Why Christie suddenly cares about helping drug addicts
The U.S. has a long history of criminalizing drug addicts with lengthy prison sentences in lieu of rehabilitation or treatment. The tough on crime rhetoric has always been the go-to strategy for Republican politicians like Ronald Reagan, who famously signed mandatory minimums for drug abusers into law back in 1987. If someone had a drug problem, it was always seen as their fault and their lack of responsibility that led to the addiction.
Nov 09, 2015
A successful parody always risks being taken too seriously, and a parody ad targeting Rush Limbaugh's drug use may have received the ultimate accolade when it was featured on the website of an actual dealer in illicit drugs. To the satirist's dismay, his photoshopped image has now become part of a DEA investigation.