States fight 'tourists' trafficking painkillers

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• DrJCA1 posted at 2:41 pm on Sun, Jul 8, 2012.

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  Because of the absurdly lenient laws in the drug selling business, we have this problem. It is very easily fixed however:

  first of all, any medical professional dispensing more than a reasonable amount of controlled substances (say a 30 day supply) for a known patient, or any controlled substances for an unknown patient, gets hauled into court, and if convicted, loses his license and gets tossed into the joint for about 5 years. I never gave this kind of medication to my patients in huge amounts. Perhaps a 2 week supply at most.

  Secondly, anyone selling prescription controlled drugs caught and convicted, automatically gets 20 years without parole in prison for the first offense. Second offense is an automatic life sentence without parole. Anyone selling this garbage to minors gets the death penalty, to be carried out within a year of conviction.

  While nothing will prevent all criminal activity, this sure as heck would cut down on a lot of it. Like all crimes, when the incentives to do bad things outweigh the punishments if caught, crime will increase. When the punishment is so severe that it far outweighs the potential money involved, crime will decrease.

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• wdgnas posted at 6:05 am on Mon, Jul 9, 2012.

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  why should the supplier get the lighter sentence?

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