddle addiction and death to rednecks and radio hotshots. I'll make
sure to have a huge joint waiting, because hilarity is always more
hilarious when you're high. When you're dead? Not so much.