As 60 Minutes convincingly demonstrates, Big
Pharma and the United States Congress are the cause of the problem. Watch the investigative report, here. Learn how legislation was passed to permit
Big Pharma to push their drugs—including shipping 11 million pills to a town of
5,000 residents with utter disregard for how those pills would later be distributed
on the black market. (No wonder Big
Pharma opposes marijuana legalization: they want the drug market all to
themselves.) Meanwhile, local
prosecutors get to bully drug users and small-time drug “suppliers,” while the
courts allow the police to trample our Fourth Amendment rights in the name of
crime prevention. Yeah, nice work; prosecutors and judges get to sleep well, pretending they’re “tough
on crime.” In reality, money and
influence rule the day, while the poor sap (who relies on an overworked public
defender) is made the scapegoat. Kudos
to all involved. Big business and big
government have created and perpetuated a problem that the citizenry pays for
while executives and government fat cats reap the benefits. But don’t take my word for it – watch the episode,
do your own research, and reach your own conclusions. P.S., I also like the episode’s reference to
the Marquette Law Review (where I toiled away for two credits) and
Quarles & Brady, LLP (where I sometimes toiled, and sometimes surfed the web,
for much greater compensation).
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