I strongly disagree with your view on the Rush situation. Rush is a drug addict. It looks like he's broken many drug laws for many years. There are hundreds of thousands of people in jails and prisons all over this country as we speak whose lives have been destroyed because of the legal consequences of their non-violent use, purchase or sale of controlled substances (including prescription drugs). Rush has passionately advocated the drug war for as long as I have been aware of him.
Rush, like thousands of heroin addicts, millions of cocaine users, and tens of millions of marijuana users in this nation, was able to support his habit and practice his trade effectively for many years. But now he's been caught and it is very hypocritical for drug warriors to advocate anything less for Rush than what has happened to the millions of previous drug war victims... destroy his reputation, ruin him financially, try him, convict him and throw him into prison with murders, rapists, thieves and all the other scum of society that really belong behind bars.
When (if) he gets out, if he's still a WOD advocate, maybe I'll re-think my view that the drug problem in this country is 95% drug war, 5% drug abuse and 0% responsible recreational drug use by the vast majority of those who use either legal or illegal drugs (like Rush, apparently).