Posted on 05/17/2011 1:19:06 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City woman has been charged with a third degree felony for allegedly asking an undercover police officer to give her drugs in exchange for an Olive Garden salad in a to-go box.
The 33-year-old woman approached the undercover officer who was working on the corner of 200 South and 300 West in Salt Lake, according to charging documents. The woman was carrying a white food container and asked the undercover officer for $10 worth of cocaine, according to the charges. She "stated that she wanted some cocaine, but she only had $2 and a salad," the charges state.
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Exactly. And in those days pure cocaine, heroin and opium was sold with less restrictions than today’s cough medicine.
Runaway addiction and drug abuse are just symptoms of a sick society, they do not cause it. Even if all drugs were somehow controlled(impossible even in a police state), these sick people would abuse things like paint, turpentine, etc. As my grandfather witnessed in a Soviet gulag, people will even use shoe/belt leather and cook it to get high.
Since you admittedly, and willingly admit to abusing it yourself, I would think you would know just what I meant.
Drugs are just as insidious as sin, it all leads to destruction of ones life.
And yes, I did my share in the days....
I heard that call. I think her point was that kids don’t eat tomatoes unless they are on hamburgers, pizzas or in spaghetti sauce. Even the teachers weren’t eating plain tomatoes, so her relative had plenty to take home for sauce-making. IIRC, the few times I ate school lunches, the tomatoes were unripe and nearly tasteless.
Personally, I like raw tomatoes with a little salt.
It’s virtually impossible to get good quality fresh tomatoes except from a local garden or farm stand. Everything else has been picked green so that it will stand up to the trip without bruises, and even though “ripened” by ethylene gas at its destination is still usually marginal and flavorless. Kids, whose sense of taste is more acute than that of adults, can especially sense the “greenness” of these commercial raw tomatoes. A canned product doesn’t need to worry about the tomatoes getting bruised before reaching the canning plant; they’ll cook up just fine anyhow.
“That’s a 0.5% rate in 1900 vs a 1.4% rate in 2000. An addiction rate 1.4% is greater than 0.5%, yes? “
Yes, if you trust the numbers.
I am not sure the canvassing methods of the 1900 were as thorough as the ones today.
Hard to prove either way, in my opinion.
I support laws whether they are deterrents or not.
For example, whether the death penalty is a deterrent or not, it is just, so I support it for murder, forcible rape, and kidnap.
It is impossible to say what “might have been.”
Had opium and heroin been illegal in 1900, maybe there would have been a .001 percent addiction rate. Who knows?
I extend a cyber-handshake! Aren't you GLAD we "did our share" and are here to write about it? My stars. I remember running into an old partner-in-wild-living many years after we'd each "grown up" and take better paths. We reminisced about the old days and folks we knew, some of whom were still even bigger losers than they were back then, some in jail, some dead ... on parting, my friend gave me a hug and, his eyes twinkling, said, "We survived!"
I had never really thought of it that way until he said that, and once again I found myself thanking God for all His putting up with my nonsense and helping me through.
Oh, maa-aa-aaaan, me too! I love tomotoes, especially sliced. With salt and nothing else. Or with salt and green onions and some slices of avocado, maybe a dash of balsamic vinegar ... yum ... or salt and a little sprinkling of Fines herbs or herbs Provence sprinkled on top ... I'm a tomato-lovin' fool.
Amen FRiend
Aren't you GLAD we "did our share" and are here to write about it?
Yes I am, we need to also extend the courtesy to those who have not yet seen the light and hope that they do.
I grew up in a time when certain things that are verboten here, but were part of my life.
I lived through them, am ashamed of them but am trying to go on with lessons well learned.
Guess that's what is called wisom.
MMMMMMM. Oregano and some Feta chesse goes well too!
Amen on that one, Brother FReeper. My heart weeps for such, especially for meth heads. Yikes ... that has to be the most cruel, evil drug ever. I've never done it (that I know of!!! *sigh*) but have sure known, and know even now, some people, some of the old friends I grew up with, who are killing themselves and causing untold pain to their loved ones, by using it. Such lost and sad folks, some of them actually gentle and loving in their true nature ... I mean it truly when I say that if Jesus Christ walked the earth today, I believe He could be found at the neighborhood meth hang-out. Saving souls.
Oh ... you just HAD to mention Feta, didn’t you!!! Mmmmmmmm ..... if I kept Feta in the house on a regular basis, I’d weigh 350 pounds.
The arresting officer was quoted as saying: “Lettuce toss you in the can!”
Has her attorney sprouted her yet?
These are the people charged with fighting the WOD. It's like having the prosecution's star witness give testimony against the prosecution's case. Why would the methods be less accurate? They kept records of opium imports & sales at the wholesale and retail level. Progressives had not yet gotten their hooks into this, so there was no reason to lie.
I support laws whether they are deterrents or not. For example, whether the death penalty is a deterrent or not, it is just, so I support it for murder, forcible rape, and kidnap.
So do you support the Wickard Commerce Clause? Or have you chosen to know nothing about Wickard so you don't have to own up to your contempt for the original Constitution?
“They kept records of opium imports & sales at the wholesale and retail level. Progressives had not yet gotten their hooks into this, so there was no reason to lie. “
Good point; I hadn’t thought of that.
As for your snarkiness about Wickard, I don’t appreciate it, I have not pretended to be an expert and I never so much as insinuated I knew about it. I am not going to go read a court opinion for you, and I am under no obligation to do so.
And I am not pretending anything.
You don't have to be an expert to know the gist of Wickard. It was the landmark Commerce Clause case during FDR's time that has allowed Congress to legislate over health care, education, the environment, etc.
I am not going to go read a court opinion for you, and I am under no obligation to do so.
You don't have to read the opinion to get the gist of it. I never read Roe v Wade, but I know the gist of it. I know enough about it to know it's not in keeping with original understanding.
And I am not pretending anything.
I said that you choose to remain uninformed, not that you pretended. Regardless, the fact that you advocate a fedgov policy without bothering to inform yourself of very basic facts shows contempt for the original Constitution.
“Regardless, the fact that you advocate a fedgov policy without bothering to inform yourself of very basic facts shows contempt for the original Constitution. “
I can advocate a policy without studying every court case that concerns it. I don’t have to dance to your tune. That is hardly contempt.
You should have enough respect for the Constitution to know the gist of the landmark case affecting the policy you advocate. Yet you claim total ignorance and refuse to inform yourself of the basics. That's a choice on your part.
I don't have to dance to your tune. That is hardly contempt.
Choosing to be uninformed about the constitutional basis for a policy you advocate IS contempt for the Constitution. And you have displayed it.
“Choosing to be uninformed about the constitutional basis for a policy you advocate IS contempt for the Constitution. And you have displayed it. “
Well, poopy poopy poop. You are a piece of work! Well, to the law books. Apparently I must study all case laws on all subjects to have an opinion on anything. . .
your standard for “contempt” is really really low. Sorry, can’t cite the case law on that one either.
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