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Originally posted by quietman1920:
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Originally posted by khazadman:
Sounds like the Hollywood Left like Al Frankin and Tim Robbins are serious users of the stuff.
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While that may be true, they haven't made these statements:
"I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say people are going to do drugs anyway let's legalize it. It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea and those who are for it are purely 100 percent selfish."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993
"If(Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them.
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993
"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995
So, anyone in London volunteering to take Rush? Going once... Going twice... [/QUOTE]While I am for the legalization of some drugs and disagree with those stances to some degree, I'll note that the rest of what he's said in these statements is true. They were made before his addiction began as well.
It's not like he was going out to get high and got addicted from parting too much. If that is proven to be true during the investigation, it will certainly change my opinion of these developments, but I know it's far too common an occurrence for people who are legitimately prescribed medications to become addicted.