tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post8498474404411135088..comments2024-03-28T00:18:09.974-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : How's That "War on Drugs" Working Out for You?Comrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-81775533956296358682016-09-12T21:05:41.196-04:002016-09-12T21:05:41.196-04:0050 years ago you had to learn how to get high with...50 years ago you had to learn how to get high with marijuana , or so I was told .<br />Now it's a viable pharmaceutical .Glenn Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00775503147302432265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-76295948722187940892016-09-09T20:20:33.111-04:002016-09-09T20:20:33.111-04:00Agreed....
But you gotta cut off the freebies to ...Agreed....<br /><br />But you gotta cut off the freebies to the addicts. <br /><br />I think the problem would solve itself in a few years . B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-61353127927057449392016-09-09T00:12:41.051-04:002016-09-09T00:12:41.051-04:00I ran a statewide drug abuse prevention program in...I ran a statewide drug abuse prevention program in the dark ages. Talking to police, they were using the "war" to search "hippie" girls. Legalized heroin is available in places you cannot imagine. Users work and have productive lives. We have great solutions for a problem that need not exist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-10820467441915485662016-09-08T14:56:28.293-04:002016-09-08T14:56:28.293-04:00a nice rant that really covers the waterfront... w...a nice rant that really covers the waterfront... while we're at it, give all the narco cops free life-time pensions and a house in Floridahanshttp://hanshowe.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-50717580877178181072016-09-08T02:56:06.371-04:002016-09-08T02:56:06.371-04:00Don't forget the damage the prohibition laws h... Don't forget the damage the prohibition laws have done to the relationship between the cops and the communities they serve. When most people living in a neighborhood have either been busted for drugs or know someone incarcerated for them, they're not going to like or cooperate with the cops. And the cops know this, and expecting them to always respect people who they know for a fact hate them is unrealistic at best. <br /> I knew a girl who ODed on fentanyl. After she died, I looked into it a little to see what was going on, and apparently the working dose of it is measured in micrograms like LSD. Only LSD won't kill you should you accidentally double the dose. It seems the problem was that heroin dealers aren't usually that adept at chemistry, and mixing the fentanyl in with the buffer has to be done very accurately or it will concentrate in clumps which are then fatal when taken in what seems a normal dose. Awful, awful stuff if you ask me, but criminalizing doesn't work. <br /> I don't know how Portugal is doing these days with its decriminalization, but last I heard the numbers were impressive. I think Hunter S. Thompson got it right when he said we're never going to stop people from getting high, so we might as well just try to deal with it.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oakland dinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.com