Pharmacy Robberies-- It's Called, "Cause and Effect", You DEA Douchebags

Here is how it used to work: If an addict needed to score some Oxycontin, either he'd get a prescription for the stuff from a doctor who was willing to write it or, if he couldn't hook up with a local doctor willing to play "candyman", he'd find someone who had. Or he'd smurf around to several doctors and try to accumulate prescriptions. The addict got his fix and few people got hurt in the process.

But that didn't sit well with the DEA, which has this insane view that making drugs harder to get will convince addicts to give up drugs. So the DEA has been pressuring states to crack down on the candymen.

And now, surprise, surprise, surprise, the addicts have taken to getting their drugs from pharmacies by using guns instead of prescriptions.

Since this was likely foreseeable by anyone with a functioning cortex, one has to wonder whether the DEA is satisfied with the outcome. They probably view the dead pharmacists and customers as "acceptable collateral damage."