[LittleJoe]

Decent, productive people could -- would, actually -- be encouraged to buy these drugs and keep buying them to the benefit of the seller/manufacturor

They already are being encouraged. Pain management is the fastest growing industry in America.

None of the new marketed drugs are more effective than heroin and most of them are more addictive than heroin.

That is why doctors in the UK have returned to using heroin instead of the more addictive American wonder drugs.

Our problem is not marijuana or coke. It is prescribed medications that the pharmaceutical industry profits from.

We are shown statistics that lead us to believe that we have millions of drug abusers. If you subtract the addicts of prescribed drugs, you don't have enough left to support a War On Drugs.

It certainly looks like the pharmaceutical industry is trying to hook as many as it can, knowing that these people will have to go to illegal drugs when they are cut off.

This not only makes money for the drug companies, it supports the War On Drugs.

I may be wrong, but I doubt it.

[GeronL]

That is why doctors in the UK have returned to using heroin instead of the more addictive American wonder drugs

That and its cheaper for the always underfunded NHS

[Tribune7]

It certainly looks like the pharmaceutical industry is trying to hook as many as it can, knowing that these people will have to go to illegal drugs when they are cut off.

You have a point.