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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (133165)5/16/2004 9:55:53 AM
From: Suma  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
www.stopthedrugwar.org.

A wheelchair-bound Richard Paey was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Florida judge on April 16. Paey,who was convicted of forging prescriptions for pills to ease chronic,severe,back pain dating from failed surgeries after an auto accident in 1985 was sentenced under Fl. law as drug dealer-though even prosecutors conceded there is no evidence he did aything other than consume the medicine himself.

Paey's sentencing came as Fl. endures a bout of prescription pain pill abuse hysteria marked by the continuing legal and media odyssey of an Oxycontin-gobbling Rush Limbaugh and sensational series of ill reported stories in the Orlando Sentinel.

ETC... one can find it on the web site.... I offered.