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Do you really want the drugs Rush was taking sold over the counter without controls? Yes.

I don't, and if Rush continued to oppose this it still wouldn't make him a hypocrite.

The reason why these drugs are controlled is because they are addicting. Decent, productive people could -- would, actually -- be encouraged to buy these drugs and keep buying them to the benefit of the seller/manufacturor.

You want to make a case that those who buy the drugs shouldn't be criminals I might go along. It might even be a better mode of fighting drug abuse since maybe then they could start filing civil lawsuits against the dealers.

I don't, and if Rush continued to oppose this it still wouldn't make him a hypocrite.

So he's just weak? He's powerless? He can't practice what he preaches?

Lemme get this straight -- if Rush came on the air, and said that Oxycontin should be STRICTLY controlled, with abusers of those controls sent to prison, he wouldn't be a hypocrite if he scored Oxycontin and didn't turn himself in? I'm having a hard time with this logic.

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.