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It is simply not a solution to do nothing. It is literally ripping the heart out of the Midwest and here we sit debating the relation to prohibition?

I'm not buying it. My FIRST HAND experience tells me the statistics are not telling the story...this is not a west coast or East coast issue...it's the fly over country that's taking the hit this time...What do you think the stats would say if we just did the same analysis on Midwestern States?

I'm telling you, Meth has completely taken over the farm belt. If your from this part of the country show me how I'm wrong...

It is simply not a solution to do nothing.

I agree with you on this. I don't disagree on the nature of the solution. I don't think there is one.

I'm not buying it. My FIRST HAND experience tells me the statistics are not telling the story...this is not a west coast or East coast issue...it's the fly over country that's taking the hit this time...What do you think the stats would say if we just did the same analysis on Midwestern States?

I'm telling you, Meth has completely taken over the farm belt. If your from this part of the country show me how I'm wrong...

As a small town downstate Illinoisan, my first hand experience is nonexistent. I have never met a meth user. If I have ever seen one I didn't really notice him. The only real meth related problems around here are the exploding drug labs. The way to get rid of those is to legalize the stuff.

I'm telling you, Meth has completely taken over the farm belt. If your from this part of the country show me how I'm wrong...

I live in a rural area. It's virtually unknown here with only a few busts in a small circle of a hundred or so people who have been drug users for decades. Their social circle is pretty well-known by police. There was one interesting case though. A local bigwig's son (past 30) was busted with large quantity of meth along with a registered nurse from the local hospital on a local highway. They just released them. It was kind of odd but we assumed Daddy's influence saved the kid and the nurse benefitted indirectly. But then, we had several local judges who were busted for buying those Christmas Tree prescription speed pills back in the late Seventies in Colorado, I mean they bought bushels of them. They were released too and never prosecuted. Their pictures and the story were in at least one Denver paper. One of them is still a judge unless he's recently retired.

Now that I think about it, maybe I'm being naive and everyone is having more fun than I thought. It would explain some of the local voting pattern at that. Certainly, prosecution isn't reliable. Yet, there just doesn't seem to be much activity by real tweakers. Just the same bunch of (now aging) hippies who were always the drug bunch in our area.