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What's new? The War on Some Drugs continues. For some strange reason being a heroin addict is considered a character flaw but being an SSRI junkie is considered respectable. The main difference between the two is that the govt and drug companies can't monopolize the production of heroin and would lose billions in profit and taxes.

Our society pretends to be against drugs but pushes them down throats at an early age and never lets up. Those "Drug Free Zone" signs on the schools really crack me up. In Utah 20% of the kids are on speed and half the teachers are on Valium.

And how many stinking drug commercials do you see on the tube? The latest scam is "non-addictive" sleep drugs. Yeah right. Heroin was originally sold as a "non-addictive" replacement for morphine. You can certainly believe the drug hawkers. Fen-Phen anyone?

 

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We can go a step further here. The elderly are at least as dangerous as drunks and many are on so many medications that they are only barely sane. Yet any attempt to require more frequent testing of the elderly is met with a storm of self-righteous anger from the AARP, as if someone has the God given to endanger everyone else just because they reach the age of 70.

I've come far closer to being wiped out by doddering old coots on their way to church (or barreling down the road in their motor homes) than any number of m/cers who had a couple of beers.

 

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If you've never seen...

BTW, are you cursing that beer can in your avatar or what???

..."Stone Cold" then you've never seen the Cadillac of biker movies, dude. William Forsyth rules!