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How can anyone have an opinion yet? Half of the world would conspire to bring Rush down; let's see how things work out.

In any case, addiction to medication is by definition a need or craving that is strong enough to overwhelm one's willpower or the body's ability to do without it. A person who becomes an addict has a medical problem, and we need not to lose sight of that. Medical problems ought not to be criminalized. Perhaps Rush will become the poster child of drug decriminalization, by his own example. Worse things have happened.

7 posted on 12/24/2003 4:26:59 AM PST by Tax Government
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One of those liberal rantings about substance abuse being a disease. No it is not. It is a behavioral problem. There can develop physical problems with the chronic consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances but these processes arose after the behavioral problem of choosing to hide in a drug stupor was already well established.

Drunk driving should not be a felony, it is a problem for medicare.

236 posted on 12/24/2003 9:37:20 AM PST by RWG
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