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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 28, 2022 3:41:07 GMT
will it be just another excuse to takeaway freedoms and exert more Govt?
Washington Post
Here's what the deadliest drug-related public health crisis in American history looks like
Salwan Georges and Kevin Sieff, (c) 2022, The Washington Post Mon, December 26, 2022 at 2:43 PM CST
It's one fentanyl overdose every seven minutes. Teams of paramedics responding to frantic emergency calls, trying to revive victims, often arriving too late.
The deceased are sometimes sprawled out in the dark, as if they were shot, but the accessories to death are needles or pills or powder, strewn next to the bodies. The fentanyl they consume - in some cases unsuspectingly - is trafficked into the United States in hatchbacks and sedans, stashed in trailer parks and homes that are occasionally the sites of dramatic busts. But law enforcement officials now recognize their limits: They seize only a fraction of the fentanyl that enters the United States.
It is not only an American crisis. Fentanyl is now manufactured in Mexico - and it flows through the country on its way to the border. Much of it remains in cities like Tijuana, where communities of deportees have become addicts. Paramedics there are stretched even thinner than their American counterparts, trying to save overdose victims in a country where naloxone, which reverses the effect of opioids, is almost impossible to find.
In Tijuana, the trafficking of synthetic drugs like fentanyl has prompted a surge of violence - and it's the users who are frequently victims. They sleep outside, next to heaps of garbage, sometimes swallowed up by feuds with the men who sell them fentanyl. Traffickers and dealers have taken over much of the city, converting even piñata factories into fronts for their drug businesses.
Mexican authorities seize thousands of pounds of drugs there a month. Much of it is stored as evidence in a converted garage - even though many fentanyl cases never come to trial. Vast quantities are incinerated at a military outpost outside Tijuana. But most of the fentanyl makes it to the border and then across it, a bulk destined for the thousands of Americans who will die almost immediately after consuming the drug.
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Post by Prometheus on Dec 28, 2022 5:39:22 GMT
Heaven help us that the US government should ever actually try to meet its mandate....
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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 28, 2022 6:46:30 GMT
Has anyone even seen the cost of the new Street Sweepers? It's insane  |
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Post by merh on Dec 28, 2022 20:06:57 GMT
will it be just another excuse to takeaway freedoms and exert more Govt?
Washington Post
Here's what the deadliest drug-related public health crisis in American history looks like
Salwan Georges and Kevin Sieff, (c) 2022, The Washington Post Mon, December 26, 2022 at 2:43 PM CST
It's one fentanyl overdose every seven minutes. Teams of paramedics responding to frantic emergency calls, trying to revive victims, often arriving too late.
The deceased are sometimes sprawled out in the dark, as if they were shot, but the accessories to death are needles or pills or powder, strewn next to the bodies. The fentanyl they consume - in some cases unsuspectingly - is trafficked into the United States in hatchbacks and sedans, stashed in trailer parks and homes that are occasionally the sites of dramatic busts. But law enforcement officials now recognize their limits: They seize only a fraction of the fentanyl that enters the United States.
It is not only an American crisis. Fentanyl is now manufactured in Mexico - and it flows through the country on its way to the border. Much of it remains in cities like Tijuana, where communities of deportees have become addicts. Paramedics there are stretched even thinner than their American counterparts, trying to save overdose victims in a country where naloxone, which reverses the effect of opioids, is almost impossible to find.
In Tijuana, the trafficking of synthetic drugs like fentanyl has prompted a surge of violence - and it's the users who are frequently victims. They sleep outside, next to heaps of garbage, sometimes swallowed up by feuds with the men who sell them fentanyl. Traffickers and dealers have taken over much of the city, converting even piñata factories into fronts for their drug businesses.
Mexican authorities seize thousands of pounds of drugs there a month. Much of it is stored as evidence in a converted garage - even though many fentanyl cases never come to trial. Vast quantities are incinerated at a military outpost outside Tijuana. But most of the fentanyl makes it to the border and then across it, a bulk destined for the thousands of Americans who will die almost immediately after consuming the drug.
You want to legalize all drugs. Make up your mind |
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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 29, 2022 0:10:21 GMT
will it be just another excuse to takeaway freedoms and exert more Govt?
Washington Post
Here's what the deadliest drug-related public health crisis in American history looks like You want to legalize all drugs. Make up your mind
I do want all drugs legalized. Because it's clear the war on drugs is futile.
If you can't convince a woman by the age of 41 that she shouldn't be smuggling drugs......what real hope do you have?
Or are you gonna whip out a sad tale of how she probably was only making 70 Cents on the dollar compared to her male coworkers? So she was forced to be involved in the drug trade?
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Post by merh on Dec 30, 2022 12:37:38 GMT
You want to legalize all drugs. Make up your mind
I do want all drugs legalized. Because it's clear the war on drugs is futile.
If you can't convince a woman by the age of 41 that she shouldn't be smuggling drugs......what real hope do you have?
Or are you gonna whip out a sad tale of how she probably was only making 70 Cents on the dollar compared to her male coworkers? So she was forced to be involved in the drug trade?
