http://www.wesh.com/news/dea-addresses-prescription-access-issue/35273410 video
I posted this video about a week ago. This was a report by Matt Grant from WESH TV in Orlando from the Florida Pharmacists Association Meeting. One has to listen to the words of Susan Langston with the DEA’s Miami field division..
“Not everybody’s going to fit into a checklist, but they still need their prescriptions filled,”…”As long as you’re doing your job, doing your best and doing what you can not to participate in drug abuse, addiction and diversion, then you’re not going to have any problem with the DEA,” Langston said.
Drug abuse is a Mental Health disease/issue
Addiction is a Mental Health disease/issue
We need to understand that Ms Langston and her colleagues at the DEA… are working under a court decision back in 1917 that determined that the mental health disease of addiction/drug abuse is a CRIME..
I may be wrong.. but.. isn’t it the job of the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH – like Congress – to write laws… and not the job of the JUDICIAL BRANCH to create LAWS..
Likewise, look how much has changed in our country since 1917..
This was STATE OF THE ART personal transportation
This was STATE OF THE ART of the airplane industry
This was STATE OF THE ART home entertainment
STATE OF ART Physician’s Office
Yet our judicial system/DEA is still relying on 100 year old laws to justify its existence and has this law’s constitutionality ever been challenged ?
Filed under: General Problems
To my knowledge, this law has never been challenged. Perhaps a challenge by the medical and sociological disciplines and the knowledge discovered over the last 100 years would allow a legal challenge to prevail. Part of the problem with the prohibitionist policies and the resulting laws is that they are rooted in racist thinking and Neopuritanical attitudes. The real challenge is that the state derives a great deal of power and is able to steal larger portions of the products of the citizenry’s labors in the name of winning the so-called “War on Drugs”. Even if the best and brightest minds prevail in convincing the common man that the addiction that drives so many people so afflicted is indeed a bonafide disease and should be treated in clinics by medical and psychological professionals, as opposed to the current model of putting these people in cages and under the surveillance of Correctional Officers, the State will be loath to relax it’s grip on the throats and wallets of the people that it presumes to rule over.