Smoking Gun has the search warrant that outlines the drug investigation that has embroiled Rush Limbaugh:

OCTOBER 3--Meet Louis Beshara and his wife, Gloria Rodriguez. The Florida couple are at the heart of the drug scandal now enveloping radio superstar Rush Limbaugh. Investigators allege that the duo illegally sold hundreds of thousands of prescription painkillers from a Palm Beach-area pharmacy they owned. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's search warrant affidavit, Beshara provided Hydrocodone, the powerful and addictive painkiller, to middlemen drug dealers like Joseph Coppola who then resold the pills to users. It has been reported that Limbaugh scored some of the Beshara pills via Wilma Cline, a former maid at the radio star's West Palm Beach mansion. Beshara and Rodriguez, who each face two felony drug trafficking charges, are free on bail, though Beshara is under house arrest. (8 pages)

WPTV, a TV station in West Palm Beach, has reported Rush has retained Roy Black, Miami's justly famed criminal defense attorney. Great choice.

As we said yesterday, you won't find much Rush-bashing here, although commenters are free to post their thoughts on him, his hypocrisy and his politics. We'll try to stick to details about the criminal investigation. Now that Rush is a subject of a criminal probe and may have some criminal liability, the issue to us becomes the misguided drug war that jails people for addiction and dependency problems.

If Limbaugh was overusing painkillers, we think it's a medical issue and we're not going to trash him for it. Drug dependency is a medical condition. It should not be a crime. If he is in legal trouble for it, we hope he gets the best legal help possible.