Posted on 02/02/2015 12:31:29 PM PST by C19fan
Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of Guerrero.
The multibillion-dollar Mexican opium trade starts here, with poppy farmers so poor they live in wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.
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Only liberals think you can successfully fight the law of supply and demand.
They can't handle reality, so they kill themselves. They break into houses, and democrats lose property, or the addicts get shot. Either way...
Cleaning things up when they are dead is why the cops earn the big bucks.
As long as their is money to be made...
Let Colorado lead the way with sustainable drug use. Fence it off, make all drugs legal there and keep the rest of America sustainably safe for every one else.
Surprised Michelle isn’t growing these in the white house garden for daddy and friends.
Fight it? All Obama has to do is sign a memo to repeal it.
***poppy farmers so poor they live in wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.****
America’s Libs should DEMAND that the heroin suppliers and sellers pay their growers a LIVING WAGE!
After all, they demand Sears, Penneys, Walmart, and others force Bangladeshi sweat shop owners pay their garment workers decently!
“wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.” Boo f’in hoo...
My 1st husband always said hardcore drug addiction was a self-cancelling problem, and didn’t see why so much money and time was devoted to stopping the unstoppable-I’ve always thought he was right-I don’t like my tax dollars wasted on an exercise in futility year after year.
BTW, lots of farmers and even people with town-type jobs in remote areas live like that right here in the US-areas of Alaska, where the ground never thaws so you can dig for a septic system, for instance. There are people living in shacks of all kinds right here, by choice-some to save money, others because they don’t want to miss the extras when the SHTF-but they do have electricity, wood stoves and septic tanks...
It might be there-the 1st heifer doesn’t get off her ass to go into that garden except for photo ops-the secret service guys could be tending those poppies and she’d never know it...
It may or may not be a surprise to you to find out that is how most of the worlds population lives.
“...and didn’t see why so much money and time was devoted to stopping the unstoppable”
I would say well over half our domestic problems are due to drug use. People loafing around on the government dole...often drug users. Read about a murder in the paper...usually involved drugs. Window smashed and car stereo gone...desperate people (ie addicted people) do that...and commit most petty crime.
I’m not here to defend the war on drugs....but I don’t pretend that drug use should be left unchecked.
How about - if you have been convicted of a drug crime in the last 5 years, you must be drug tested to get gubmint assistance. Not everybody on welfare...just the known drug users.
This remote area I live in is poor and depressed-snowbirds don’t have the money to winter here any more, businesses closed, empty vaca cabins, etc, and yes, there are meth labs out here. We don’t have much crime, in spite of those things-maybe because pretty much all of us are armed and know how to shoot. It is not that uncommon for a criminal to be shot, whether petty thief or would-be murderer.
As far as I’m concerned, if someone is idiot enough to kill themselves getting stoned, that just makes them a Darwin award contender-and if you are able bodied, you get your ass to work-no welfare-I don’t care if that job is mucking out stables on some dude ranch-you won’t be getting stoned or committing crimes if you need to keep a job or be homeless and without even welfare. That would deprive a bunch or illegals of work, too-they’d go home.
My 1st husband always said hardcore drug addiction was a self-cancelling problem, and didn’t see why so much money and time was devoted to stopping the unstoppable
We're currently running tests in CO and WA to see if thats true. I know DUIs are way up in Colorado because of legal drug use. And that's just pot. The problem with letting drug user just self cancel themselves is they often cancel out non users out on their way to canceling themselves.
Amen!
You'd be surprised. The fastest-growing areas of heroin use are rural, and are among people who became addicted to prescription drugs.
Just about any probation arrangement includes drug testing.
Traffic deaths in CO are at near record lows. So is crime.
According to the local news there have been 300 driving while stoned tickets since pot was legalized. Hardly an epidemic.
The really bad thing about legal pot is all the out of state pot tourists. They drive like the morons they are. Even before they get to the pot shops.
Neither stat has much to do with my comment. Deaths aren't much changed since the law passed. Of the deaths and injuries that do occur, what percentage are linked to legal pot use. The current pot DUI rate is about 12% as far as I can tell. Are pot DUIs up or down in the last year? Sorting out the trand will take some years but it isn't a promissing start.
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