Another White Person Gets Away With Drug Use
Rush Limbaugh signed a plea agreement yesterday that will clear his record of drug charges if he remains in treatment for another 18 months, stays clean, and doesn’t break any (other) laws.
Let’s see what Rush had to say:
“Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. … And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up,” Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995.
During the same show, he commented that statistics that show blacks go to prison more often than whites for the same drug offenses only illustrate that “too many whites are getting away with drug use.”
It certainly makes more sense to treat non-violent drug offenders rather than throwing them in prison. It’s just too bad that you have to be a rich celebrity — and, yes, being white helps — to get effective treatment.