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OftenBen  ·  2921 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'

Nobody pushing this shit is going to see the inside of a jail cell.





user-inactivated  ·  2921 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Realistically, if people decided that what happened was genuinely criminal, how would they even go about figuring out who to arrest, prosecute, and put on trial?

OftenBen  ·  2921 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Find the pushers. Find the guy saying 'We need to sell more oxys and percocet.'

Then do to them what you do to the street level pushers.

user-inactivated  ·  2921 days ago  ·  link  ·  

But as far as I can tell they didn't break any laws, at least not in a black and white manner.

OftenBen  ·  2916 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right, because it's illegal to sell oxys in small quantity. You gotta move weight to bribe the cops.

user-inactivated  ·  2915 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay then. Tell me exactly what laws the people in the pharmaceutical companies broke that would lead to jail time.

OftenBen  ·  2915 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dealers typically get arrested if enough of their clients overdose.

Push weight, bribe the cops.

Sell dimes, do time.

user-inactivated  ·  2915 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're comparing two completely different things.

One is the actions of individuals whose actions are clearly breaking laws that are written in black and white. The other is actions of a collection of people, who might be acting unethically, but for all intents and purposes are following all the laws and regulations that apply to the businesses responsible for the manufacturing and distributing of legal substances.

There is a real chance that no one involved in this whole ordeal was acting maliciously and that the mess we're in is just another result of failing system. You're upset. That's cool. This is something worth being upset about. That doesn't mean though that anyone actually did anything legally wrong, or else this would be a criminal trial, not a lawsuit.