Heroin in Huntington

[Asclepias]

Lots of drugs are harmless. Its the abuse of drugs that is not harmless. Yes people should be free to use their drugs. However, this is not a political story. Its asking what mindset causes and entire city to be ravaged by drugs.

WV has lost a lot of jobs and population, and Huntington I think is one of the areas heavily hit: West Virginia Unrecovered: No Job Gains Since 2008 | WV Center on Budget and Policy

While the state has lost 1,900 jobs since 2008, the jobs losses have been mostly concentrated in the southern part of the state. Between 2008 and 2014, the Huntington-Ashland area lost 6,500 jobs, Charleston 4,500, and Beckley 1,400. Meanwhile, Morgantown has gained 6,400 jobs since 2008, the Wheeling area has gained just 300, and the Parkersburg-Vienna area has lost 1,000. ​

Bad economics and no hope destroys a lot of places. i was just wondering why this particular place instead of other places like it.

Because your president destroyed their economy with his energy policy. No hope in coal land.

So you agree that if whites are subject to even less severe conditions as Black communities that they end up doing worse?

Killing themselves with drugs is not worse than killing each other with violence.
Why do you have to make everything about race? Can't you ever get beyond your skin color?

Sounds like an opinion instead of a fact and I see you carefully avoided answering my question.

My skin color has nothing to do with it. I was just wondering how a community that is predominantly white and known for racism could fall prey to Black drug dealers.

 

[Asclepias]

Oh wait. I see it wasnt just Black drug dealers.

 

[Asclepias]

IOW, this problem will only get worse if HRC is elected.

Dont you think that the GOP nominee with his track record of outsourcing his jobs would actually make it worse?

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

IOW, this problem will only get worse if HRC is elected.

Duh. Everything will get worse under another democrat. They want to do to the country what they've done to every inner city.

 

[Katzndogz]

IOW, this problem will only get worse if HRC is elected.

Dont you think that the GOP nominee with his track record of outsourcing his jobs would actually make it worse?

You can't outsource construction.

 

[Asclepias]

IOW, this problem will only get worse if HRC is elected.

Dont you think that the GOP nominee with his track record of outsourcing his jobs would actually make it worse?

You can't outsource construction.

You low intellect right wingers never cease to amaze me with your displays of ignorance.

Construction Outsourcing: A Philippine Builder Delivers

 

[gipper]

Destroy the deep state, and much of this problem would cease.

The Politics of Heroin | Chicago Review Press

The war on drugs by our central government, has been a dismal failure. Just as they have failed with their wars on cancer, terrorism, and poverty. All it does is make government bigger and more tyrannical to say nothing of the opportunities it generates for nefarious actions by the deep state.

 

[MikeK]

There has been a pervasive myth that drugs are harmless.

[...]

"Pervasive myth?" I've never heard it said that recreational "drugs are harmless." Nor have I heard it said that beverage alcohol is harmless. But I will say that reckless, ill-advised use of either substance category is potentially harmful.

The pervasive problem is the the drug war perpetuates ignorance because it focuses on the "Just Say No" mandate which has long ago proved to be absolutely futile and counterproductive.

 

[MisterBeale]

IOW, this problem will only get worse if HRC is elected.

Dont you think that the GOP nominee with his track record of outsourcing his jobs would actually make it worse?

Well, no.

What I study is the Deep State.

I'm not concerned with the outsourcing of jobs. What I am concerned with is the funding of black-ops. and unapproved intelligence operations that congress and the peoples representatives wouldn't approve of.

Hillary Clinton is the chosen representative of the Deep State. Take for instance the establishment choosing Anderson Cooper as one of the debate moderators. If you study these things, you would know that he is CIA, he's part of the Deep State.

Judging by the way the establishment and the CFR have been treating the two candidates, you can be sure that the establishment will continue shipping heroine and cocaine into the nation so that the intelligence establishment will launder the cash and have a large pool of liquid funds to operate from, regardless of the budget congress approves.

Trump's shadowy benefactors (the mafia) have have been shut out of the game, largely since the days of Reagan. If you research Roy Cohn, Resorts international, ect., you will learn why this whole immigration issue is such a big deal to his benefactors. Their only source of revenue since those days have been gambling and drugs.

What have we seen? Moves toward drugs legalization, the Feds letting Mexican cartels take over turf, and allowing Indians to set up casino's to take over their turf. It has been a nightmare for them.

The Deep State has grown in power and scope. The only thing I can't figure out is why he seems to approve of what Assange has done but wants to see Snowden's head on a platter.

The fact is, Hillary will tolerate more of this shit. I don't think Trump will. It goes against his, make America great again. Toleration of this crap is what is patently racist. She was in government when this was going down. In fact, her husband was Governor and participated in that whole Mena airport scandal. Getting minority communities hooked on drugs is considered by them, as, genocidal.

The CIA admitted in 1998 that guerrilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling illegal drugs into the United States—drugs that were making their way onto the streets of inner-city black neighborhoods in the form of crack cocaine. The CIA also admitted that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to fund its covert war in Nicaragua.
America's Current Racial Caste System - We Need to Ensure That It Is Our Last

Clintons, Contras and Cocaine
Clintons, Contras and Cocaine


I find it ironic that it takes a criminal organization to challenge the corruption that has rotted to the core the criminals in D.C.

 

[MisterBeale]

Destroy the deep state, and much of this problem would cease.

The Politics of Heroin | Chicago Review Press

The war on drugs by our central government, has been a dismal failure. Just as they have failed with their wars on cancer, terrorism, and poverty. All it does is make government bigger and more tyrannical to say nothing of the opportunities it generates for nefarious actions by the deep state.

