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More Victims of America’s War on Drugs

Posted by NICK RIVERA in At TMV.
Sep 22nd, 2009 | 2 responses

Reason Magazine reminds us that nonviolent users of illegal drugs aren’t the only victims of America’s War on (some) Drugs. A number of physicians and patients suffering from incurable neurogenic diseases have been sent to prison all because your congressmen and congresswoman insist that they (and not physicians) should be making decisions about prescribing pain medications.

Thanks to Radley Balko over at The Agitator for the link. For more information on this issue, please visit Radley’s Pain Treatment archives as well as the Cato Institute’s report on the subject.



2 Responses to “More Victims of America’s War on Drugs”

  1. ProfElwood says:
    September 23, 2009 at 12:31 am

    The FDA evaluates medicines on the basis of safety (what are the side effects) and effectiveness. How would our drug war fare by these standards? In other words, how effective is drug prohibition in making drugs inaccessible to the population, and what does this effort cost the nation?

  2. Rudi says:
    September 23, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    The WOD is just a cash cow for municipalities to cash in on forfeitures. Another problem is cops playing Rambo with no knock warrants. In a related note, seems cops tasered a double amputee in a wheel chair during a non violent domestic call:
    http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=27134
    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/75729…

    Did California police use a Taser on an unarmed, legless man in a wheelchair?

    MERCED, Calif. — The Merced Police Department's Internal Affairs Division is investigating whether an officer twice used a Taser on an unarmed, wheelchair-bound man with no legs.

    The man who was Tasered, Gregory Williams, 40, a double-leg amputee, spent six days in jail on suspicion of domestic violence and resisting arrest, but the Merced County District Attorney's office hasn't filed any charges.

    Williams, who was released from jail on Friday, said he was manhandled and Tasered by police, even though he said he was never physically aggressive toward the officers and didn't resist arrest.

    Williams said he was humiliated after his pants fell down during the incident. The officers allegedly left him outdoors in broad daylight, handcuffed on the pavement, nude below the waist. Williams said the Sept. 11 arrest also left him with an injured shoulder, limiting his mobility in his wheelchair.

    I wonder if cops would manhandle to taser a Claus von Bulow?

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