Posted on 09/22/2007 10:02:18 PM PDT by VxH
And strawberry isn't the only flavor being targeted at kids:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Flavored+meth
This madness will continue until we start to treat drug dealers like the murderers that they are.
The problem is the funding for anti-drug & treatment programs. Get rid of it, and druggies will think twice about wrecking their bodies knowing that their medical care won’t be paid for.
[Get rid of it, and druggies will think twice about wrecking their bodies ]
The poison cited in the subject article is made to taste like candy - to be consumed by children.
This is a weapon of mass destruction - aimed at our children.
The vast majority of meth in the US today is being imported via Mexico.
[This madness will continue until we start to treat drug dealers like the murderers that they are.]
They're not only murders, they are terrorists; targeting a WMD against our children.
People should be outraged.
Also, an article like this, dated from January 2007 does not belong on front page.
If you want to stop this drug, you need to kill the demand for it. Stop letting methheads go to the ER and using Medicaid to get treated, they'll get the hint and stop using the drug. There's already harsh penalties for producing meth, hell you can't even buy cough syrup without 2 forms of ID now. But you cannot repeal the law of supply and demand.
I originally intended to post this article,
DEA: Flavored meth use on the rise
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-25-flavored-meth_N.htm
but not allowed because of USAToday
I forgot to change the title when posting the alternate article. Apologies for the mistake.
[Also, an article like this, dated from January 2007 does not belong on front page.]
I disagree. Our attention has been diverted and it SHOULD have been on Frontpage in January.
Meanwhile meth is a scourge that is decimating our heartland.
I live in Reno (30 mins North of Carson City). I’m a parent of small children as well as a foster parent. As a foster parent we are trained on all the new drugs on the street (particulary since most of the kids in care right now have parents addicted to meth or have been exposed in some way - even the newborns).
The new strawberry meth is insidiously dangerous because it’s already found it’s way to elementary school campuses in our area. It seems that there may be some kids in elementary school with parents or older siblings who deal. They give out (not sell) the “candy” to the very young in order to ensare them early. Nothing like securing future business.
It has gotten so bad that NO candy is permitted on school grounds (outside of a supervised classroom party). If anyone is caught eating or giving out any kind of candy on the playground or around school property, they’ll be hauled in.
The strawberry meth looks like a pink Jolly Rancher candy. They even have it on “a stick”, so you can eat it like a sucker. It’s vile and sickening. I get the pleasure of helping to pick up the pieces of the shattered little lives this addiction causes.
Unfortunately, Washoe County has now because the Meth Capital of the US. We’ve practically lost a whole generation of parents to Meth over here.
> I don’t see meth dealers giving it to children as children don’t have money. Of course, if they do, then they should be shot on sight.
I have seen teenage kids on P-Methamphetamine, and it ain’t pretty.
And of course you are right: their pushers ought to be publicly hanged.
Hmmm...
[The strawberry meth looks like a pink Jolly Rancher candy. They even have it on a stick, so you can eat it like a sucker. Its vile and sickening. I get the pleasure of helping to pick up the pieces of the shattered little lives this addiction causes.]
expatguy posted a link that says this is just a rumor:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1900877/posts?page=10#8
[Hmmm...]
Pretty pathetic isn’t it.
Maybe it’s because the amount of money involved provides a mighty temptation for small town LEO’s (or maybe LEOINO’s) to look the other way.
Now you stop that racist bigot talk. You are insulting our friendly neighbors to the south. We must give them what they want. Our Gubmint says so.
It’s also become common with cocaine, especially vanilla flavoured from what i hear.
They are saying that cocaine use in hollywood etc is at an all time high, not surprising at all. I can almost notice it 75% of the time on late night talk shows. It’s the one drug where you can almost come off as ‘normal’ to others, in small amounts anywya. not chatterboxing/grinding your teeth amounts. Meth is just sh*t, period.
how about some flavoured cigarettes over here?
-hunter
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Get rid of it, and druggies will think twice about wrecking their bodies knowing that their medical care wont be paid for.
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Are you kidding me? They don’t think twice about anything. They do what they do regardless. You could enact a death penalty for posession of drugs and they would go right ahead and keep doing it.
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