Posted on 07/08/2003 2:31:17 PM PDT by presidio9
Ozzy Osbourne may have weathered the lowest lows that drug addiction has to offer, but the news that his son Jack was seeking treatment for substance abuse taught him a lesson that his own decades of addiction never did.
"I used to think they should legalize pot, but you know what? They should ban the lot," Osbourne told MTV News, addressing Jack's battle for the first time. "One thing leads to another. Coffee leads to Red Bull, Red Bull leads to crank.
"When I found out the full depth of him getting into OxyContin, which is like hillbilly heroin, I was shocked and stunned," Osbourne continued. "The thing that's amazing was how rapidly he went from smoking pot to doing hillbilly heroin."
Ozzy's son entered a California rehabilitation facility in April to battle what was later revealed to be an addiction to the prescription painkiller OxyContin (see "Jack Osbourne Reveals He Was Addicted To Painkiller OxyContin"). Jack also said that he was drinking and using a variety of substances — including Vicodin, Valium, Xanax, Dilaudid, Lorcet, Lortab, Percocet and marijuana — before his trip to rehab (see "Rehab Helps Jack Osbourne Get To Root Of Addiction Problems").
Jack's laundry list of controlled substances made his father painfully aware of just how readily available drugs are. "When I started doing drugs years ago, they were hard to get, but today it's everywhere," Osbourne said. "It's not just America. It's not just California. It's not just Beverly Hills. It's not just downtown New York. It's not just London. It's all over the world" (see "All About OxyContin, The Pills Known As 'Killers' ").
This relatively easy access to allegedly "controlled" substances is especially hard for Ozzy to swallow given his firsthand experience with the damage that drugs can do.
"I'm 55 years old, and I didn't get off scot-free," Osbourne explained. "I have to take medication for the rest of my life because I've done so much neurological damage to my body," Osbourne said.
We'll have much more from our interviews with Ozzy and Jack in an "MTV News Now" special report, premiering Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET/PT (Jack's complete interview will appear on MTVNews.com when the show premieres). The show will be followed the next day by a repeat of MTV News' "True Life: I'm Hooked on OxyContin" at 6:30 p.m.
In high school, it was easier to find someone who'd sell you pot than it was to get your hands on booze. With the booze, you need that fake ID stuff, but when you're dealing with a black market like pot, no one asks for ID. Or put another way -- I've been denied purchase of alcohol. I've never been denied purchase of pot.
So much for your fantasies.
Beer commercials are evil?
If you promote "use", you are advocating evil.
Kindly point out where MrLeRoy has either advocated use of illegal drugs or promoted the same.
The journal SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN [4] cited a study of workers at two utility companies: Utah Power & Light and Georgia Power Company.
The JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE [5] published a study that found "no difference between drug-positive and drug-negative em- ployees."
Yeah, those stoners at Scientific American and Journal of Internal Medicine don't know what they are talking about, do they.
Sorry Sport, I'll take the word of established and respectable scientific and medical periodicals over that of you and your pal Axel any day.
If you're going to talk about the Constitution, you should disclose your own constitutional philosophy, IMO
Didn't you write that laws passed by Congress should carry the force of a constitutional amendment because, otherwise, we would need thousands of amendments?
Please correct me if I am wrong on your position.
These all happen more with your pro-addiction stance
Already de-bunked in post 1317.
I could probably de-bunk the other baseless claims you made as well, but you get the idea.
I stand by my assertion that he is a 13 year-old living at home.
This tidbit just reinforces my belief.
Ohh and take a look at this fine report: Terror War Affecting Drug Seizures, Lawmaker Says
According to my calculations if we spent $40 billion for the WOD in 2000 then we spent $2,000,000 a junkie, what a deal!!.
Why don't you just be honest for once on this thread and admit that you belive anal rape in jail should be standard punishment for anyone thrown in jail for using/possessing marijuana?
I did answer,
No, you did not.
when you advocate evil as a regular practice of a right as in the vice drugs, you are promoting evil.
I am not asking about advocating the practice of a right.
If you promote "use", you are advocating evil.
I am not asking about promoting "use".
If you promote the reading of Marxist literature
I am not asking about promoting the reading of Marxist literature.
The question, again, which you STILL have NOT answered: If I support the right to read Marxist literature, am I "backing" Marxist literature?
Which of the two mentioned respectable periodicals does the gentleman write for?
I do not support drug usage, I support the relegalization of drug usage---just as I do not support reading Marxist literature, I support the continued legality of reading Marxist literature.
BTW, I'd appreciate your list of heroin main-lining FReepers, when you get the chance.
You must have missed most of the same names on some of the AWB sunset threads.
But of course, you being from California and all that, you must be in favor of continuing the Assault Weapons Ban.
After all, GW is for extending the ban, so it must be the right thing to do.
Many discussions with the pro WOD side are not so much reasoned debate, but a game of dodge ball.
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