DrugBuyers.Com: BED OF PAIN OR QUALITY OF LIFE

I find this issue facinating. It makes me wonder about the sanity of this country, picking on people with legitimate medical conditions. But why now is the war on drugs focusing on prescripton drugs? Is it because a famous governors daughter got caught forging a script? Or that famous movie stars are taking opiates for recreation? Someone should tell the government officials that are against these drugs, that the drugs themselves aren't the cause of the problems these people are having. The drugs didn't make Jeb Bushs daughter commit forgery. Most likely that is a genetic weakness (dosent' addiction run in their family). Why are opiates being blamed for the fatal weaknesses of some unfortunate people? To me that is as stupid as the lawsuit against McDonalds that some obese people filed, saying that McDonalds made them fat. No-your lack of willpower made you fat, not the product. Its just like the Oxycontin issue the media is blowing-up. A few people who have no business having them in the first place OD, and all of a sudden, legitimate pain patients are placed under scruitiny for taking it.

The thing that kills me, is the way the media is relaxing its standards about other, illicit, drug use. Nowadays on TV, movies and videos, marijuana use is common, even glorified. I mean, my six year-old son thinks that weed is not any worse than cigarettes. He got this idea from his friends at school and the TV. Not that I think that marijuana is really harmful-it dosen't really hurt anyone and isn't addicting-but its still illegal. As far as I know, Vicoden, Valium and Oxycontin are not. In one day of watching TV, I saw three news channel "specials" about prescription drug use and "oxycontin." They talk about a patient taking an oxy pill like he was downing speedballs. While at the same time, "Friday"(a movie about smoking weed) is on a regular channel which any kid can see. I just don't understand the hypocracy thats going on. I really think that since the government has never made any real ground on winning the drug war, they decided to go after an easier target: legal prescription drugs. Do you know what I think the real crime is? The real drug problem is the millions of people who can't afford to pay for their prescrption medication.