2. Nothing has served as a better excuse to rip the Bill of Rights into fine shreds than the drug war.
First Amendment? Censorship of "drug technology."
Second Amendment? The ancillary War On Guns, brought by the War On (some) Drugs.
Third Amendment? Well, come to think of it, why should they quarter soldiers in someone's house, when they can just seize the whole thing?
Fourth Amendment? Terry searches, roadblocks, piss tests, drug sniffing dogs, cash transactions monitored at banks. (Most without probable cause.)
Fifth Amendment? Civil asset forfeiture, with proceeds profiting the drug warriors.
Sixth Amendment? "Speedy trials" in jammed courts, anonymous police informants that won't show their faces in court.
Eighth Amendment? Non-violent pot smokers getting raped in prison and getting AIDS as a result, 99 year sentences for first time offenders convicted of "conspiracy to distribute cocaine," meaning, no physical evidence that a crime was committed, just one person's (often anonymous testimony).
Ninth and Tenth Amendments? Crushed by federalization of police power, and usurpation of State's rights, among other things.
Is you're screenname sarcastic, by any chance?
1. "Meth, being inanimate"
DUH!!!
2. "Nothing has served as a better excuse to rip the Bill of Rights into fine shreds than the drug war. "
I said nothing about the war on drugs...I was speaking about meth, Ice.
Meth is epidemic in my area. It can be bought in any neighborhood, on any street corner. I'll protect my kids before I protect anything else. I know what meth does to users and their families.
I've been on the receiving end of the psychotic actions of a tweaker. I have had the bruises from the pyschotic actions of a tweaker. I have looked in the eyes of a tweaker and felt hatred, pure hatred towards a tweaker--a harsh thing for a mother to say about her son.
I have seen the residual effects of meth when a user is trying to get his life back together. I see the effects it has on his thought process. I have been relieved when my son was in jail-I knew where he was and I could sleep at night--finally.
I have been at the ends of threats from the cookers and the dealers because I call the cops. I don't care. They are scum of the earth. They would sell it to my 14 year old as quickly as they would my 24 year old who was 14 when he first got involved with "just a little pot."
Bad parenting? Don't even go there.
Meth is evil and anyone who would argue otherwise is peddling nothing but bullshit. Anyone who writes an article understating the effects of meth belongs in the same category as the dealers and cookers.
Don't like it? Tough.
I am not a fan of the war on drugs. I reasent like hell having to prove I am not a cooker just to buy some Claratin-D. There are other, better ways to fight drug use.
I'll say it again--anyone who tries to say meth is not as bad as it's publicity has an agenda and it is not the welfare of my kids. Make it legal? Yeah right. That will make a tweaker say "Please?"
As for my screenname--The health and welfare of my kids come before someone's right to know how to cook meth. Hypocritical? Maybe, but it goes with the job.