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Drug Control Becomes Speech Control

Alan414 Wrote: Sep 09, 2009 3:25 PM

I am well aware of the reason it is considered constitutional,it is because of the UN single convention treaty.This is the same UN that republicans despise.My opinion is that it is unconstitutional according to the 9th and 10th amendments and it is just plain wrong for the federal govt to dictate what citizens can do with their own bodies.Forget the Lincoln quote..."the constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government"
-Patrick Henry

The only thing that will help stop the drug war is for politicians,both dem and republican to realize that to continue supporting it is a political liability and the only way for that to happen is for citizens...

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Drug Control Becomes Speech Control

When the government accuses a doctor of running a "pill mill," prosecutors portray every aspect of his practice in a sinister light. Prescribing painkillers becomes drug trafficking, applying for insurance reimbursement becomes fraud, making bank deposits becomes money laundering and working with people at the office becomes conspiracy.

When Siobhan Reynolds thinks a doctor has been unfairly targeted for such a prosecution, she tries to counter the official narrative by highlighting the patients he has helped and dramatizing the conflict between drug control and pain control. But now the government has turned its reinterpretive powers on Reynolds, portraying the pain treatment...

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