Okay, here's a quote, one that I happen to completely agree with. Guess who said it. Go on, guess.
"The public is better served by treating addicts as patients rather than criminals."
Give up? Well, it was Rush Limbaugh's lawyer, in an attempt (happily unsuccessful) to get Rush off with a slap on the wrist. Ha ha ha ha! That guy is hilarious!
Just to refresh your memory, Rush Limbaugh is the guy who has an insanely popular radio show on which he often says things like this:
"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
During the same show, he commented that the statistics that show blacks go to prison more often than whites for the same drug offenses only illustrate that "too many whites are getting away with drug use."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/13/politics/main577682.shtml
What a dickhead.
