Illegal drugs in America

[Maryland Patriot]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

This a pretty standard view. It is the paradigm we have been operating under for decades.
In most communities with an active undercover police presence, drug dealing is a state sponsored monopoly.
Deception, manipulation, tricks, traps, and snares are an efficient way to fill prisons. This seems to be the goal.

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

 

[foggedinn]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

This a pretty standard view. It is the paradigm we have been operating under for decades.
In most communities with an active undercover police presence, drug dealing is a state sponsored monopoly.
Deception, manipulation, tricks, traps, and snares are an efficient way to fill prisons. This seems to be the goal.

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

This a pretty standard view. It is the paradigm we have been operating under for decades.
In most communities with an active undercover police presence, drug dealing is a state sponsored monopoly.
Deception, manipulation, tricks, traps, and snares are an efficient way to fill prisons. This seems to be the goal.

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

 

[Contumacious]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

This a pretty standard view. It is the paradigm we have been operating under for decades.
In most communities with an active undercover police presence, drug dealing is a state sponsored monopoly.
Deception, manipulation, tricks, traps, and snares are an efficient way to fill prisons. This seems to be the goal.

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

This a pretty standard view. It is the paradigm we have been operating under for decades.
In most communities with an active undercover police presence, drug dealing is a state sponsored monopoly.
Deception, manipulation, tricks, traps, and snares are an efficient way to fill prisons. This seems to be the goal.

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

Thanks to the socialists and their universal health care, I think its safe to say that right should be lost.
Why should we allow people to do something that is going to affect our cost of health care?
And honestly? those laws have to be in place to keep stupid people from hurting themselves.
Your right to medicate is not a right to take a chance with other peoples lives because you are too fucked up to operate your car on the highway.

 

[Contumacious]

This a pretty standard view. It is the paradigm we have been operating under for decades.
In most communities with an active undercover police presence, drug dealing is a state sponsored monopoly.
Deception, manipulation, tricks, traps, and snares are an efficient way to fill prisons. This seems to be the goal.

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

Thanks to the socialists and their universal health care, I think its safe to say that right should be lost.
Why should we allow people to do something that is going to affect our cost of health care?
And honestly? those laws have to be in place to keep stupid people from hurting themselves.
Your right to medicate is not a right to take a chance with other peoples lives because you are too fucked up to operate your car on the highway.

HUH?

So now you are going to claim that you own your neighbors because of universal health care?


Fedgov has no qualms about placing us in harms way by meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Is that ALSO going to stop?

Or are you just a crazed son of a bitch?

.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

Thanks to the socialists and their universal health care, I think its safe to say that right should be lost.
Why should we allow people to do something that is going to affect our cost of health care?
And honestly? those laws have to be in place to keep stupid people from hurting themselves.
Your right to medicate is not a right to take a chance with other peoples lives because you are too fucked up to operate your car on the highway.

HUH?

So now you are going to claim that you own your neighbors because of universal health care?


Fedgov has no qualms about placing us in harms way by meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Is that ALSO going to stop?

Or are you just a crazed son of a bitch?

.

I don't actually have any neighbors, Im not poor, thus I do not have to live in a neighborhood.
That being said, yes, if I have to pay for someone's healthcare, I should have a say in how the live their life as far as health factors go.
Or exclude any medical bill that comes about due to drug use from insurance. Shouldn't be a problem to people like you since you tell us drugs are safe.
Insurance companies already have regulations about people that engage in risky activities.

 

[Contumacious]

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

Thanks to the socialists and their universal health care, I think its safe to say that right should be lost.
Why should we allow people to do something that is going to affect our cost of health care?
And honestly? those laws have to be in place to keep stupid people from hurting themselves.
Your right to medicate is not a right to take a chance with other peoples lives because you are too fucked up to operate your car on the highway.

HUH?

So now you are going to claim that you own your neighbors because of universal health care?


