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.
No but there is a terrorist you are supporting somewhere.
But it was your logic, not Ozzy's. Keep laughing dude - remember Ozzy says coffee leads to crank and Ozzy is always right.
For those of you who missed the Presidio9 show here's a recap. These are all quotes from P9 except in parenthesis
It starts with the assumption that P9 has no intent of actually trying to refute the data or even discuss the article he posted, only to bump the headline. And he does this while casting insults on anyone who would like to discuss the article.
I have no interest refuting the case
I'm just looking to bump this article
I don't have time to read all of your posts. I'm just looking to keep bumping this article
If you want a response from me, you gotta post from me. It's easy.
Your question does not warrant a response
it is impossible for me to spend much time responding
I have a whole bag of stock answers
giving online wedgies to halfwits like yourself
you sound like a jackass
Gee you crankwhores are wacky
Are you still here? Talk to the hand
Then he continues to harp on how alcohol being legal and dangerous is no case for legalizing any other drug. He thinks alcohol is not a drug, Admits there are inconsistencies in the law but doesn't care. For the alcohol case that he continues to ignore, see my post 414.
alcohol ISN'T a drug. It's already legal
The War on Drugs is not Prohibition
As I've pointed out from a marketing and distribution standpoint, Pot and alcohol are apples and oranges
Where I come from, pot is much easier for underage kids to obtain
you can not make a convincing case for why we need legalized drugs so you stick to pointing out other inconsistencies (the inconsistancies make the case)
When you come up with a single legitimate reason for legalizing marijuana we'll take your cause seriously (well the inconsistancies in the law are one)
The laws are full of inconsistencies. The idea that society will be somehow more just if we legalize yet another damaging controlled substance is goofy
legalizing pot will make cheesburgers stop being harmful. Either that or we need to outlaw cheesburgers dammit
There is no such thing as common sense. They have to have a law for everything, right?
He fails to see any correlation between pot and alcohol, but has no trouble making the leap from pot to slavery and abortion.
Denied access to drugs is the same type of civil liberties crime as slavery
The pro-drug logic is EXACTLY the same as the pro-abortion logic
The legalize drugs logic employs exaclty the same logic as the legalize abortion logic
Trying to encorporate legalized drugs into a conservative society is the height of stupidity
My answers have been quite simple and entirely rational
He claims his self-righteousness by volunteering in a rehab clinic.
Sorry jackass. I volunteer on weekends while you are off getting baked
I work with drug addicts in the South Bronx
am more concerned about potential drug users than the currently addicted (then why do you volunteer with addicts?)
If you are concerned with human life you should spend your energy trying to get booze outlawed, not pot legalized
If you think alcohol is bad for you, spend your energy getting it outlawed.
He can't keep his story strait
There are no bootleggers for the same reason that minors favor drugs to alcohol. Alcohol is bulky
OK there are alcohol bootleggers
A few well organized drug users (but I thought drug users were dolts? how can they be well organized?)
Two wrongs don't make a right. Gawd you Libertoonians are silly
Drugs had no effect on Osborn. Two wrongs make a right
I have not lied once hippie
He has vast experience with drugs, so he should turn himself over to the authorities now.
$1,000 worth of pot fits neatly in my pocket
Notice that I have had very little to say on "drugs." I'm sure that I know as much as you do
I have as much experience with drugs, their effects and the law enforcement associated with them as anyone else on this thread
I saved my favorites for last. Enjoy...
I'm not concerned so much with the violation of rights
I am adult enough to recognize where government intervention is necessary
I love personal freedoms
Right. Let's get rid of our military too. That's smaller government
there is a terrorist you are supporting somewhere
I would never "join the company" of a sad loser like Ozzy (except you have by posting this article)
But since this thread has awakened the usual pro-job nutcases I can make no promises.
the only people who read 900 post threads that keep repeating themselves really ARE on drugs. Which is why people like you participate so enthusiastically in threads like this (pot, kettle, black)
When most drug sales are legalized, those who make money selling drugs illegally will be forced to expand their target market
My answers have been quite simple and entirely rational
sustentative
Wassamatter? The "husband" wants round 2?
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