Saturday, June 28, 2008

97% of drug deaths in America are from legal drugs

Tobacco
435,000

Alcohol & drunk driving
85,000

Bad reactions to prescription drugs
32,000

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
7,600
———
Total
559,600
.

All illicit drug use, direct and indirect
17,000
.
That’s %3.03 of total US drug deaths. (According to the Journal of the American Medical Association’s statistics, March 2004.) These statistics show drug laws don’t protect us. Instead they protect politicians - they need drug laws to look tough because they’re too cowardly to go after real crooks. In February 2008, Reuters announced 22,000 Americans died just from one legal drug: "22,000 lives could have been saved if Trasylol had been taken off the market"
Those guys are buying vacation homes - they’re rewarded for tricking people into believing their drugs were safe. But who’s jailed? Backyard gardeners. After all, what could be easier for the government than taking the big drug dealer’s money? Jailing the small drug dealers.

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