It's a boon to government if they control both sides of the war. Much like they do with terrorism, cancer and poverty.

 

[gipper]

Destroy the deep state, and much of this problem would cease.

The Politics of Heroin | Chicago Review Press

The war on drugs by our central government, has been a dismal failure. Just as they have failed with their wars on cancer, terrorism, and poverty. All it does is make government bigger and more tyrannical to say nothing of the opportunities it generates for nefarious actions by the deep state.

It's a boon to government if they control both sides of the war. Much like they do with terrorism, cancer and poverty.

Exactly.

The racketeering by the federal government makes the Mafia look like pikers. Yet millions of Americans are completely unaware.

 

[Jarlaxle]

There has been a pervasive myth that drugs are harmless. Those who speak up just don't want others to have fun. Don't tell me what I can put in my body. Drug use is an expression of freedom.

Oh yeah, vote Gary Johnson.

Urine idiot.

 

[WillowTree]

Destroy the deep state, and much of this problem would cease.

The Politics of Heroin | Chicago Review Press

The war on drugs by our central government, has been a dismal failure. Just as they have failed with their wars on cancer, terrorism, and poverty. All it does is make government bigger and more tyrannical to say nothing of the opportunities it generates for nefarious actions by the deep state.

You are correct. Just stop the war on drugs. Let them take their drugs til they die. It's their body, their choice.

 

[MarathonMike]

Heroin doesn't care what color you are or where you live or if you are rich or poor. It is a huge problem everywhere. There are cities like Huntington that are getting hit harder than others but it is in every big city and a lot of small towns too. It is not like other drugs It is almost instantly addictive and is a killer. You aren't going to die from weed.

 

[MikeK]

You are correct. Just stop the war on drugs. Let them take their drugs til they die. It's their body, their choice.

Do you think the War on Drugs actually serves to limit the use of recreational substances?

Are you aware that any type of drug one wishes to buy is readily available within a mile or two (usually within a block or two) of any inhabited part of the U.S.? And do you know that drugs actually are more available today than when Reagan escalated Nixon's already futile drug war?

Einstein is credited with saying, "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity." While that axiom might apply in most examples of persistent futility the drug war is an exception. Because the reason for continuing to do the same things over and over again for decades, as in the drug war example, is not insanity -- it's corruption.

It is corruption manifest in the vigorous lobbying of the Congress by representatives of the legal profession, the Fraternal Order of Police, the drug-testing industry, the prison industrial complex, the law-enforcement industrial complex, the liquor industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and by a host of do-gooder, holy-roller organizations which consist of ignorant nitwits who believe that if recreational drugs were made as available as beverage alcohol everyone in America (except them) would run right out and become addicts.

These lobbying groups put forth millions of dollars in campaign "contributions" (bribes) to ensure uninterrupted continuation of the utterly futile, wholly counterproductive drug war, year after year.

 

[Yarddog]

This city has been decimated by heroin. There have been numerous overdoses and the next generation is going to be affected. What is going on in this city? Has the culture deteriorated? What are the reasons this place is the drug death capitol of the US?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/health/huntington-heroin/

A father morns the loss of his son to a over dose.

Culture dissinigration

 

[rcfieldz]

Heroin doesn't kill people.
sticking it in your arm with a needle does.

 

[WillowTree]

You are correct. Just stop the war on drugs. Let them take their drugs til they die. It's their body, their choice.

Do you think the War on Drugs actually serves to limit the use of recreational substances?

Are you aware that any type of drug one wishes to buy is readily available within a mile or two (usually within a block or two) of any inhabited part of the U.S.? And do you know that drugs actually are more available today than when Reagan escalated Nixon's already futile drug war?

Einstein is credited with saying, "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity." While that axiom might apply in most examples of persistent futility the drug war is an exception. Because the reason for continuing to do the same things over and over again for decades, as in the drug war example, is not insanity -- it's corruption.

It is corruption manifest in the vigorous lobbying of the Congress by representatives of the legal profession, the Fraternal Order of Police, the drug-testing industry, the prison industrial complex, the law-enforcement industrial complex, the liquor industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and by a host of do-gooder, holy-roller organizations which consist of ignorant nitwits who believe that if recreational drugs were made as available as beverage alcohol everyone in America (except them) would run right out and become addicts.

These lobbying groups put forth millions of dollars in campaign "contributions" (bribes) to ensure uninterrupted continuation of the utterly futile, wholly counterproductive drug war, year after year.

What part of end the war on drugs did you not understand? I said let them take their drugs until they die it is their body their choice. Do you have a problem with that?

 

[MikeK]

IOW, this problem will only get worse if HRC is elected.

It's going to get worse regardless of which of these two dreadful choices is elected. The drug war puts money in a lot of influential pockets -- and the clandestine acquisition of money is what both Trump and Clinton are about.

If you have the slightest doubt of that just give some casual thought to the fact that the War on Drugs has been vigorously supported by government ever since Reagan escalated it in 1982 but drugs are more available today than they were back then. Yet the beat goes on, day after day, year after year, and no-one pays the slightest bit of attention to the fact that the only thing that nothing changes except the constantly increasing cost of this folly and expansion of the circus being performed by an army of drug cops of various kinds.

 

[MikeK]

What part of end the war on drugs did you not understand? I said let them take their drugs until they die it is their body their choice. Do you have a problem with that?

I have a problem with moronically simplistic suggestions as to a more intelligent and constructive solution to the problem of misuse of recreational substances.