Comments on: Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs

By: Lars Andersen

Lars Andersen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:28:08 +0000

This year in Washington State, a bill was introduced to create a drug “takeback” program, that would give the citizens of WA a secure place (a drug store or local clinic) to take their expired and unused drugs for proper disposal.

This bill was endorsed by many local governmental agencies (including law enforcement), non-profits, Bartell Pharmacies, Group Health Medical group, and the WA State Board of Pharmacies.

On the other side was the Pharmaceutical Industry – they sent about 40 lobbyists to stop the bill from one small state from passing. The amount of money they spent on lobbyist probably could have paid for the proper disposal of all the drugs collected.

Needless to say, the bill failed to pass - but the bill to allow the sales of Washington State wines in the Capital Building gift shop passed with no objections.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:53:35 +0000

I’m doing a essay over illegal drugs and if they should be legal. After reading this it allows your mind to ponder off and it hits you….why not legalize drugs it would lower crime and less tax money would be used. And one can only image in there mind the false saftey we try to play. When in fact we ourselves do worse to ourselves than illegal drugs. But however, i just think marijuana should be passed but the chemical drugs should be left alone. Allow those to kill themselves on legal drugs. Why not?

By: Ping69

Ping69 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:20:04 +0000

like everyone else one has to pay taxes to fund what is essentially a seriously flawed “War on Drugs”.

The truth is it is about using the WOD to justify an every enlarged control infrastructure & bogus control industry.

Just do your own thing and ignore the Criminal Elite.

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By: mlang52

mlang52 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:38:56 +0000

All this hype! NSAIDS (aspirin and such)kill up to 16,000 people a year from gastrointestinal bleeding. Tylenol kills livers. What about the other OTC’s? Just more proof that the deaths from “illegal” drugs including illegal prescription drugs,occur in far fewer people. Nothing is taken into perspective. Maybe we need to make aspirin controlled!

By: pdxvx

pdxvx — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:32:31 +0000

Alcohol is the common culprit insipidly more insidious than all the rest, yet most commonly is accepted by culture. The big bad WEED was severely propagandized to strengthen the investment of DuPont Chemical Co. in a “paper from wood pulp” patent using their slurry. They sabotaged the hemp industry to phase out hemp fiber because it was also a competitor of their new product patent for Nylon. Cannabis has never even stepped in the court killer substances with spirits, pills, narcotics, pesticides, herbicides and biochemical weapons of mass infection. Liberate!

By: John Kocalis

John Kocalis — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:14:12 +0000

Just more proof that the “war on drugs” is nothing more than the war for “profit from drugs”.

Fuck them all and their fascist bullshit.

By: Southernwolf

Southernwolf — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:00:53 +0000

If illegal drugs caused the rate of death legal drugs do there might be some justification for them to be illegal. Legal drugs are not only more dangerous but are supported by public funding.

By: adaptune

adaptune — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:25:48 +0000

I have a quibble with the headline. If 100 people died from A and 300 died from B, it is NOT true that “300% more people died from B than A”; rather, “200% more” is the correct figure. If this seems unclear, imagine that the numbers are 100 and 110; in this case 10% more die from B than from A.

This distinction may seem overly picky, but exaggerations used by proponents of drug legalization may be exploited by our enemies. Let’s not give the bozos any ammunition!

By: TCM

TCM — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:13:08 +0000

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By: CoyoteMan

CoyoteMan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:55:54 +0000

The 50 billion dollar a year war on drugs is a huge flop!
So now we’re going to blame Americans’ deaths on drug companies. Wait let’s blame Americans who are told they have to take those poisons by their doctors.
Let’s put the blame on the real criminals: Big Pharma!
Big Pharma’s greed is endless and their poisons have killed millions.
Time to police the real criminals Big Pharma!