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 your case that would be dumbing up to the third grade.
More correctly: "Illegal pot is not 'Prohibition.'"
During Prohibition, a sizable majority disagreed with the law. That is not the case here.
Are you talking about President Bush? Yep, people CAN grow up I guess.
Provide evidence for your claim.
Ozzy's diet has no efect on those around him. Next?
Provide evidence for your claim.
For the purposes of the "legalize drugs" debate, it is not. Not that you have any other valid points except the fact that you like getting baked and you wish people would stop hassling you, but semantics is not going to get any laws changed.
Please provide evidence for your brain.
Another liberal Constitution-flusher. How nice.
For the purposes of the "legalize drugs" debate, it is not.
False---for the purposes of the "legalize drugs" debate, alcohol is an already-legal drug.
How about your family? (Lack of ambition - sitting around, not going to work. You know, the whole thing about money being needed for food and rent?)
LOL, I am afraid that I am no match for you. I better surrender to you now!
That was, after all, the point you chose to cut and paste.
This is idiotic. When YOU say "drugs" should be legalized, you are either not talking about alcohol, or you are being ignorant. Alcohol is already legal. Nobody denies that alcohol is a mind altering substance, ok? Put that one to rest. We refer to the banned substances as "drugs" for lack of a better term. Give us a new one and we'll use it. But you death-grip cling to the correct use of the term "drugs" is more childish than your constant requests for "evidence."
Wow! What a clever and original response! Did you think that one up all by yourself, or did you ask a three-year old to help you compose it?
In any case, you have once again proved that you have the edge over me in name calling, lack of debating ability, boorishness and complete irrelevance
Too bad your intellectual stature remains on a level with boiled peas.
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