Posted on 11/01/2017 7:05:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
We shouldn’t be guarding Poppy fields in Afghanistan EITHER!
But here we are, guarding the fields in Afghanistan, and having an opium problem in the US, meanwhile the countries that hate us make tons of money growing and trafficking in heroin...
Afghanistan - Hates us, we guard the poppy fields
Mexico - Hates us, we still have porous borders that heroin pours across...
Many countries in between hate us that gets Scratch from the trafficking..
I am not saying we should legalize or anything, but right now, “Boy are we DUMB” to quote President Donald Trump!
y understanding is that large part of the problem is because of prescriptions. That is a legal process which may be abused.
U.S. citizens do not have the intestinal fortitude to do what is necessary to stop drugs.
some of us just don’t care. You want to mess up your life, it’s a free country. You violate law, then go to jail.
Drug prohibition, next to slavery was the worst social policy ever enacted.
People are living off the grid and are being forced to work and live in the gray market as a direct result of more and more oppressive and intrusive government regulations.
Where I used to live - I could not even have a garage sale without a city permit. I could not even have a plumber replace a hot water heater without a permit. So yeah. Some guy in a plain white van replaced the water heater.
Some guy who was likely an illegal and was also living just fine - off the grid.
The streets are flooded with heroin. Heroin that people initially start off smoking and pretty quickly start injecting. Smoking something is a lot less scary then injecting. (especially dangerous when half the country is now smoking marijuana on a regular basis--I smell it everywhere these days) Users and experimenters always think it won't happen to them, they can control it. They are different.
People who use drugs, typically DO have a drug of choice but never balk at other forms of getting high when the DOC isn't available or stacking the high with other drugs.
Crazy notion
There is no opiod crisis
It’s just usual follow the money hyteria
Drug prohibition, next to slavery was the worst social policy ever enacted.
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Maybe where you live, but I wouldn’t know. I live here in the USA where “drug prohibition” is a fallacy. A joke played on us citizens by our government who has profited handsomely off the so call War on Drugs.
Works pretty well in Singapore.
Indeed.
How and why people here in the USA moan and groan about “drug prohibition” laws should buy a clue.
Uh, that’s what I said.
“You’re not going to get addicted from a single Rx. They’ll give you, what, 30 pills?”
30 doses of a strong opiate is quite sufficient to develop an addiction.
Executing drug dealers will reduce the problem considerably.
IOW, AMA drug dealers. Instead of healing the problem they sell a relief. By appointment with guaranteed payment by Medicaid in a lot of cases. No better than a street dealer.
Off-the-grid living would become less attractive with the change to a Fair Tax system. Off the grid means no prebate, yet you still pay the sales tax on your purchases.
this after all these years when the libtards telling us that if we legalize drugs, people will be sensible about it...
But then we'd have a doctor shortage ...
research the Joint Commission on national pain protocols and how the push to treat pain was MANDATED....drs had little choice and little discretion....neither did hospitals...
thus, the widespread prescribing of opioids...
however, our problem today is more a problem of drug seekers using any means...frequent ER visits, vague symptoms, vague injuries, easy access to disability...and if that don't work, steal from the old people who seem to stockpile drugs, or rob and steal so you can buy drugs....
you would not believe how many people get early disability for knee or back problems and get free money and free drugs...
we are being scammed....
Agreed.
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