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‘Full-Blown Heroin Crisis’: Vermont Governor Says Drug Surge Deadlier Than Cars or Guns
Pajamas Media ^ | 01/10/2014 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 01/10/2014 8:28:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/10/2014 8:28:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmm. Cars or guns? In that particular order?


2 posted on 01/10/2014 8:30:19 AM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The governor is smoking crack.


3 posted on 01/10/2014 8:32:21 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rktman

Free ObamaHeroin available now


4 posted on 01/10/2014 8:32:43 AM PST by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good Grief, now we have a full blown Drug Vortex.


5 posted on 01/10/2014 8:33:55 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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“So I say the risk for Vermont, frankly, the risk for the other states around the country is, we have got more people dying from opiate addiction and from drug addiction than is killing us in automobiles, killing us with guns, killing us with all of the other things that we keep talking about,” Shumlin continued.

Good. I'd rather have the stupid a$$es that do heroin die, than having government spend taxpayer dollars for repeated unsuccessful treatments (not to mention the damage done to society directly from theft by the addicts, neighborhood degredation, etc.)

6 posted on 01/10/2014 8:35:17 AM PST by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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7 posted on 01/10/2014 8:37:14 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did he go after the real drug pushers? The doctors and the pharma sales reps?

When Vermont starts puting doctors in jail for giving addictive drugs to unsuspecting people, I’ll pat them on the back.


8 posted on 01/10/2014 8:37:15 AM PST by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: blueunicorn6
"The governor is smoking crack."

Why do you say that?

9 posted on 01/10/2014 8:37:41 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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It’s not a legal problem, but he wants to bust them so he can have like a rap session with them? Prescription drugs make people use heroin? High blood pressure junkies. He’s a little upset that New York drug dealers are undercutting the profit margin for Vermont drug dealers? Wow.


10 posted on 01/10/2014 8:38:57 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s all a LIE, and must be made up entirely just to scare us. Afghanistan Produces 95% of the WORLD’S OPIUM, Our US Military CONTROLS the Afghanistan Border. It cannot be happening, How could there be such a DRAMATIC INCREASE in Heroin Usage Since we took over in Afghanistan, in Every City USA, if The Government is Officially In Charge of the very borders the product Originates from????

Ever wonder why the US/Mexico Border will never be SEALED???


11 posted on 01/10/2014 8:40:24 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Go Gordon
"Good. I'd rather have the stupid a$$es that do heroin die, than having government spend taxpayer dollars for repeated unsuccessful treatments ....."

The way I read it, The governor is saying the focus shouldn't be on guns or cars as killers but on drugs.

Personally, I don't care if the rich are doing heroin. This doesn't affect me. It's the "poor" who use that affects me. They are on welfare. My tax money supports them. They use my money to feed their addiction.

Meanwhile, in Delaware County, the police is trying to get the pushers. Problem is, it takes six months to get the paperwork in order. Just last week they finally got one top supplier.

12 posted on 01/10/2014 8:48:15 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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•“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.” – G. K. Chesterton, Broadcast talk 6-11-35


13 posted on 01/10/2014 8:49:53 AM PST by cuban leaf
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Guess you’re not a Limbaugh fan then.


14 posted on 01/10/2014 8:52:17 AM PST by Boogieman
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“Prescription drugs make people use heroin?”

Yes, indeed. Most prescription painkillers are opiates and once you are addicted to opiates, you are addicted to ALL opiates, including heroin. Junkies don’t discriminate when they need a fix.


15 posted on 01/10/2014 8:54:05 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: cuban leaf

Immoral people get the government they deserve.


16 posted on 01/10/2014 8:55:36 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeekAndFind

Brief translation: “Solve the drug problem by legalizing heroin and all the rest of them. Then softly persuade those druggies not to use drugs.


17 posted on 01/10/2014 8:56:20 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SeekAndFind

It sounds like another incompetent liberal who along with other liberal failures is incapable of enforcing the law and arresting drug dealers. Rather than admit his own failure he announces that there is a huge “problem” that needs massive new government programs and substantial increases in taxpayer dollars. And guess who’s power will be enhanced by all these new government jobs and government funding? The governor and his administration.

This tactic has been repeated many times by liberals.


18 posted on 01/10/2014 8:57:59 AM PST by detective
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There is too much money involved with THE ESCAPE INDUSTRY that is recreational drugs in this country. Even the legal stuff. I was talking to my sister and she had been watching a news story about the legalized pot in Colorado. She said that the people in line to go into the pot store, “Looked like the stoners from high school only older.” They do. The only way, the ONLY way, to reduce recreational drug use in this country is to toughen up the recreational drug users. If you need to use recreational drugs to escape from reality, then you are screwed up. You have done nothing but make your reality worse. You escaped it for awhile, but it cost you money you could have used to actually improve your reality. I don’t hate recreational drug users. They are pathetic cowards. I do hate the dealers. They prey on these pathetic cowards. That’s chickenshit. Find a way to make money that doesn’t hurt the country. Because recreational drug use hurts our country. It produces a steady stream of frightened, pathetic people. Do people like that vote conservative? Nope. They vote for government to take care of them, and that’s the Democrat party. I’m amazed at the number of people who say “this country started going to hell in the 60s!” but don’t see how recreational drug use is involved with that. Recreational drug use took off in the 60s. And if you are a “Libertarian” and you just don’t care, then shut your yap about Obama and the Democrats and suffer the effects of THE ESCAPE INDUSTRY.


19 posted on 01/10/2014 9:08:04 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Boogieman

Exactly. And in most areas, heroin is cheaper than bootleg painkillers.


20 posted on 01/10/2014 9:18:41 AM PST by OldRanchHand
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