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A couple of years ago, a young local girl died of a heroin overdose in her apartment in Madison, where she was attending the university. Her roommate was convicted, IIRC, of giving her the actual shot. Another young man, whom I knew from the time he was an infant, got 6 months (out at the end of the summer) and 5 years very regulated probation (fails one drug test, isn't working or in school making passing grades and he goes to prison for 5 years)for being part of the trio that made the buy from another 20-something who was the connection.

I live in rural Wisconsin. Over the past several years, we have had very visible gangsta types from the Cities living here. All the HS kids say these guys are the drug sources. I keep trying to discover why the city and county LEO haven't busted them and the answers are vague. One LEO said they knew who was doing what, but they had to be able to catch them at it.

Besides having to register to buy pseudofed, all the local vets have been visited by the local drug force people and warned about inquiries for some equine medicine that can be used the same way, for meth production. The vets we know don't keep this drug around, but special order it as needed, so inquiries and attempts to purchase seem something out of the ordinary.

I know many good families whose kids had their episodes with various sorts of drugs. Most got caught at home and were appropriately disciplined by the parents, but there are reports all the time of those being arrested or sent to seriously expensive rehab.

It is a problem for our kids and it is also the fuel that funds a lot of major crime and major terror. Maybe the shootings in inner cities are all gangbangers, but innocents get caught in the crossfire.

A lot of people dismiss the WOD with "It is only pot". Several years ago, we received first hand information from a local person involved with a large nationwide industry (I am definitely not going into any more detail here) who was bragging about his personal visit with an internationally known family in Central America which has run port operations in a very infamous city down there for generations. Unknown to the braggart, we had known people 35 years ago who were also deeply involved with an older generation of this very family. They control coffee, cocaine and anything else that enters and exits this particular port, most likely also including military arms. Very dangerous people whose only side, politically, is the one that profits them the most and absolutely no regard for human life. Several of the people we knew back then did serious time for major felonies. One lived underground for over 30 years, on the run with three major felonies hanging over him. Not sure how he finally got back into mainstream society, but we heard recently that he is living openly and collecting SS.

We dropped these folks like hot rocks once we found out just what was going down. Suffice to say, you would not have thought those involved were the type. It isn't like TV. It is the family down the street, The blue-collar lunch box guy who lives just too well, the kids sitting next to yours in class, the entrepreneur who seems so successful in his business, the middle-aged professional whose trips to Mexico end up in Cartegena and Cuba.

I came of age in the sixties and remember a good deal of it, but not all. It has evolved. It is international. It supplies money to people who hate America. It corrupts everyone involved with it. I have decided it is a major threat to democracy and our way of life. Remember that George Soros is the money behind the legalization efforts around the world.

Believe it or not, but belief is irrelevant to reality.