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97% Of Drug Related Deaths From Legal Drugs

by admin on Feb.04, 2009, under Laws, News

Tobacco

435,000¹

Alcohol & drunk driving

85,000¹

Bad reactions to prescription drugs

32,000¹

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

7,600¹

———

559,600

That’s %3.03 of total US drug deaths. (According to the Journal of the American Medical Association’s statistics, March 2004.)

Today’s drug laws aren’t protecting us. After all they exist to protect politicians - they need drug laws to look tough because they’re allied with the real crooks. (Their corporate donors.)

In february 2008, Reuters announced 22,000 Americans died just from one legal drug:

“22,000 lives could have been saved if Trasylol had been taken off the market”
— reuters.com

Those guys are buying vacation homes - they’re rewarded for tricking people into believing their drugs were safe. But who’s jailed? Backyard gardeners.

After all, what could be easier for the government than taking the big drug dealer’s money? Jailing the small drug dealers.

- NewsRogue

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