the Legalization of Prescription Drugs!

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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 codine, 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, Primatene, 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!

> Remember... the Dangers of Not Having Medicine are Greater than the Dangers of Self-Medication!!!

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That's no shit. I talked to a guy who said he went to prison for buying too much cold medicine. When you buy certain types of cold meds here at places like Walgreen's or Walmart they don't have the actual boxes on the shelves. They have tags that you take up to the pharmacy counter, show them an ID, sign your name in a logbook and they give you the meds. There's a limit on how many boxes you can buy in a month, and they track the purchases by computer. The shitty thing is, if you reach your limit some places will sell to you anyway. And if you have a record with anything to do with meth (and this guy did), the cops will show up at your house and bust you for it. They call it "precursors" of meth. And he did some time for it. True, he was selling it to meth cookers, and he said he was getting $50 per box. But if they're going to all this trouble of tracking purchases of this stuff they need to be honest about it and just refuse to sell you any more once you've reached your limit. It's like Walgreen's is participating in a sting operation.