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.
I am just forcing you to live with the ramifications of your logic. Using YOUR logic: if pot leads to other illegal drugs, not using pot would keep one from ever using other illegal drugs.
Clearly you don't understand the requirements of a causal relationship. Your logic is lazy. Remember, all illegal drug users have ears therefore ears cause people to use illegal drugs (see how silly your logic is?). NOTE: I am pretty darn sure there are some illegal drug users that have not used pot but I am also pretty sure 99.99999% of all illegal drug users have ears therefore the causal relationship between ears and illegal drug use is far stronger then the “pot is a gateway drug” theory.
This shallow and witless comment of yours only goes to show the shallow and witless silly "Never, never land" quality of your arguments.
But like you, once a thread that I am pushing gets moved to the smokey backroom, I lose interest.
So go pull your own head out of your own lower gastrointestinal region. Or better yet, keep it there, you seem to get your best arguments from that area.
Absolutely not! Well... in your case, maybe. But then, it's only rape if you actually put up a fight, right?
LOL, I think that most of these anti-woddies, especially "Action NewsBill" will be on the bottom.
LOL, it was fun, se ya later.
I see you still haven't given up your belief that pot users should be raped in jail.
You are a demented man.
You do a fine service to your "cause".
BMHA
LOL, I think that most of these anti-woddies, especially "Action NewsBill" will be on the bottom.
Thanks for showing your true intentions here.
Abuse button has been hit by me, for the first time ever.
You two are not worth the time anymore .
Get lost, and don't EVER respond to me on FR EVER again.
Hey man, we said repeatedly that our sole intention was to get an unfavorable drugs article bumped as often as possible. How is it our fault that you chose to disregard that advice? That's like the a pot smoker getting angry with his pusher because he has become a lazy zombie who lives in his mom's basement.
Do not respond again.
I don't give a damn what your intentions were, you crossed over the line with your sick and disgusting remarks, and support of prison rape for fellow freepers.
The conflict is not whether to jail for private behavior; no conservative wants that.
Conservatives disagree whether smoking a bowl is private behavior, or a public risk.
Personally, I consider it private.
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