Posted on 10/01/2015 8:45:10 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Andy Beshear, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, has been promoting his plan to fight heroin use in Kentucky, including mandatory minimum prison terms for dealers, better access to anti-overdose medication for emergency workers and a "Good Samaritan law" that legally protects drug users who report an overdose to authorities, all of which he says should be done "without further delay."
But Beshear's proposals — featured on his campaign website — already are the law. They were included in last winter's hotly debated Senate Bill 192, signed by his father, Gov. Steve Beshear, in March, and crafted in part by the Republican nominee for attorney general, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Whitney Westerfield of Hopkinsville.
On Monday, Andy Beshear's campaign said he was aware of the heroin law enacted six months ago, and that portion of his campaign platform needed to be updated. A new plan to "combat the spread of heroin and synthetic drugs" will be released next week, Beshear spokeswoman Galia Slayen said.
"While the website is admittedly out of date, what's most important is that Andy has and will continue to talk about this epidemic and how he will use the office of the attorney general to better protect Kentucky families," Slayen said.
For the younger Beshear, 37, a corporate attorney at his father's old law firm, Stites & Harbison, the lapse raises fresh questions about his qualifications to be the state's top law-enforcement officer.
"I don't believe he has ill intent," Westerfield said Monday. "I just don't think he has any real connection to what we're doing in Frankfort about heroin and other problems facing the people of Kentucky.
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Wouldn’t doing away with the overdose medication help eradicate the problem? Just saying. /s
The raw opium, etc. produced in the Middle East by Muslims should be classified as another category of chemical weapon of mass destruction because they’re using it against us in their Islamic jihad as much as they’re profiting from it.
Wouldn’t doing away with the overdose medication help eradicate the problem? Just saying. /s
Sarcasm aside, you have a point: the latter two elements don't "fight heroin use" but rather ameliorate its consequences. And frankly, the first element is only a feel-tough measure - dealers already willingly face a real risk of death in their illegal market, so a mandatory minimum isn't likely to sway them.
No, some of us are using it against ourselves.
they’re profiting from it.
With the profit margins being superinflated by its illegality.
“they’re using it against us”
“No,...”
Okay so, it’s not like they don’t mean well?
No, some of us are using it against ourselves. (undelined portion omitted by equaviator)
Okay so, it’s not like they don’t mean well?
They're pleased by the harm that some of us do to ourselves with it - but so long as users choose it someone will supply it (whether they hate us or simply love money) and without users' choosing it suppliers' intentions would be impotent.
they’re profiting from it.
With the profit margins being superinflated by its illegality.
Right?
I’m saying it’s like a booby trap or a mine. The victim ends up being the mechanism that trips it and that it’s the enemy who designs, builds and places the mine where the victim is likely to be harmed by it.
Very few if any heroin users are unaware that they're using heroin.
The enemy helps to place it where they can find it.
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