Daughter Is Sent to Jail

[Marco Anglesio]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:

> R wrote:
> 
> >MIAMI, July 17 — Noelle Bush, the 24-year-old daughter of Gov. Jeb. 
> >Bush, was sent to Orange County jail in Orlando this afternoon after 
> >failing to meet conditions of a court-ordered rehabilitation plan 
> >stemming from her drug arrest in January.
> 
> Gosh, she's got a Xanax jones. For this she needs to go to jail? How 
> many millions of Americans are on Prozac? What a wacko place this is.

It's not quite the same. Xanax is a benzodiazepine, or minor tranquilizer,
where Prozac is an antidepressant. Xanax is also well known for having a
very powerful and quick effect, which makes it a drug of choice for abuse. 
That's probably why she had it in the first place.

I'm not a big fan of drug laws, but if you were to chart drugs on a list
of their potential harm to users I daresay that tranquilizers would be up
there, possibly worse than alcohol. It's not a matter of charting the
"strength" of a drug so much as its effect. 

m.

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