Posted on 01/29/2002 7:31:58 AM PST by Buzznutt
nope. 2nd degree felony... xanax is schedule IV controlled substance in chapter 893 (see post #306)... to wit...
FSS 893.03 Standards and schedules...
(4) SCHEDULE IV.--A substance in Schedule IV has a low potential for abuse relative to the substances in Schedule III and has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and abuse of the substance may lead to limited physical or psychological dependence relative to the substances in Schedule III. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation, are controlled in Schedule IV:
(a) Alprazolam
FSS 893.149 Unlawful possession of listed chemical.-- (1) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly or intentionally: (a) Possess a listed chemical with the intent to unlawfully manufacture a controlled substance; (b) Possess or distribute a listed chemical knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that the listed chemical will be used to unlawfully manufacture a controlled substance. (2) Any person who violates this section is guilty of a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
I'd be wary of crediting Marichards with anything she said. She used gag writers for her speeches.
Lily Tomlin's gag writer coined the "born with a silver foot in his mouth" for use against former President Bush.
If she said "shrub" first, it still could have been coined by Molly or someone else giving her an assist.
I agree that his financial connections through that company to such figures as Clinton supporter Jackson Stephens and Salem bin-Laden do look suspicious, however:
In the West Texas energy business, George W. Bush started out researching who owned mineral rights. He later traded mineral and royalty interests and invested in drilling prospects. He had started his own oil and gas company by 1978, taking $17,000 from his education trust fund to set up Arbusto Energy (arbusto means Bush in Spanish). The company fell on hard times when oil prices fell. He made several attempts to revive the business, first by changing the company's name and later by merging with other companies.
In 1983, Bush’s company was rescued from failure when Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation, a small oil firm owned by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds, bought it. Bush became chief executive officer. Harken Energy Corporation acquired Spectrum 7 in 1986, after Spectrum had lost $400,000. In the buyout deal, Bush and his partners were given more than $2 million worth of Harken stock for the 180-well operation. Bush became a director and was hired as a "consultant" to Harken. He received another $600,000 of Harken stock, and has been paid between $42,000 and $120,000 a year. By the spring of 1987, Harken was in need of cash. So Bush and his fellow Harken officials met with Jackson Stephens, head of Stephens, Inc., an investment bank in Little Rock, Arkansas (Stephens contributed $100,000 to the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980 and gave another $100,000 to the Bush dinner committee in 1990.) Stephens arranged for Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to provide $25 million to Bush’s company in return for a stock interest in Harken.
As part of the deal, Sheikh Abdullah Bakhsh, a Saudi real estate tycoon and financier, joined Harken's board as a major investor. Stephens, UBS, and Bakhsh each had ties to the infamous, scandal-ridden Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). In 1990, Bush sold his remaining stock options and left the oil business. Writer Jack Colhoun revealed some details of that stock sale, referring to Bush by his childhood nickname “Junior”:
On June 22, 1990, George Jr. sold two-thirds of his Harken stock for $848,560-a cool 200 percent profit. The move was well timed. One week after Junior sold his stock, Harken announced a $23.2 million loss in quarterly earnings and Harken stock dropped sharply, losing 60 percent of its value over the next six months. On August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops moved into Kuwait and 541,000 U.S. forces were deployed to the Gulf.
"There is substantial evidence to suggest that Bush knew Harken was in dire straits in the weeks before he sold the $848,560 of Harken stock," asserted U.S. News & World Report. The magazine noted Harken appointed Junior to a 'fairness committee' to study possible economic restructuring of the company. Junior worked closely with financial advisers from Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company, who concluded "only drastic action could save Harken."
A year earlier, in 1989, Bush prepared for his move from the oil business to the sports business when he helped assemble a group who purchased the Texas Rangers baseball team from Eddie Chiles. He and Rusty Rose served as managing general partners until Bush was elected Governor of Texas in 1994.
No, clymer, that's oxytocin. Are you hoping to pin some more on the girl? Oxycotin is for pain.
And again, you are wrong if you think that if the press had police reports naming Chelsea Clinton in hand, or photos in hand of Chelsea Clinton falling down drunk, that they would not have run them. Trust me, I've been in the business for more than a quarter-century. It would have happened, regardless of any protestation from the White House. All the columnists, pundits, etc., would've fussed about it ... that's where Billy and Hilly would've called in their chips ... but as far as an everyday news decision by the working stiffs in the newsroom, that stuff would've been in the paper.
Which as I said in another response here, begs the question as to whether Chelsea had the good sense, either from her own intuition or because of drilling by her parents and their handlers, to know her stopping point and to never let herself completely go to the point of not realizing that photographers could lurk behind every pillar.
One of the funniest things that happened when I worked in a pharmacy was one night I had a guy come in complaining of severe pain and could he please please please have one Percodan? He got laughed out of the store. But that happens more often than not. We'd have customers bring in a bottle for pain pills or sleeping meds right before closing, no refills. Sometimes we'd give them one to get them through the night, and call the doctor in the morning.
Oh, this is nice. You accuse me of getting my panties in a twist while ignoring the hypersensitive ravings of ReaganMan, who I just dispatched with some ease. You say that you don't care what I call the President, yet you cared enough to make this post. What's wrong? Panties in a twist? ReaganMan's argument was so hollow that you now feel compelled to become Mr. Net Nanny 'cause he can't hack it?
As for your pro-Republican bona fides... I have better things to do than remember everyones exact political leanings. I would think most others do too. Please don't post expecting everyone to be aware of every post you have ever made.
In other words, you don't want to because you know that that is an argument that you would lose, and lose badly. So you neatly shift the argument to the "I have better things to do that simple research" assertion as if that would defeat my central argument.
Which it does not.
Try again, Monday.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Section9, I know that you are a good Freeper, but have always thought your use of the word was unwise, because of it's connections. Using it in the middle of an inflamed controversy like this one, in which a lot of people who don't know you are posting, and in which a number of DU disrupters are posting, was not well-considered, because it leads to this kind of misunderstanding. All a lot of them know about you is that you used a term for the President which nearly everyone else on earth uses as a term of contempt. So they misunderstood you, it happens.
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