BTW, the reason the govt comes down so hard on drug dealers is because they are competition to the drug companies.
It really makes no sense otherwise. How else can it happen that a drug company pays off FDA officials to approve a drug they know will kill people (say Vioxx for example), the drug then does kill well into the hundreds of thousands of people in the USA, and nobody even gets a slap on the wrist?
Someone brought up preying on twelve year olds with meth. Why is it okay to give a 12yo ritalin, which is really just a form of speed?
There really seems to be no sense of perspective in this country anymore when it comes to crime and punishment. Kill someone, you get a year or so, depending on how outraged the public is.
Steal from a bank or a major corporation, you get 300 years.
Be an executive at the same bank or corporation and steal from the employees? You get slapped on the wrist with a multi million dollar buyout to leave the company and serve about 3 days in a country club prison.
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