Posted on 06/22/2015 3:58:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Dozens of looters and thousands of dollars worth of drugs stolen. The DEA launches billboards to find those who wreaked havoc on Baltimore pharmacies during the Freddie Gray riots.
The billboards are along I-83 and I-95, including one near Hanover Street. Agents say 30 pharmacies were ransacked and close to 300,000 doses of drugs were stolen. The DEA is desperate to put the thieves behind bars.
One pharmacy after the other—bizarre surveillance video from April 27 shows looters grabbing every drug they can get their hands on. Some communities were left with no medication. “Everyone came in that day, we really had no drugs to give them,” said the owner of Care One Pharmacy. Now a desperate attempt to lock up those thieves. Surveillance images of those accused of wiping out 30 pharmacies in Baltimore were blasted on billboards by the DEA. “We’re trying to identify the people, number one, and number two, we’re trying to get some information of the people who could identify other people,” said Sean Ellerman, DEA.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...
Good. So how does making drugs dirty, more expensive than gold and sold by violent gangsters help addicts?
It doesn’t and addicts will ALWAYS get high nomatter what! They will steal from their own mother and risk their own life to buy that gold. And even if you somehow got rid of all drugs, they will get high from their own fermented feces or turpentine.
WOD hurts EVERYONE! Except for gangsters and WOD-related industries stuffing their pockets with blood money...
Done responding to someone crying out for drugs. Your communist drugtopia was bad enough, your rant against “making drugs dirty” convinces me you have serious problems with reality.
And frankly, I am just not interested in your crazy wod talk.
It’s quite simple and logical. If you have a real argument, say it instead of using meaningless buzzwords and personal attack.
I’ll explain very simply:
Drugs available *legally* are ALL dosed, pure and sterile. Making them available to addicts would eliminate most accidental overdoses, poisonings and side effects. Making them cheap or free would eliminate the incentive to steal. Plus one can abuse pure sterile drugs for decades and still have a chance of beating the addiction.
Drugs sold *illegally* are of an unknown dose, not sterile and cut with garbage. This makes addicts guaranteed to get sick and damaged. They end up clogging our medical system and become disabled after only a few years of abuse. Then they are too damaged to work and end up stealing millions of dollars of your property (and fencing it for pennies) to feed their addiction.
Any other things you’d like explained?
There’s no simple solution to the drug abuse problem. Our goal should be the development of public policy that minimizes vice and societal damage in aggregate.
Something like Portugal’s solution seems to be the best policy at this time.
I did. Your ideas are destructive to civilized society.
Portugal, spam away.
In what way?
You think laws forcing addicts to steal, rob and give it all to violent criminals are NOT destructive?
Right now addicts will steal a $100k air conditioner in a single day. Sell it as scrap for $1000 and hand it over to a dealer for $100 worth of product. Or they’ll invade a home and shoot anyone in their way for a fix.
THAT is destruction and you will never eliminate that small percentage of addicts who will do anything to get high. The best thing we can do is give them the drugs they crave, treat them and stop them from stealing.
Many addicts in such programs around the world actually do work during the day and slowly detox from the drugs through careful dosing and therapy. THAT is a FAR better way and FAR CHEAPER for society than locking people in cages.
“Portugal, spam away.”
Yea, it sounds like their policy is exactly what I proposed and WORKING GREAT. From your article:
“Huge open-air drug markets were a common sight at the time in some areas. Since then, the rate of injected drug use has halved to about 0.5 percent of the population, below levels in Britain and Italy. The number of new HIV cases has also declined - the share of injecting drug users fell from about half of all new cases in 2002 to 17.5 percent last year.
Overall drug use in Portugal is now below the European average, according to the EMCDDA. Drug busts by police [on illegal dealers] have also gone up.
“A very big measure of success of the policy is that it brought political acceptance. The new centre-right government includes people who used to be very opposed to it, but no one is trying to reverse it,” said Brendan Hughes, an EMCDDA analyst.
“There is no simple answer if the decriminalization itself is a success or failure. But most of the numbers are going in the right direction,” he said.”
As suspected. You don’t care about the context of my original post. You are just looking to badger someone about “wod”.
I am against drugs because of the obvious destructive reasons. Most first time users don’t see jail and are offered programs. But many people are in jail because of drug influence and you want to create more losers like that - because “drugs aren’t dirty”.
This reply is more than you deserve so make it last -Lol!
Goodnight.
"The business was bad, my life became just the work-home routine. I took to heroin again to forget," he says. "But I knew heroin was going to destroy me, and I have a daughter now ... So I rushed to the centre and they gave me another chance."This poor man struggles against what you are pushing here - drugs "that are not dirty". Shame.
The economic issues in the article are a result of the generally poor Euro economy. When looking independently at drug abuse stats, ALL indicators in Portugal have improved.
I’m not “pushing” anything. I’m showing the best solution to the addiction problem.
The man in the story was in pain and would have gotten drugs nomatter what if he wanted them. When you are in enough pain to abuse drugs, you won’t care about stealing or laws. And there is no shortage of dealers under prohibition because profit is so high.
And In the case you cite, the EXACT system I described saved him and gave him a “another chance”. Here he would be locked in a cage, his daughter placed in a home (to become an addict too) and they both would have become sick/dead from contaminated drugs (after stealing $millions worth of things)
Thanks for helping to prove my point
Meanwhile, the share of injecting drug users who sought help via the agency's centers doubled last year to 14 percent and looks set to rise further, though it still remains well below the peak of 36 percent registered in 2000.When numbers are looked at by people seeking help to get off drugs, those numbers will naturally be down after decimalization because police are not enforcing so there is less incentive and opportunity for people to seek treatment."We see more drug use linked to desperation - mostly heroin, the comfort drug," Goulao said. "There's no doubt the economic and social conditions are making the drug phenomenon worse."
The real story is: "injecting drug users who sought help via the agency's centers doubled last year to 14 percent and looks set to rise further."
That tells you drug abuse is really skyrocketing because of decriminalization. So much so that even having less money in a basket-case economy of a country you want to be like, doesn’t stop more and more people from using drugs. Drugs that "are not dirty" to your warped way of thinking... probably illness.
decimalization = decriminalization.
Goodnight and goodbye.
Btw- spam the other drugs pusher with wod. Thank you.
As you said, THOSE numbers are based on people seeking help. They are variable based on many factors.
That’s why I didn’t use those numbers and cited the overall stats: “OVERALL drug use in Portugal is now below the European average”
Less OVERALL drug use with decriminalization than nations that criminalize. PERIOD. You can’t get more clear than that.
“Drugs that “are not dirty” to your warped way of thinking... probably illness.”
Please. Enough personal attack. “Dirty” means disease, contaminants and cutting agents. Something NOT found in legal drugs. Heroin, cocaine and meth are all currently available LEGAL at the pharmacy right now (with an Rx). These drugs can be prescribed by a doctor and are not toxic when clean and properly dosed (yes, even meth can be Rx). Does that now answer what “clean” means?
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