Posted on 12/07/2013 2:33:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
I take that same SEATAC-ATL flight multiple times a year.
I’ll say a prayer next time I’m aboard.
Wrong or right he’s just as dead
He may not have been that drugged up. He may have swallows a balloon full of heroin to smuggle it to Atlanta. If the balloon broke in his stomach (or elsewhere), death would have been pretty fast.
Character, integrity, grit, drive and perseverance do come from parents. But they can get those same things in the scouts, church groups, day camps, school--as well as in sports teams.
One of the worst experience for kids is to be too small, too tall or not good enough for said teams. Then, they end up hating sports all their lives. Sometimes parents have to force their children to get off the couch.
I've seen SO many working parents (dump off) leave off their children for the babysitter, scouts, day camps, schools, whatever. Their cars line up and stack up in front of the schools dumping off their little treasures and THEY drive off to their own jobs. Perhaps it might be better if the parents spent more time with their children rather than putting them into all kinds of sports camps.
Sport camps are VERY American. Sports are SO important here as they have a lock on the major campuses, television and our world class athletes. We are the ONLY country on planet earth who give university SCHOLARSHIPS to students for being able to bounce and/or hit a ball, not for intellectual achievement, but for being able to hit a ball.
However, I DO get your point. For those parents who are 100% into their children's sports, there is no babysitting involved. The screaming, angry, frustrated parents at kids' games is almost a cliche.
Teenager
Suddenly Dead
Heroin'd be my guess.
I was off to the University of California in 1964. There was ALL kinds of stuff. I got more "education" watching all the political happenings than I did in classes. Lots of drugs there. The mantra of the '60 was: drugs, sex and rock and roll. You remember that too.
I came home on the weekends as my father was ill. He didn't live quite long enough to see me graduate. HE was far, far more important than whatever was going on at the campus.
The answer to your question is yes. People with aneurysm’s are advised against flying for example.
Almost all of our narcotics come from south of the border. Controlling the drugs is far more complicated than pricing them as high as possible. ENFORCING the drug laws is the missing link. EASY to make a ton of laws; not so easy to enforce them. There is WAY too much money and far too many governments involved in the entire industry.
There simply IS no easy, pat answer. Never has been; never will be. People will continue to use drugs, legal or not, because they haven't the wherewithal to face life without a crutch. Not much has changed since Adam and Eve.
There is an easy answer. Over the counter sales of any drug should be legal at every drug store in the country. If you want a pharmacy license there is a list of drugs you must stock. If the customer can spell it, he can buy it.
This would take a huge bite out of crime at every level. Starve the cartels into submission. I don't think more people would take up drugs. No enormous profits, no easy living for dealers, no one to push drugs on young kids. Sure, they will do it on their own, but fewer than with the system we have now.
Crimes to get money for drugs would fall with the price of drugs. No more million dollar payoffs which easily corrupt border patrol and customs officials.
All in all, many fewer lives ruined by drugs...
Most would totally disagree.
Kids especially cannot be allowed to buy any drug at any time as you suggest
” The mantra of the ‘60 was: drugs, sex and rock and roll. You remember that too. “
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No, I remember only whiskey, sex, and rock and roll, and the sex was more talk then real. This was in the south. I am sure California was different.
The fact that I never had an interest in drugs may be clouding my memory. I have smoked only one joint in my life, and that would have been in the 70s.
I DON'T believe it.
Lol. You ought to be on television. The cartels ... starve them into submission. The cartels...a few US laws and the world's drug cartels will be subdued. I think your curls have gone to your brain, CD.
You have no idea of the powah of the dark side....oooops, I'm sliding into Star Wars and Darth Vader.
Honestly, I have SEEN (only seen) the Mafia in Las Vegas. I even saw one of their hit men hiding out in Saudi Arabia. Scary guy. My husband said he had "dead eyes."
I seriously doubt if the world's leaders of the drug cartels are going to pay ANY ATTENTION to a few drug laws that are made in SOME states by SOME legislators. The Feds won't made that law for all the states...they can't.
There is simply WAY too much money in illegal drugs for the US to handle...especially ESPECIALLY since Americans are the BIGGEST MARKET FOR DRUGS ON THE PLANET.
“NO drugs? None at all?! In the South? In the 70’s?”
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No one ask you to believe anything. I only report how life was in my circles. I knew a few that had access to weed, but I did not know anyone, or hear of anyone that did anything harder. Oh, but I did take a few Dexamils at university, only to stay awake and study for exams. No one took drugs for a buzz.
Sad. RIP.
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