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Reality Check: Whitney Houston's Downward Sprial

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    Popstar's passing highlights dangers of drug abuse

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But -- about -- -- -- reality check Whitney Houston dead in Los Angeles.

-- -- This used -- one of the most successful singers of all time sold about a 170 million albums with more to come after her debt.

In 2001 she signed a 100 million dollar record contract at the time the biggest deal in music history.

But it wasn't an -- Like so many pop stars -- and became addicted to drugs over the years she was in and out of rehab apparently using powerful addictive narcotics like cool okay.

Reports say she also drank heavily is obvious a woman destroyed herself and over the weekend she was found dead in a bathtub at a Los Angeles hotel.

She's in that leaves an eighteen year old daughter who had to be hospitalized.

After learning of her mother's death.

Incredibly at a pre Grammy Award party singer Tony Bennett offered this solution to -- -- this -- Let's legalize jokes like they didn't ask them.

And it's -- very same city.

You know -- and I didn't know when you run around corners.

Janice we got the virus.

They have to go to the doctor and get it.

That does it doesn't wanna get the -- they don't get it.

And the fiscal sanity instead of insanity.

Well -- all due respect mr.

Bennett his grasp on reality is slipping.

The Houston was found with a variety of legalize drugs in her hotel room apparently she took some of them.

And expire Tony Bennett -- want to rethink his contention that easier access to narcotics would have helped Whitney Houston.

As a factor recently reported the OxyContin epidemic is killing thousands of Americans all over the country that is a legal drug available by prescription.

Also medical marijuana is now legalized in many places and we now have Americans legally getting stoned every day on pop.

I'll call mostly an estimated 10%.

Of American adults have problems with -- So what exactly does legalizing narcotics bring us more availability.

That's want.

Whitney Houston wanted to kill herself nobody takes drugs for that long if they wanna stay on the -- She follows in the footsteps of Elvis Janis Joplin Michael Jackson -- scores of other entertainment figures.

The hard truth is that some people will always want to destroy themselves and there's nothing society can do about what the government can do.

Is design programs that make it difficult to sell and use Harden -- Cox.

There are countries in the world like Singapore where drug abuse is rare.

If the Singaporean authorities find a citizen using drugs that person goes into a facility it's mandated and stays there for quite some -- Of course the ACLU would go nuts if that were imposed in America but there should be some middle ground.

Check is disgusted by people who say that selling narcotics is not be violent crime.

Ron Paul has insinuated that and he is desperately wrong.

The Doctor Who prescribed those drugs for Whitney Houston had to know she was a drug -- everybody knew that.

Yet an MD apparently gave her powerful legal narcotics.

The same thing happened to Michael Jackson.

Is estimated -- 75% of all the child abuse and neglect in this country is caused by adults who are substance abuse.

Crime is driven by drug addicted people.

Inner city violence is driven by drug sellers in Mexico the drug cartels -- almost taken over the entire country.

When will society wake up drugs are dangerous not just of people like Whitney Houston but to all of us.

Legalizing them will have all kinds of unintended consequences especially for children.

What happened to Whitney Houston is off and I said a prayer for her last night but her death should at least start people thinking.

And Tony Bennett should be first on that list followed by Ron Paul.

And that is reality chip but had to pick it up on yeah.

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