Topic: Government Regulation
Are Cell Phones a Food or a Drug? The Food and Drug Administration feels compelled to give warnings about cell phones because another overbloated bureaucracy (FCC) can't seem to "protect" us.by Michael P. Weinheimer
(libertarian)
Sunday, June 15, 2008
One thing I have noticed lately is all the warning labels that accompany cell phones. Most come from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Now there are also warnings from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
"FDA derives its authority to regulate wireless telephones from the Radiation Control provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (originally enacted as the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968)." - http://www.fda.gov/cellphones/
I only have three problems with the Food and Drug Administration. There are the "Food" part, the "Drug" part, and the "Administration" part.
While the FDA was busy inspecting the cell phoes that the FCC had already inspected, a bunch of tomatoes contaminated with salmonella entered the marketplace. We are told that we import tomatoes because we don't grow enough to sustain ourselves. We aren't told is that the federal government continues to pay farmers not to grow crops.
The drug problem is twofold: The legal drugs with potentially lethal side effects and the illegal drugs with fewer, more benign effects. Viagra, a legal drug used for erectile dysfunction, has some potentially dangerous side effects ranging from problems with color perception to heart attacks. Marijuana, an illegal drug, can be used from anything from pain relief to nausea suppression to appitite arousal, yet has fewer dangerous side effects.
The FDA is proposing a budget for FY2009 of $2.4 billion or 5.7% more than FY 2008. This includes a 14.4% increase in user fees or a total of $628 million. This increase is supposed to make us feel "safer" like last year's increase and the increases before that. It doesn't work. We are forced to pay for these increases at a higher rate than the rate of inflation in spite of not being any safer.
I have concluded that cell phones are drugs. The only question I have left is whether I should smoke it, snort it, or inject it.
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Date: 2008-06-15 20:39:05
To much government is killing us all! FDA... what a joke! Where are all the sick pot smokers? Where are all the people with tiny little brains that have shrunk from smoking pot? Where is the gateway that no more pot smokers travel through than any other group of the general population? PROHIBITION never works it just CAUSES CRIME & VIOLENCE. The USA spends $69 billion a year on the drug war, builds 900 new prison beds and hires 150 more correction officers every two weeks, arrests someone on a drug charge every 17 seconds, jails more people than any nation and has killed over 100,000 citizens in the drug war. It's time to remove ALL the politicians that promote prohibition. In 1914 when there were NO PROHIBITED DRUGS 1.3% of our population was addicted to drugs, TODAY 1.3% of our population is STILL ADDICTED TO DRUGS BUT THERE’S WAY MORE DRUG RELATED CRIME AND VIOLENCE BECAUSE OF THE HUGE PROFITS PROHIBITION GENERATES. DRUGS TODAY ARE MORE POTENT, MORE READILY AVAILABLE AND LESS EXPENSIVE THAN THEY WERE IN THE EARLY 70’S WHEN RICHARD NIXON STARTED THE WAR ON DRUGS. The only way to control drugs is to REGULATE THEM AND END THE PROFITS AVAILABLE TO CRIMINALS just like ending alcohol prohibition did. There’s only been one drug success story in history, tobacco, BY FAR THE MOST DEADLY and one of the MOST ADDICTIVE drugs. Almost half the users quit because of REGULATION, ACCURATE INFORMATION AND MEDICAL TREATMENT. No one went to jail and no one got killed. But what about the kids?... PROHIBITED DRUGS ARE WAY EASIER FOR KIDS TO GET THAN REGULATED DRUGS! The drug war is a failure, the epitome of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Everyone should DEMAND their Constitutional rights be honored. The right; to freedom of religion, free speech, a free press, to keep and bear arms, to be secure in your person, house, papers and effects against unreasonable search and seizure, to life, liberty and property, to be protected from having your property taken by the government without due process of law and without just compensation, to confront the witnesses against you, to be protected from excessive bail, excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment, to vote and many others have been denied to millions of Americans in the name of the drug war.JOIN THE EMAIL LIST AND WATCH THE VIDEOS:Internet Explorer:http://jsknow.angelfire.com/home
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