Government Priorities
The government is worried that you will do harm to yourself if you self-medicate pain pills. So what is their response? They will throw you in jail for 25 years. Yeah, much better to have someone rot in jail for a quarter of a century than make a bad decision that only affects himself.
You couldn't possible be surprised...
Yeah, but they won't throw Rush into jail for the same thing...
Because if we fill up the jails with people using drugs, then the world will be safer because nobody else commits crimes. Oh. Wait...
Gah. They're turning me into a Libertarian more and more each day.