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Posted on 05/07/2005 4:11:43 AM PDT by Brainhose
Sounds like the arguments he's using for banning Oxycontin are the same arguments we hear over and over for the continued ban on medicinal marijuana. I pray this effort goes down in flames ... and takes Reefer Madness hysteria with it.
There are few if any medicines that work for every patient who tries them. Do you think your daughter's experience means that Oxycontin should be banned?
Lynchie is grabbing a headline. We just had a local Oxy robbery...where the pharmacist pulled his OWN gun (an armed citizen in Mass...Horrors!) and gunshots ensued in the store. Big local splash, so he has to say something to be "relevant" to the nitwits in his district. Oxy-related crime is big news in Mass. so naturally, let's have a knee-jerk reaction!
No, I certainly don't think it should be banned. If it helps someone deal with pain then I'm all for it. I was just relating a personal experience.
As another poster mentioned I'm surprised that this was offered up by Lynch. He is a Democrat but he's a whole lot better than 99% of the Dems here in MA.
They definatly are a bigger threat to our nation.
Lay off the crack dude! All Mass legislators want to control your life. Just because one in particular isn't as bad as Teddy doesn't mean that he is your savior.
Where did that com from? My point was he is the best of the worst. Which in my opinion is the truth.
Funny he doesn't have the same zeal about shutting down bars in his home town, South Boston. We all know that the members of a certain ethnic group to which he belongs become instantly addicted to alcohol. /sarcasm
To be precise, opiates like oxycontin are PLEASURABLE by nature. They are illegal by human arbitrary decision - they were legal all XIX century (and ALL centuries before!) and the society did not collapse.
The hedonists and pleasure seekers who use opiates are lawless now, but they were not lawless before.
So what is the exactly evil about opiates apart from their "lawlessness"? Are these other evils worse that the destruction of lives caused by the prison system? Are they worse than the pain of the sick deprived of their medications?
Was the prohibition of alcohol a good thing? Is the fight against tobacco a good thing? Is the banning of meat and mandatory vegetarianism (the next noble agenda) a good thing?
I think that you were reading something in what I wrote that I did not intend. I think that if I want a bottle of laudenum (sp?) then I should be able to go to the corner store and buy it. If I have a major toothache, and can't get to the dentist for a couple of days, I should be able to go to the store and buy a small amount of cocaine. I consider myself a responsible person. The fact that I knew better than to continue to take a narcotic, even though I was in pain, substantiates this. I do not like the government assuming that I am not a responsible person, and then legislating according to that incorrect assumption.
I think that the reason that opiates were made illegal in the first place was because so many things contained them that people were becoming addicted to a narcotic without even realizing that they were taking one. It is one thing to have free will and make your own decisions on whether or not to take a drug. It is another thing entirely for people to become addicted to a narcotic through no fault of their own.
He is just like the rest of these retards in Congress from Massachusetts. Totally unprincipled.
Many people are addicted to coffee. Or to eating fancy food. Or to reading books. Or to jogging. Or to fishing. What about the people who just want to be addicted?
Mencken once said: "A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun."
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And that insulin stuff? Yeah, people start taking it, and they never stop. We gotta stop that stuff too. Yeah.
Will these freakin people never stop? Vioxx worked like a miracle for me, until some clowns stopped taking it according to prescrition. Then Bextra worked--but they stopped that too.
Pain patients--we're all faking it for the drugs.
Bastards.
If he was talking about marijuana, conservatives would jump for joy.
got that right.
Well...ya know, better thousands of people suffer with agonizing pain than one person become addicted.
And who better qualified to make that decision than a highly educated politician?
I don't think quaaludes were prescribed for pain..they were sleeping pills, I think. I don't really think they had any real medical purpose!
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