Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: HOSPITALS AND DOCTORS - the worst drug pushers
Barry-
You compare the damage done by marijuana to that done by alcohol.
Have you ever considered talking about the fact that 250,000 +++ people a year are killed by pharmaceutical drugs and doctors and hospitals who push these drugs? And millions more are injured by legal drugs.
This general topic is called IATROGENICS - which means doctor or drug caused death and injury.
Doctors kill more people people than guns and car accidents combined. Because of the cover-ups by the medical industry nobody really knows the true statistics on iatrogenic death and injury.
Have you considered talking about how drug advertising teaches people to take a drug when they feel bad or have any problem. So Mom is on valium - because she has emotional problems, Dad takes 3 kinds of heart, blood pressure medication, plus Viagra - all because he doesn't eat right or exercise, "junior" is on Ritalin - because school is boring, yet big sister is in big trouble for trying pot.
Pharmaceutical companies spend billions on advertising and have therefore corrupted the news media (via ad revenues) into giving drug companies a pass for the huge death and destruction they cause.
I saw them attack you on your Fox TV clip. You could rip the media and the medical establishment a new one with this line of response.
There is a lot of information and data out there about this topic if you want to ad it to your message.
Any marijuana activist may also contact me if you want more information on iatrogenics -- doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies -- the really immoral drug pushers.
You will win the "war against the drug war" if you go on offense (like Barry is doing) in more and more creative ways.
Great information and is certainly a great argument in our favor!!! Thanks and keep posting cool information like this. You would be surprised at the number of people who read the info on this board but do not post.
Your posting good info like this is read by thousands so please keep it up!!
