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The relative seriousness of the offense is that he had dealer quantites. That is not small potatoes to the prosecutors.
That requires the type of thorough investigation we are seeing now. Especially because they are large quantities of prescription drugs. Prescription drug investigations are different from narcotics like marijuana and cocaine because the drugs Rush was buying have been coming from some "legitimate source" And in alarming quantities. So the feds must track this down, thus the thorough investigation. Including the seisure of his doctors records.
The reason you haven't heard of an investigation of a celebrity like this before is because most celebs don't get caught buying several thousand pills at one time, along with the additional FELONIES he seems to be racking up in this investigation.
I want the laws changed. I don't think these kinds of problems are helped by prison sentences. But until the laws are changed, there are thousands of men and women in prison right now. And until they are released, the kind of man who is supporting their incarceration while he himself is guilty of the same transgressions, he belongs there with them.
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