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Downey is exibit "A" on why we should NOT legalize drugs...but leave it you you third party sensitive types to climb upon someone's addicted and use it for you anti-WOD soap box...like Harry Browne did with the smoldering ash of the Twin Towers...you guys have no class...and NO political acumene...There is nothing hypocritical about opposing legalization if YOU YOURSELF are evidence of the damage done by drugs.

But there is something very slimy about chasing every ambulance and using the suffering subject as your backdrop to further your insane cult-like rants about the WOD.

More on Neil..this is the actual comments he made when a viewer wrote in to the show that He had MS.

Tuesday, September 03, 2002
By Neil Cavuto

Speaking of attitude, I've been getting quite a bit of e-mail these last few days over a People magazine profile of me in its latest edition. Not all of it good.

Terry R. e-mails:

"Why is it I have to read in People that you have multiple sclerosis, and are a cancer survivor? I suffer from MS and am a nobody. You have this great platform and never use it to help the rest of us who suffer so much. You seem like a nice guy, Neil, but after reading this, I'm disappointed."

I'm sorry you feel that way, Terry. I don't think I hide from my MS. I mention it, when appropriate, as when I'm talking to the CEO of the company, whose drugs I take to fight it. But that's it.

As I told People magazine, I'm not a platform or a cause. The best way I can help people with this disease, is prove you can move on, despite this disease.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: We all bear our crosses in life. Some are heavier than others -- many are a lot heavier than mine.

But I'd rather be defined by what I do, not what I have. So why bloviate on what I have?

And seeing as I seem to collect diseases, why should I be partial to one over another?

I'm an optimist at heart, Terry. And my optimistic way of helping those with disabilities is to prove to the world that we are greater than the sum of our disabilities.

You can't preach that. You have to live that.

I choose the latter.

You see, Terry, I firmly believe you can take a stand without standing on a soapbox.

What do you think? Send your comments to: cavuto@foxnews.com. And watch Neil Cavuto's Common Sense weekdays at 4 p.m. ET on Your World w/Cavuto.

Downey is exibit "A" on why we should NOT legalize drugs

And why is that? Why cant he eat whatever junk he wants and veg in the basement? Why not? What happened to Life, Liberty, and the persuit of happiness?

But doo-gooders who feel compelled to control others have sent us down this slippery WOD slide where a good man has been sent to the crapper by the likes of you. All you rascally totalitarians who dont like selective vegetables should hope that pain does not visit you. Eating opiates, even a lot of opiates, does not necessarily impair your ability to function in our society. Rush is now the poster boy for clean productive folks who eat opiates.

Even Robert Downey was making $$$ on films and TV while gorked on whatever. But thats not OK for a lot of people who cant stand that others can run their own lives - you gotta get in there and try and control them.

Ok so the persuit of happiness has to go, whats next?