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So I am curious. Druggies are usually the ones thieving,forging,shoplifting,squatting ect.

What reason other than fire, ambulance car accidents have first responders, murder of a spouse/family member, domestic violence, would you call 911 for.

We have our share of crime from people passing through, but domestic violence is number one. I have a neighbor whose husband hits her everytime he gets drunk. She runs down to our house screaming for help. He shows up soon after and is a real handful. I'm too old for this crap. I need a deputy to lock this guy up so I can get some sleap on Saturday night!

We had a wave of crank cooks and they were a problem. They just had a lot of bad luck, and left. We've become wary of newcomers and that isn't a good thing, but it works.

First responders here are volunteers. Not as bad as it sounds. The community supports the volunteers and contributes enough money so they get trained. All have firefighter 1 certificates and four are para medics.

We have never had a murder of a spouse/family member, but we do have domestic violence. Alcohol is the culprit here when it comes to domestic violence. The only murder we had was when one crank cook killed another. That's when the community decided they had to go.

Our druggies consist mainly of old pot smoking hippies, and they aren't a problem. We do also have several who grow their own medical marijuana and they aren't a problem either. If anyone here is using hard drugs they keep it to themselves as we have no problem from hard drug users.

We do have our share of problems from drunk teens, mainly drunk driving and fighting. Pot use among the teens here is not uncommon, but I think that's true everywhere. Hullicinogenic mushrooms grow wild here, but the kids here just don't care for them. The people you see gathering them are from the city. We don't care about the shroom pickers, they give us a good laugh...The shrooms grow on cow turds.

We have over two hundred K thru 8 kids in our school, but we have no gun violence or accidental shootings even though they all live in homes with guns.

We used to have forest service work centers. They maintained roads and trails to campgrounds and other recreational areas. They also provided summer jobs for teens. The money for work centers and camp grounds now goes to the WOD. All but one campground has closed and the one that is open is serviced rarely. It has become a hangout for homeless winos during the summer so we don't derive any benefit from having it open.

The War On Drugs has done nothing to make our community a better place.
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