Who knows why she wanted the money? Maybe she needed it to keep her house. Most of my clients it was a spur of the minute saying yes to an opportunity to make some "easy cash". The drug dealers are unknown to the person carrying who is taking all risk of carrying the package through the areas law enforcement might catch them. All the whine about how deadly fentanyl is, yet people are doing it still. |
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Post by abbey1227 on Dec 30, 2022 14:51:48 GMT
I do want all drugs legalized. Because it's clear the war on drugs is futile.
If you can't convince a woman by the age of 41 that she shouldn't be smuggling drugs......what real hope do you have?
Or are you gonna whip out a sad tale of how she probably was only making 70 Cents on the dollar compared to her male coworkers? So she was forced to be involved in the drug trade?
Who knows why she wanted the money? Maybe she needed it to keep her house. Most of my clients it was a spur of the minute saying yes to an opportunity to make some "easy cash". The drug dealers are unknown to the person carrying who is taking all risk of carrying the package through the areas law enforcement might catch them. All the whine about how deadly fentanyl is, yet people are doing it still.
There's a reason most criminals are between Teen and 25-30.........it's called maturing and growing out of law breaking. It still surprises me to see ages older than that in serious crimes.
Easy almost always means high risk/illegal.
YES, they are. So why are we even bothering to try to stop them? Let them weed themselves out of the gene pool......hopefully before they have too many kids.
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Post by Prometheus on Dec 31, 2022 0:03:02 GMT
Who knows why she wanted the money? Maybe she needed it to keep her house. Most of my clients it was a spur of the minute saying yes to an opportunity to make some "easy cash". The drug dealers are unknown to the person carrying who is taking all risk of carrying the package through the areas law enforcement might catch them. All the whine about how deadly fentanyl is, yet people are doing it still.
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YES, they are. So why are we even bothering to try to stop them? Let them weed themselves out of the gene pool......hopefully before they have too many kids.
But let's not chase after those drug dealers. They are entrepreneurial go-getters whose right to make money needs to be protected!
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Post by merh on Jan 1, 2023 3:44:24 GMT
Who knows why she wanted the money? Maybe she needed it to keep her house. Most of my clients it was a spur of the minute saying yes to an opportunity to make some "easy cash". The drug dealers are unknown to the person carrying who is taking all risk of carrying the package through the areas law enforcement might catch them. All the whine about how deadly fentanyl is, yet people are doing it still.
There's a reason most criminals are between Teen and 25-30.........it's called maturing and growing out of law breaking. It still surprises me to see ages older than that in serious crimes.
Easy almost always means high risk/illegal.
YES, they are. So why are we even bothering to try to stop them? Let them weed themselves out of the gene pool......hopefully before they have too many kids.
Dude, I had my share of clients older than me. Sad when the clients were over 60. |
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 1, 2023 3:56:42 GMT
Dude, I had my share of clients older than me. Sad when the clients were over 60.
That's just plain sad.
How did you even talk to them? Were they retarded? or just that institutionalized?
Or has the punishment part been so diluted, that it's more appealing than the real world?
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Post by merh on Jan 1, 2023 19:57:54 GMT
Dude, I had my share of clients older than me. Sad when the clients were over 60.
That's just plain sad.
How did you even talk to them? Were they retarded? or just that institutionalized?
Or has the punishment part been so diluted, that it's more appealing than the real world?
No. They weren't retarded. The people in their 30s & 40s were methheads. Then it shifted to cocaine. The 60+ crowd were more often busted for cocaine. Or desperate. Stuck in old patterns. DUIs Shoplifting alcohol Selling drugs to pad income Shopping prescriptions Writing bad checks. Stealing from employers. Stealing from old people in their care. |
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 2, 2023 10:31:53 GMT
No. They weren't retarded. The people in their 30s & 40s were methheads. Then it shifted to cocaine. The 60+ crowd were more often busted for cocaine.Or desperate. Stuck in old patterns. DUIs Shoplifting alcohol Selling drugs to pad income Shopping prescriptions Writing bad checks. Stealing from employers. Stealing from old people in their care.
So the drug of choice depended on their age? Weird
That last one is bound to become a more common crime in the near future, I predict. Like the Liberal Sherpa that just got arrested
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Post by merh on Jan 3, 2023 16:07:55 GMT
No. They weren't retarded. The people in their 30s & 40s were methheads. Then it shifted to cocaine. The 60+ crowd were more often busted for cocaine.Or desperate. Stuck in old patterns. DUIs Shoplifting alcohol Selling drugs to pad income Shopping prescriptions Writing bad checks. Stealing from employers. Stealing from old people in their care.
So the drug of choice depended on their age? Weird
That last one is bound to become a more common crime in the near future, I predict. Like the Liberal Sherpa that just got arrested
It's already a huge crime, dude. Lots of people being cared for. Often it's theft of jewelry or outright using checks or ATM access to bank accounts. Often to buy drugs. Usually it's seen as "owed" to the thief. They aren't being paid enough Or mom/dad is going to give it to me after they die but I need it now. Like.my husband taking stuff from his mom to sell. She was never going to miss it, right? Not that she was innocent My husband got disability after that motorcycle accident. She kept it as her money. She actually got mad at me because she failed to tell Social Security he got married & moved out so she had to pay back all that money-about a year's worth. "If you had just lived together instead of getting married, I wouldn't have to pay it back!" Money |
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 3, 2023 16:11:32 GMT
and such pitiful amounts, when you really think about it
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