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Why is Asheville City Councilman Mumpower picking on the poor of Asheville who cannot afford to pay doctors and the drug companies for their Oxycontin, amphetamines, marijuana, etc.? Like poor people are the only drug users. Sure. I saw a doctor's daughter the other day who was using 18 different "drugs." Some of us richer folks have the richest urine in the world. Just look at the shelves at CVS or Walgreens.
These right-wing zealots, not physicians, go back to Teddy Roosevelt and the Harrison Act when they jailed the Chinese opium users and the Mexican marijuana importers and now they are putting more black males in jails that are full instead of giving them psychiatric help and free drugs at the Health Department. It would be a lot cheaper with fewer robberies and homicides.
If you have money you can go to Starbucks or Ingles for a beer or cigarette, but Mumpower wants you to go to jail if you are poor. Not a very Christian way to treat and help your fellow men, who are just as "sick" as the rich.
Earl Sunderhaus
Biltmore Forest
Source: Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
Copyright: 2007 Asheville Citizen-Times
Contact: letters@citizen-times.com
Website: The Citizen-Times, Asheville
These right-wing zealots, not physicians, go back to Teddy Roosevelt and the Harrison Act when they jailed the Chinese opium users and the Mexican marijuana importers and now they are putting more black males in jails that are full instead of giving them psychiatric help and free drugs at the Health Department. It would be a lot cheaper with fewer robberies and homicides.
If you have money you can go to Starbucks or Ingles for a beer or cigarette, but Mumpower wants you to go to jail if you are poor. Not a very Christian way to treat and help your fellow men, who are just as "sick" as the rich.
Earl Sunderhaus
Biltmore Forest
Source: Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
Copyright: 2007 Asheville Citizen-Times
Contact: letters@citizen-times.com
Website: The Citizen-Times, Asheville
