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"but there are places all over America where it happens all the time"

Really? You can name cases where prosecuters spent the public's money going after a former user after they went through treatment and are now clean??? Please list one of these that is happening all the time. The fact is, is has never happened....

Are you as naive about other things, as well.

I will not name names but I will say that I am an attorney and I have clients right now who are still being prosecuted after they went to rehab and I have clients in rehab right now hoping the prosecutor will take into consideration that they are getting help for their problem. It is common for people accused of drug crimes to seek rehab.

Now, I do not represent anyone who hasn't been charged with a crime yet, but I don't see a great deal of difference in cases where the person has already been charged and a case where someone who is obviously under suspicion of a crime takes steps that might help him if he is charged. I can see how a prosecutor could reasonably argue that the rehab was too little too late.

Don't get me wrong though, I think this prosecutor is going extra hard on Rush because he is Rush. I'm just trying to correct a misconception you have. I don't know what makes you think prosecutors are all such kind caring people or that the laws are set up to go easy on drug addicts who seek help. I live in a part of the country where low level drug offenders often receive harsher treatment than people who have done much worse crimes like sex offenses, aggravated assaults, thefts and so on. Some of the prosecutors around here might be swayed by the fact that a drug defendant has gotten treatment, others would say the guy should have gotten the treatment before he got caught. I can hear them making the comparison now about how wife beaters should get the anger management classes before they beat their wives, or how the hot check writer should have taken credit counseling before she wrote all the hot checks.

You woefully misinformed about the way low level drug crimes are handled in this country. I'm not faulting you for that because you probably never had a reason to know much about how these cases are handled but it's good that you understanding of these things is being challenged now and I hope you'll take a little time to look into the way low level drug crimes are treated in America. I think you will be surprised at what you will learn and I think it's always good when people finally see how crazy our drug laws and enforcement of them can be in this country. That's the only way we'll ever get them reformed.