Fedgov has no qualms about placing us in harms way by meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Is that ALSO going to stop?

Or are you just a crazed son of a bitch?

.

I don't actually have any neighbors, Im not poor, thus I do not have to live in a neighborhood.
That being said, yes, if I have to pay for someone's healthcare, I should have a say in how the live their life as far as health factors go.
Or exclude any medical bill that comes about due to drug use from insurance. Shouldn't be a problem to people like you since you tell us drugs are safe.
Insurance companies already have regulations about people that engage in risky activities.

Whether or not using "drugs" should be up to an individual's health care provider.

Don't want to pay for Obama Hellcare talk to Harry Reid (D-USSR).

Meanwhile mind your business and sop interfering in other's people's lives.


.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

Thanks to the socialists and their universal health care, I think its safe to say that right should be lost.
Why should we allow people to do something that is going to affect our cost of health care?
And honestly? those laws have to be in place to keep stupid people from hurting themselves.
Your right to medicate is not a right to take a chance with other peoples lives because you are too fucked up to operate your car on the highway.

HUH?

So now you are going to claim that you own your neighbors because of universal health care?


Fedgov has no qualms about placing us in harms way by meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Is that ALSO going to stop?

Or are you just a crazed son of a bitch?

.

I don't actually have any neighbors, Im not poor, thus I do not have to live in a neighborhood.
That being said, yes, if I have to pay for someone's healthcare, I should have a say in how the live their life as far as health factors go.
Or exclude any medical bill that comes about due to drug use from insurance. Shouldn't be a problem to people like you since you tell us drugs are safe.
Insurance companies already have regulations about people that engage in risky activities.

Whether or not using "drugs" should be up to an individual's health care provider.

Don't want to pay for Obama Hellcare talk to Harry Reid (D-USSR).

Meanwhile mind your business and sop interfering in other's people's lives.


.

Stop interfering in other peoples lives?
tell me something, when the left comes up with a new freebie and expects me to contribute more of my income to pay for it, are they interfering in my life? maybe my ability to feed my family, make my mortgage payment, go on a vacation?
Is that interference? by taking my earned income to give it to someone else, aren't they in essence dictating what I can or can not do in life?
When the left stops interfering in my life, I might consider getting out of theirs, until then, I have no choice but to fight them in order to keep my earned money and maintain my personal quality of life.

 

[initforme]

The drug war is long lost. Its so out of control and there is so much money involved that's its bigger than a country can handle. Next issue. I knew of many professional white collar people who were/are pot users. One would never think they were...highly successful, very moral people. But even they had a vice. Their way(a bad way) of coping with anxiety.

 

[Contumacious]

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

Thanks to the socialists and their universal health care, I think its safe to say that right should be lost.
Why should we allow people to do something that is going to affect our cost of health care?
And honestly? those laws have to be in place to keep stupid people from hurting themselves.
Your right to medicate is not a right to take a chance with other peoples lives because you are too fucked up to operate your car on the highway.

HUH?

So now you are going to claim that you own your neighbors because of universal health care?


Fedgov has no qualms about placing us in harms way by meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Is that ALSO going to stop?

Or are you just a crazed son of a bitch?

.

I don't actually have any neighbors, Im not poor, thus I do not have to live in a neighborhood.
That being said, yes, if I have to pay for someone's healthcare, I should have a say in how the live their life as far as health factors go.
Or exclude any medical bill that comes about due to drug use from insurance. Shouldn't be a problem to people like you since you tell us drugs are safe.
Insurance companies already have regulations about people that engage in risky activities.

Whether or not using "drugs" should be up to an individual's health care provider.

Don't want to pay for Obama Hellcare talk to Harry Reid (D-USSR).

Meanwhile mind your business and sop interfering in other's people's lives.


.

