From: Judy Folkenberg 



Randall Parker wrote:

>

> >>You agree his pain drove him to addiction? Then do you also agree that
> addiction is a very powerful urge that is hard to control?

I said I made that assumption...

> >>>Look, a person who sets out to take coke daily to be cool
for the fun of
> it has made a very different choice for a very different reason than
> someone who starts out taking a prescription painkiller because they are
> suffering from severe back pains (which, btw, are mind-boggling in their
> intensity if you have never had the misfortune to suffer them). I there
> is a moral and practical difference for different paths to addiction and
> abuse.

Randall...you keep missing the point.  Of course there's a difference
between those who recreate with
drugs and those who take them for pain.  I don't disagree with you.  But
Rush did NOT make that
difference.  That's the point.

He lumped all drug abusers together and said they should be thrown in jail.
You and I can draw a
distinction between those who abuse drugs for fun and those who abuse them
for pain.  Simple
question:  Why couldn't Rush?  He did not draw the distinction which makes
him a heck of hypocrite.

> >>I don't care whether you listen to Rush.

You "accused' me of being miffed because of where he stood on the
political spectrum. implying that I
listened to him  And I don't care where he stands.

> >>It sounds like you know as little about his previous
statements on drugs as
I do (and I've never
> heard him on the topic since I never listen to him and he has absolutely no
appeal to me as a
> commentator).

Anything I've quoted was from news reports.

>  >>As for his previous marijuana use: when?

Don't know when.  Or he was also on welfare for a time too.

>

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