Doctors As Dealers

University of North Florida political scientist Ronald Libby offers a thorough review of the government's entanglement with pain treatment in a new Cato Institute paper. Reason has covered the conflict between drug control and pain control here, here, and here, among other places.

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[good idea]

Unless and until we put Rush Limbaugh behind bars--thereby proving our commitment to equal enforcement of these moronic laws--we will never be able to precipitate the necessary changes required for a rational, compassionate, and just drug policy.

Capture and imprison Rush today.

[maestro]

FREE RUSH!

No, please don't put Rush in prison! I have no clue where I'll get my next fix from if you put the main dealer on my block in jail.

"rational, compassionate and just" and "drug policy"? I would ask what are you smoking, but that would be just too easy on this topic.

But I digress - Good Idea, I completely agree with you, where is the equal enforcement? Isn't that part of what calls into question the legitimacy of our nation's drug control policy - the rampant hypocrisy that characterizes the rules and those who enforce them?

How about a policy that deals with the reality of the illegal drug situation in our country?

[Swede]

"How about a policy that deals with the reality of the illegal drug situation in our country?"

What would that be exactly? There are so many possible avenues for reform, and I am curious which ones everybody feels are the most realistic and which ones are not doable but would be ideal.