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Welcome to “The Michael Savage Newsletter,” your daily report on all things “Savage.”
In today’s issue: In this presidential election season there is a crucial subject that has been largely ignored, to the detriment of our young people in particular, Dr. Savage told his listeners.
“Why is not one talking about the scourge of drugs on our youth?” he said. “It’s killing us. It’s killing our children, and no one’s talking about it.”
Now, there are things that can be done. Old Savage has some solutions.
You can start with the source of the oxycodone, the pharmaceutical companies, and prohibit the manufacture of those drugs.
That’s number one. I mean, cut if off at the supply.
Listen, I’ve gotta tell you something, at my Master’s level of training I was studying pharmacology with one of the great men in the history of pharmacology. He was the former research director of Dow Chemical. It doesn’t make me a great chemist, but I know a little about the subject.
And the fact of the matter is that, you may not be aware of it, but heroin was a synthetic derivative that was developed to get people off morphine. Did you know that?
Big Pharma, at that time, created a drug to treat morphine addiction. It’s because the West was so addicted to morphine. In all of its manifestations it was legal. People were using it all the time, and they were becoming addicted.
And they didn’t know how to treat the addiction. So the chemists developed a modification of morphine … to get people off of morphine, and as you well know, heroin is more addictive than morphine is.
Then, what happened later on, in the middle of the last century, what did the pharmaceutical industry develop to get people off heroin? Do you remember which drug was being given out in clinics across America and is still given out, where heroin addicts have to go in and drink the stuff?
It turned out that that was more addictive than heroin.
So, it’s one drug after another. And you have to start with the drugs, and then work your way down.
You also have to start punishing the drug dealer, not the drug taker. I’ll be very clear about that.
It’s, frankly, heartbreaking to see the police doing their jobs, yes, but harassing the drug user. Because, to me, the drug user may be a criminal, but unless you catch him doing a criminal act, he’s not a criminal. And to criminalize the use of drugs, to me, is a crime. The crime is selling the drugs. And that’s where the crime needs to be punished much more severely. The dealer, the supplier, the importer. That’s where the crime is, that’s, I think you, what need to focus on, but no one’s talking about it.
Why is no one talking about drug addiction, when it is a scourge that’s killing our youth?
How come the great president of the United States had nothing to say the other day about the scourge of drugs on our children?
Why? Think very, very carefully. Think very, very carefully where the campaign funds come from.
Think about the cozy relationship between pharmaceutical lobbyists and government spokesmouths, and then you’ll have your answer.
Everything is bought and paid for in the United States of America. Virtually every idea that you hear, except mine, are the result of lobbyists.
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