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 b0red5tiff
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 Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales 
#8089641 - 03/01/08 02:30 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/03/01/ap/washington/d8v4p8so0.txt
President Bush on Saturday urged Congress to pass legislation aimed at ending illegal sales of highly addictive prescription drugs on the Internet, citing a growing number of fatal overdoses.
Bush used his weekly radio address to highlight his administration's 2008 national drug control strategy, which the White House released Saturday. The strategy seeks a 10 percent cut in youth drug use with continued interdiction efforts such as random student drug testing, community outreach and screening and prevention at doctors' offices.
The president said that while an estimated 860,000 fewer young people are using drugs today than in 2001, the abuse of prescription drugs persists.
"Unfortunately, many young Americans do not understand how dangerous abusing medication can be, and in recent years, the number of Americans who have died from prescription drug overdoses has increased," Bush said.
One factor behind the trend is the availability of highly addictive prescription drugs on the Internet, he said.
"The Internet has brought about tremendous benefits for those who cannot easily get to a pharmacy in person," Bush said. "However, it has also created an opportunity for unscrupulous doctors and pharmacists to profit from addiction."
Bush's drug policy adviser, John Walters, said the government is now focusing its "supply, demand and prevention policies with the goal of seeing the same reductions that we have achieved for illegal `street' drugs."
A measure passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee last September seeks to stem the abuse of prescription drugs via the Internet. It requires that doctor meet with patients in person before prescribing medication and stiffens penalties for those who violate the rules. The bill awaits full Senate consideration.
"The damage can be done on a wide scale by a relatively small number of criminal actors here," Walters said. He mentioned cases of "rogue" Internet pharmacies that often do not require prescriptions or allow prescriptions to be faxed, making it easier for customers to forge documents or use it at multiple pharmacies.
"Our real task is to follow through," he said of the Senate legislation.
Bush, who is spending the weekend at his Texas ranch with the prime minister of Denmark, said that since 2001, the rate of youth drug abuse has dropped by 24 percent. He said young people's use of marijuana is down by 25 percent; their use of ecstasy has dropped by more than 50 percent; and their use of methamphetamine has declined by 64 percent.
Bush also called on entertainers and professional athletes to serve as role models for young people.
"People in the entertainment and sports industries serve as role models to millions of young Americans, and that comes with the responsibility to dispel the notion that drug abuse is glamorous and free of consequences," he said. "Teachers, pastors and parents also have an obligation to help young people develop the character and self-respect to resist drugs."
In the strategy report, the White House said a recent survey found steroid use among 8th, 10th and 12th graders combined was down from 2001 by 40 percent for use during lifetime, 42 percent for the past year and 22 percent for the past month. It attributed the decreases partly to U.S. support of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which coordinates international efforts to stem improper drug use in sports, as well as continuing efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on criminal trafficking of performance-enhancing drugs.
"The general public is becoming less tolerant of doping and is more aware of and concerned about its consequences," the report said. "People understand that what happens at the elite level of sport often has a trickle-down effect on children, who want to emulate sports stars."
Among the other goals outlined in the report:
_reduced diversion of prescription drugs and methamphetamine precursors.
_declines in Andean cocaine production and Afghan opium poppy production.
_reduced flow of illegal drugs across the border with Mexico.
_declines in domestic production and use of marijuana.
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 fapjack
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8089857 - 03/01/08 03:31 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well that sucks for all of those online pharmacies.
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: fapjack]
#8089989 - 03/01/08 04:09 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Can Bush leave office yet? You'd think he could get impeached for all the unconstitutional things he's done/ started.
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ExplosiveMango
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: nihilistism]
#8090178 - 03/01/08 04:54 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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cool! fake statistics!
the war on drugs must be working!
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8090271 - 03/01/08 05:21 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Drugs are highly inelastic goods. I wonder when the governments will give up with the drug wars? A rational government would have regulated these drugs and taxed the ever loving hell out of them.
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i better still be able to get my pharmies
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: archetype]
#8090776 - 03/01/08 07:33 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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This article is full of simply made up shit. I really wish someone would ask these people for citations.
My favorite:
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Bush's drug policy adviser, John Walters, said the government is now focusing its "supply, demand and prevention policies with the goal of seeing the same reductions that we have achieved for illegal `street' drugs."
Interesting, I must have missed these great achievements. We'll use cocaine as an example here and see how this "success" is working:
(National Drug Intelligence Center
National Drug Threat Assessment 2006"
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Cocaine is widely available throughout most of the nation2, and cocaine supplies are relatively stable at levels sufficient to meet current user demand. Cocaine availability indicators have been mixed since 2000--wholesale purity has increased, wholesale prices are relatively stable, and arrests have fluctuated--and do not clearly indicate either an increase or decrease in wholesale availability of the drug (see Appendix B, Tables 4 and 6).
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs11/18862/cocaine.htm
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: johnm214]
#8092434 - 03/02/08 02:49 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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People like Bush think that drugs are "evil" so they will never stop trying to win the war on drugs, it's just good vs.evil to them so they won't ever give up.
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: pabloescabar]
#8092508 - 03/02/08 03:29 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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So people who need prozac, and have been getting the same dose for twenty years, now have to pay a doctor at a brick and morter office a shitload more money for the same damn thing?
Fuck this nanny state bullshit.
I thought Republicans were the party of personal responsibility and less govenrment interference?
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8092570 - 03/02/08 04:13 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Unfortunately, many young Americans do not understand how dangerous abusing medication can be, and in recent years, the number of Americans who have died from prescription drug overdoses has increased," Bush said.
Oh no, save teh children. Dey is too stoopid to nos hows teh use da interpipes to by the droogs so we make the pipes illegal cuz sellin drugs is bad n stuff.
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: Seuss]
#8092585 - 03/02/08 04:41 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Um but didnt bush use lots of the cocaine and other "deadly" illegal street drugs and pre. drugs
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: pabloescabar]
#8092634 - 03/02/08 05:30 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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People like Bush think that drugs are "evil" so they will never stop trying to win the war on drugs, it's just good vs.evil to them so they won't ever give up.
Actually the people that support Bush think that drugs are "evil". Bush probably doesn't give a flying fuck either way, unless he has started to believe his own propaganda (which is completely plausible - ppl with a weak sense of self are easily manipulated and their opinions readily change). His rejection of drugs is just the facade thats been put up in order to make him believable as president. It fits with the whole "born again christian" bs that he touts. Does anyone else seem to remember the stories of GW before he was president? Drank liquor, smoked weed, and snorted lots of coke. Probably abused pharmies as well as harder drugs, judging by his diction. Wouldn't be surprised if he still does use on a fairly regular basis - you have to believe the government can get some damn good drugs!
Bush just does as he is told. It would probably crush his soul if he ever could understand the hypocrisy of his actions.
As far as the "good vs. evil" argument, that is just politics. It sure is effective as a way to marginalize the real issues concerned making it readily understandable by our dumbed down masses, while at the same time providing a simple (and wholly ineffective) solution - complete illegalization. It works two-fold, the administration isn't forced to come up with any real fixes or consider any of the real issues (that's a lot of hard work); instead, they can just throw money at the problem. AND it makes the government look like they really care for you, American Joe Sixpack, by their aggressive stance in ridding the streets of these dangerous plants and chemicals that WANT to KILL YOUR KIDS! It's a brilliant formula that has gotten more than a handful of people into the oval office.
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fapjack
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Re: Bush: Stop Online Drug Sales [Re: RottenFruit]
#8093285 - 03/02/08 12:53 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm sure there are a lot more reasons than its "evil". It provides a shit ton of jobs and makes a lot of people a fuck load of money for starters.
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