Posted on 04/05/2005 12:06:43 PM PDT by Travis McGee
I told him he was a hostile SOB.
Damn! I thought it might have been something racey..
That is a long story. Suffice to say that the system worked and this innocent bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time was never charged with anything. No harm, no foul.
But you'll excuse American gangs from doing so?
Just trying to be clear. Are you in favor of the WOD, or just jumping on a story because of your strong feelings against illegal immigration? Honest question.
As a low residue solvent is my guess.
Like the War on Some Drugs isn't a real mess now?
The controlled substance laws make illicit drug manufacturing highly lucrative.
The controlled substance laws also empower goverrnment to grant medical monopolies, which is the exact reason we find ourselves in a medical cost crisis today.
I worked for a company that is the only legal manufacturer of bulk codeine, morphine, fentanyl, etc. during the eighties and nineties. During the mid-eighties to early nineties they multiplied their prices by 4 each year, for no reason other than that they are a monopoly.
Guess who paid that X4?
I plugged a particular term from this article into Google and got a white-paper-style instruction guide for assembly and operation of a superlab. I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.
I can't argue drug laws with you. Assume that I believe that drugs are bad and that the current laws should be enforced. However, painful experience has taught me that I'd rather go to Williamburg Brooklyn and argue bible verse with the Hasidim than drug laws with someone seeking descrimnalization.
Let me say this -- I have seen junkies up close. I've seen crack heads at their worst. I've seen folks in the midst of cocaine psychosis. And I've seen meth addicts. And in my opinion, meth addicts are the worst and most dangerous of the lot.
From a single term? I'm a little surprised.
Everything I have seen would confirm that, but the good news is they don't live very long once their teeth start to disintegrate from the battery acid they use to extract the pseudophedrine.
Anybody who would knowingly ingest anything manufactured with battery acid deserves whatever they get.
It's an addiction. The chemicals re-wire their brains in ways that it's not possible for someone on the outside to understand. During the crack days of the early 90s addicts (both male and female) would trade their children for the drug.
Alcohol is the true gateway drug.
Most substance abusers start off with alcohol, and most substance abusers will abuse alcohol when they cannot obtain their substance of abuse of choice.
Was the repeal of Prohibition a mistake?
It's an honest question.
The underlying question is, is it ultimately possible to protect people from themselves?
I don't think it is. Evidently you do.
An honest disagreement, but the terms should at least be accurately defined.
I understand that, but my statement that they get what they deserve stands.
Making excuses for addicts is enabling behavior.
Oh no you don't -- you're not sucking me into that swamp. I'd rather go on one of the Terri Schiavo or Evolution threads and take an opposing view... :)
My opinions, such as they are, I base on personal experience. I've lost many good friends to drugs and have a lot of friends who were never the same once they got through with re-hab.
A red x? No.
No doubt the FROBLs/SOILs/CALs will find the solution for us.
No, no, no -- I don't make excuses. I try to understand the thing.
This is one of the critical misunderstandings of our age --people confuse trying to understand a thing with making excuses for the thing.
Happens to me all the time.
Like earlier in this thread when Mr. McGee accused my of supporting meth manufacturing merely because I noted that these "superlabs" are hardly high-technology and just about anybody with two brain cells in a row and some glass-blowing expericence could set one up if they were so inclined.
You can understand addiction all you want, but the fact of the matter is that it boils down to human choice, the foundations of which are laid down long before the actual choice is made.
I have no expertise or knowledege of this subject, even though last week I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express..but one thing makes me question the premise of the article. If, as is stated, the Mexican cartels control 90+% of the meth production, it seems to me it would be far easier, cheaper, and safer ( from from law enforcement) to manufacture it in Mexico and smuggle the finished product into the US
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