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Given the epidemic of opioid abuse and tainted heroin on the streets of America and Canada, our neighbors to the north will allow prescriptions for pharmaceutical grade heroin in an effort to stem the problem of overdoses. Good idea or an idea concocted by a hoser ? What say you?
1 posted on 09/14/2016 12:55:42 PM PDT by buckalfa
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To: buckalfa

Hollywood is moving to Canada for sure now


2 posted on 09/14/2016 1:03:21 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: buckalfa

We’ve had Methadone treatment centers here for decades. I don’t know how different that is from the real thing.


3 posted on 09/14/2016 1:06:38 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Why Not , what could go wrong with that? sarc needed?


4 posted on 09/14/2016 1:09:42 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: buckalfa

Could someone order this from, say, an apartment in New York City? Maybe get a 90 minute delivery on September 11?


5 posted on 09/14/2016 1:20:30 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: buckalfa

Could someone order this from, say, an apartment in New York City? Maybe get a 90 minute delivery on September 11?


6 posted on 09/14/2016 1:22:26 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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Good idea. Especially if it is in conjunction with weaning them off of it and helping them get effective treatment.


7 posted on 09/14/2016 1:22:51 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: buckalfa

I have a better idea. Canada can help build the wall.


9 posted on 09/14/2016 1:24:54 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
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To: buckalfa

Seems like nothing more than honesty to me. We’ve got a raft of opioids we prescribe in this country, frequently lying to ourselves and saying the aren’t addictive. No real reason not to make the real thing OK.


10 posted on 09/14/2016 1:25:20 PM PDT by discostu (If you need to load or unload go to the white zone, you'll love it, it's a way of life)
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To: buckalfa

I wrote the following in 2011...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2729674/posts

...and some laughed at my speculations. I can’t say I blame them because they sounded to ridiculous to take seriously. But I was only following the obvious logic the social engineers put forward, to its end.

Well here we are, and my speculations are coming true. It seems to be happening in Canada and not the U.S.... thus far.

But don’t think for a second the social engineers here in the states are not watching this Canadian program with an eye towards adopting it.


11 posted on 09/14/2016 1:27:49 PM PDT by Al Gore Vidal
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It didnt take long for rogue chemists to work up batches of fentanyl - synthetic heroin - and then it didn't take long for most distributers to realize you can bump up your weak heroin product with a little fentanyl to make it seem like really good stuff.

Problem: fentanyl is Super Potent and you are working with microgram amounts. Too much and your clients stop breathing. Lets just say the quality control laboratories of the distributors are not so good and Viola you have overdoses.

IF your priority is to prevent overdoses then place some comeptitive pressure on the market by supplying quality-controlled (government dope) stuff on the street. It sends the local "entrepreneurs" crazy - but they now must UP their quality control measures accordingly (to have a comeptitive product). Fewer overdoses.

But its a messy business and the idea of government-supplied dope makes most tax paying workers' stomach churn with resentment.

12 posted on 09/14/2016 1:30:32 PM PDT by corkoman
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Too bad the DEA just banned Kratom, a perfectly healthy herb used for decades to wean off of Opiates, for “safety”.

If people could buy something for price of a cup of coffee that got them clean, then how would all of the bureaucrats and pharma execs be able to vacation at St. Bart's anymore?

13 posted on 09/14/2016 1:34:58 PM PDT by Shadow44
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I don’t think that government-directed provision of high-grade heroin to addicts is going to help with the addiction problem.

Legalize a problem and get more of it. The Canadian government is engaging in the kind of thinking that propelled abortion from being a crime committed a few hundred times a year to a legal butchery committed hundreds of thousands of times per year. Legalizing abortion led to astronomical loss of human life, not less.

I doubt we can solve the drug abuse problem, but making drug abuse legal and providing purer, more potent drugs to addicts is certainly NOT the solution.


14 posted on 09/14/2016 1:41:57 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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If they want to shoot up, let them OD. One less loser.


15 posted on 09/14/2016 1:49:41 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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IMHO drug addiction should be treated as a medical, not legal issue. Putting addicts into the criminal justice system is great for those who make their living in the system, terrible for addicts, their families and taxpayers who foot the bill.


16 posted on 09/14/2016 2:12:11 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: buckalfa

I’m beginning to think we’re gonna need a wall on the north side too.


20 posted on 09/14/2016 7:26:22 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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Opioids or heroin?

Doesn’t matter-—just as long as it keeps them away from cigarettes./s

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21 posted on 09/14/2016 7:31:44 PM PDT by Mears
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The heroin addicts in the US will need a supply and they can get it from Canada. That way Canada gets money from exports and the US can put more heroin addicts in jail for cheap dollar an hour labor (US with 5% of world’s population/ 25% of world’s prisoners).
Next, up the war on physicians that prescribe opiates for chronic pain and encourage Canada to up their production of oxycodone so that we can generate a vigorous pill smuggling operation into the US. Then the government can step in with solutions for more prosecutions and imprisonment.

The idea is to create chaos with the need for more totalitarian government.


22 posted on 09/15/2016 5:18:18 AM PDT by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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