So the issue is twofold:
First, there is the problem of a powerful drug being re-marketed as Oxycontin and promoted in ways that lead to abuse.
Secondly, there is the demand for this drug that is created that in turn creates a tremendous market that seduces the greedy and the stupid (the marketers and the profiteers because thinking you can sale this stuff and not get caught is not brilliant) and the users who are often victims who innocently become dependent and spend the rest of their lives needing more of the drug to prevent from “getting sick” when they violently experience withdrawal from this highly addictive and dangerous drug–people get so sedated under this drug that they stop breathing and die…).
This is not most importantly a debate about weed or about politics, or even about criminality… It is a calculated business move by investors to promote a substance that is now running wild in our society and killing innocent people…
via There is a reason why we have a war on drugs and why we cannot win it… « HealthThinkShop.
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May 18, 2013 • 5:40 pm 1
Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit – NYTimes.com
There may be no more important singular idea than the notion that corporations are persons. Indeed, they are.
The Koch brothers continue to be the target of media attention and this time they are not strategizing or paying for it. They are getting a freebee. It appears that an environmental secretion from their pursuit of wealth function has piled up higher and deeper in the eye of the media and in the middle of the “pristine” great lakes region. Oil… of course. Texas gold, or US black mud… or whatever earth exploiters and investors call it these days. Environmentalists and world builders are colliding once again as they accuse one another about tree hugging the world on the one hand and exploiting it for greed on the other. In the meantime the real lesson at hand here goes unnoticed.
The key and central problem we see on the horizon today is not piles of environmental waste but the proverbial “free rider problem” which is as old as cave metaphors and necessary untruths. It is big corporate money (to be sure corporate profits in the hands of ideologues) applied to our political discourse. The NYTs points it out… but what are we to do?
“Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the …”
via Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit – NYTimes.com.
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