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Doctors As Dealers

Jacob Sullum | 6.8.2005 10:45 AM

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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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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason.

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  1. good idea   20 years ago

    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.

  2. maestro   20 years ago

    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?

  3. Swede   20 years ago

    "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.

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