Stop interfering in other peoples lives?
tell me something, when the left comes up with a new freebie and expects me to contribute more of my income to pay for it, are they interfering in my life? maybe my ability to feed my family, make my mortgage payment, go on a vacation?
Is that interference? by taking my earned income to give it to someone else, aren't they in essence dictating what I can or can not do in life?
When the left stops interfering in my life, I might consider getting out of theirs, until then, I have no choice but to fight them in order to keep my earned money and maintain my personal quality of life.

OK , I get your drift.


.

 

[Jarlaxle]

This a pretty standard view. It is the paradigm we have been operating under for decades.
In most communities with an active undercover police presence, drug dealing is a state sponsored monopoly.
Deception, manipulation, tricks, traps, and snares are an efficient way to fill prisons. This seems to be the goal.

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

Thanks to the socialists and their universal health care, I think its safe to say that right should be lost.
Why should we allow people to do something that is going to affect our cost of health care?
And honestly? those laws have to be in place to keep stupid people from hurting themselves.
Your right to medicate is not a right to take a chance with other peoples lives because you are too fucked up to operate your car on the highway.

So, when do you start pushing for the banning of motorcycles?

 

[kaz]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

You'd have thought when prohibition ended and the mob collaped, we'd have realized morality laws fund the mob and when we end them, the mob loses their funding.

80 years later, the Republicans haven't gotten that memo ...

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Maybe you should do some more research on the damage that drug abuse can do to the body/brain.
take your time to look up some PET scans of the brain of even Marijuana users. Dont forget to look at alcohol users too.
Instead of wondering why marijuana is not legal, you might walk away wondering why alcohol is.
Chronic use of any chemical is not good. Medicinal use maybe but that is where the value ends, you have to weigh the benefits against the negative results.

Agreed.
Truth works better than lies. To call the methodology of undercover " law " is offensive.

Honestly, undercover work is BS when it comes to what most would consider entrapment.
Drug addiction has been qualified as a disease, mostly because it does damage and retrain the brain in such a way that a need for continued use is established. Im pretty sure the police wouldnt go and try to talk someone with schizophrenia into committing a crime just so they can get an arrest.
What needs to be done is what Maryland is FINALLY starting to do. If you get caught with drugs, you are sent to drug court where there is a good chance that you will end up in a rehab instead of jail, for simple marijuana you might just end up on probation with an order to go to a couple NA meetings.
If you are in your house/apartment using something like heroin with others, and God forbid someone overdoses, you can call the EMTs and they will come, the police are not allowed to search the house or take anything they see in the open, they are not allowed to make any arrests. The reason? too many people were found dead from OD alone because those with them were afraid to call.
Because I travel the heroin circuit trying to bring peoples kids out of that environment and into rehab, or other places to help. I carry Naloxon with me at all times.
Jail is not going to help an addict. and the law is slowly starting to understand that.

What needs to be done is remind US "judges" that

Americans are FREE People
Americans have a NINTH Amendment Right to self-medicate
US "judges" need a refresher course to remind them of the above items

Thanks to the socialists and their universal health care, I think its safe to say that right should be lost.
Why should we allow people to do something that is going to affect our cost of health care?
And honestly? those laws have to be in place to keep stupid people from hurting themselves.
Your right to medicate is not a right to take a chance with other peoples lives because you are too fucked up to operate your car on the highway.

So, when do you start pushing for the banning of motorcycles?

Not sure I follow along here.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

There has always been a drug problem in this world. You need to understand how it has grown. Get a script of Oxy 20s and your bill will be over 500 bucks. Get the same amount of pain relief from some horse for about 250 people who can not shell out that kind of money at the local drug store get them from professional dealers on the street. The recent DEA rules are nothing but a farce conducted by the "good doers" who think that restricting the Doctors will reduce the street sale of drugs are jerks. I agree that the pill mills ran by Doctors are a farce and they need to be arrested.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

We have lost the following wars:

War on Drugs
War on Poverty
War on Terror
War on Homelessness
War on Women

It's time to give up and surrender.