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Originally Posted by KevK
The whole point is this- if you are going to demand minmum sentences for drugs then apply the damn thing to EVERYBODY including Rush Limball, Cindy McCain and Noel Bush. They all should be in a maximum security prison like me or you would be if we did the exact same thing!
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First off - congratulations on kicking smoking. It is tough to do.
Next, those addicted to booze have an illness - a recognized illness. Getting sober, and staying sober, is also very, very difficult - and those that do get sober are to be commended -
But, we do not send people to jail - especially "maximum security prisons" for being addicted.
Cindy McCain because addicted to pain killers after an injury. And, unless one has had this type of addiction, it is difficult to understand. YEARS ago - I was taking up to 24 Percodan a day. We did not have computers in Pharmacies. We did not have insurance paying for medications. But, I had 4 different doctors and they were each giving me scripts for Percs - it was easy -
Taking the meds as Mrs McCain did from the resources she did was wrong. No question. And while she may have entered re-hab because she got "caught" is, to me, not the important part - what is important, at least to me is, she got off those meds and has stayed off! That is the rough part -
Isn't it funny though that many on here have refused - flatly refused, to give Mrs. McCain credit for the work she does. How many of you would have the gut - the GUTS - to be around a land mine being neutralized?
I doubt anyone here would -