Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Legalize All Drugs" video.

@endriu55 No FDA Sure bring back the profit hungry unregulated drug market. Once enough people die of a drug in the market the market for it drops until it gets renamed. Going through another killing until enough people die making profit hungry companies and their owners rich beyond belief. Struggling to get rid of capitalism all together and then you can begin the process of ending the alienation that makes people turn to drugs to make them feel good.
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@assurdo8888 I don't think we are talking about the same thing. Closing down the FDA so anyone can make any claim of a drugs suitability with neither proof of safety or effectiveness is one thing that I am against. As far as the Marijuana classification as a narcotic that is completely bogus. It belongs in the Tobacco and Alcohol category. People addicted to opiates need treatment not jail. Arresting dealer/addicts and then turning them into drug kingpins is just abusive. Arresting people who are dealers but not addicts should be the goal. You can't fix capitalism which is why you will never fix the drug problem with in the capitalist framework. A socialist revolution opens the door to solving social problems. Stalin effectively closed that door with the 1936 to 1938 purge trials of the old bolsheviks.
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I don't want to work with people who are on the job drug abusers of any kind because they put me and the other workers in danger. The same goes with those using drugs while operating a motor vehicle. if you insist you don't need help than maybe jail is the right place for you.
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@assurdo8888 I'm in Texas a few miles from Mexico. The guy in the video being from Harvard makes him one of the elite thinkers of American Capitalism. The traditional reaction to capitalist corruption and greed has been the rise of the administrative state where three and four letter federal agencies make the rules for controlling greed after scandal. Now a whole group of 'radical' thinkers called libertarians want to eliminate them on the grounds that capitalism is self regulating. We'd like to have trade union control over on the job safety, production, and pollution. If we had socialism Medical Doctors would control medicines (Drugs). Of course your right about corruption of the FDA. There has also developed since the 1960's the class action law suite where lawyers get together clients to sue companies for wrong doing. Now they sued the makers of Xarelto in a class action and are now seeking more clients but the doctors are still prescribing as I have a prescription for it. Unlike other countries you must have a Doctor's prescription to buy any drug or medicine outside of a very few cough medicines, aspirin, NSAID's, topical antibiotics and toothpaste. Opiates from codeine to fentanyl come under both FDA and DEA regulation.
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Life expectancy has gone down since the 2008 crisis. One driver was the prescriptions of the legal opiate Oxycodone. The Sackler family became billionaires with the sale of oxycodone with claims of little to no addiction problem. This is a crisis that can no longer be contained by the drug war such that politicians can no longer use drug crime as a way to gain votes.
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@assurdo8888 Many became addicts starting on legal drugs because these "Pain relief clinics" were set up to sell oxy. Everyone from the Purdue Pharma and the other even bigger drug companies, the distributors , prescribing doctor, and pharmacists were making big money. The cops at DEA were supposedly asleep at the switch to busy going after El Chapo whose was getting guns from the ATF I guess. I don't think you have any idea how many people were turned into addicts, cut off and then left to fend for themselves. Which is the way capitalism always works. (Hurricane coming then expect the mayor and cops to announce "Your on your own." Nursing home patients dying across the street from the hospital during a hurricane because of a power outage.) That's the true crime of private property along with a lack of available treatment. When they do get treatment many are left sitting at home with nothing to do. People such as this asshole making the video just wants an excuse to end all treatment for those who can't pay. Do you live in a country were daytime TV constantly advertises to the elderly and disabled audience for a better but private medical insurance plan if you sign your Medicare/Medicaid government paid healthcare benefits over to these parasites? "Medicare/Medicaid may not pay for vision and dental needs but call us because our plans let you keep your own doctor." they scream.
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If you want to know more about the "opiate crisis" than search for podcasts on NPR (national Public Radio).
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@rs72098 Capitalism breeds alienation that's why drugs have a market in a capitalist economy.
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@smalltown7773 You be under arrest for being a danger to your self. Than you will be sent to a mental institution. You tell the judge anything other than what he wants to here and its back for another six months.
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@Sahnz :D Me too. TheMilitant.com
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