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Misc the Legalization of Prescription Drugs!

Dr.Who

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> "Legalization" or "Decriminalization" issues are problematic for Prescription Drugs, because most of them are already viewed as legal, althou this is far from reality. Pills are harder to obtain that Pot or coke. Just trying to score a handful of Hydergine pills from your local "illegal" drug dealer... Smack? Sure! Seldane? What might that be? By being available only thru the guiding hand of proper state-approved, state-monitored authorities, Pharmaceuticals are thought of as a "Controlled Substances" & not illegal.

> This twilight world of qusi-legality means pharmaceuticals are seldom addressed during "drug-legalization" debates ( it's usually medical mary-wanna! ) & Counter-culture types are among the first to swallow the hoax that pills need no "decriminalization" and almost never agitate for the liberation of codeine, digitalis, penicillin, soma, valium or Thousands of other drugs!

> The same problem affects over-the-counter drugs that which are regularly banned ( illegalized ) by administrative command!

> When such old stand-bys as.. Donnagel p g, Ex-Lax, Primatine, Sudafed or quinine pills are out-lawed, it is hardly mentioned in the news, even thou people's ability to self-medicate has been curtailed. Anyone who doubts the manifest illegality of pharmaceuticals need only consider that "dangerous" or "recreational" drugs are not the only type of prescription drug under police control. Far less than half the medicines obtainable by prescription only contain "controlled substances".

> But all prescription drugs are policed by the armies of the state & it's not a question of safety. the acetominophen in your pain-pills might ruin your liver if you wash them down with a six-pack, but such health hazards are not the issue! the state's interest lies somewhere else - with the enforced separation between citizen & medicine!

> Even if you couldn't possibly be hurt or hurt anyone else with them, most pills are by prescription only. As a prescription drug Federal Law prohibits damn near anything but full compliance with the parent/child relationship the government demands. There are Jail cells waiting for those who would blaspheme the state by possessing or transferring a bottle of Amoxicillin as well as a bottle of Xanax!!!

> On a personal level... the ability to withhold or supply medicine means the government assumes control of ( but not Responsibility for ) sickness & health. Bureaucrats ( not even elected to office ) now decide How Much PAIN a Citizen must endure - not the patient and not the physician! This is suppose to "protect" consumers from sliding into drug addiction & wanton, blasphemous self-medication! After all the DEA knows whats best for you, not you or your doctor!

> Since we have allowed ourselves to be brainwashed and intimidated into giving the state power over medicine this seems like an inevitable reality. But, should we ever stop playing along with this government invented game, the crucial power of Social Control would disappear from government's hands!
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To be honest, there has been a *noticeable* shift in conversation on the Drug That Is The Problem. Prescription drug abuse is now The Problem, no question.

Things are so much different than the 1980s, when it was cocaine / crack / heroin, and you could produce frying egg PSAs and make buddy cop movies where they go and Fight Crime against Evil Drug Overlords from strange sounding foreign lands. Now, the source of addictive drugs more often than not comes from Big Pharma itself. Benzos have their advocates and abusers, Adderall is quietly shifted around to college crammers everywhere, and the synthetic opiates especially (oxycodone being the most notorious) have been known to destroy small towns. They are legal. They are American Business. The execs look like nice American WASPs in their suits and ties.

Even music can't get away from this trend. The latest drug to sweep into music was not something outright illegal, but "purple drank" / "sizzurp" (prescription cough syrup with codeine).

I think that the industries that thrive on good scare stories (Hollywood entertainment, your local news) are a bit confused by this development.

Maybe this development will eventually change how we think of drugs, drug culture, and drug abuse. Too often I think that the demonization of psychoactive compounds has been, in part, driven by cultural paradigm and cultural clash. I certainly for a start think what's going on out there is really helpful for the arguments regarding certain Schedule I compounds. (For instance, given what's going on, how can *anyone* tell me with a straight face why cannabis is Schedule I and oxycodone is Schedule II?)
 
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