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Posted on 03/08/2014 2:46:05 PM PST by mgist
Stephanie Predel is off heroin. But the Bennington, Vt., area, where she lives, is in the throes of an epidemic. BENNINGTON, Vt. — Stephanie Predel, a stick-thin 23-year-old freshly out of jail, said she was off heroin. But she knows precisely where she could get more drugs if she ever wanted them — at the support meetings for addicts. “I can get most of my drugs right at the meeting,” she said. “Drug dealers go because they know they’re going to get business.” She added, “People are going into the bathroom to get high.” Bennington, a pre-Revolutionary town of 17,000 people, presents another face of the heroin epidemic that has swept through Vermont. In January, Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State address to what he said was a “full-blown heroin crisis” gripping the state. In an interview later, he said that the state’s localities had managed only a patchwork response. Citing Rutland’s antidrug crusade as a hopeful sign, he said that not all areas had felt the same urgency. “Bennington is where Rutland was four years ago,” he said.
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But drugs are okay...do what you want...
Name your new album “Pure Heroine” as a play on the drug...
I hate to see kids get involved
Bennington isn't one of them. One of my Revolutionary War ancestors holds a place of honor on the grounds of the Bennington Battle Monument. It figures something would come along to tarnish the memories of those heroes.
It’s the high school kids and college age kids where the problem is most widespread. And heroin is absolutely destroying their lives.
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Our local dope cops aren’t doing dick about the problem. They’d rather kick down the doors of some recent college grads to find a little weed in their apartment. They haven’t done a heroin dealer bust in two years. They’re pretty much worthless...
The recent college grads with a little weed in their apartments aren’t paying off the cops.
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Because the D of C wants tons of heroin on American streets, just like they wanted crack cocaine on the streets in the 80’s.
Satanically evil to the core
Anti-business state. You reap what you sow.
The military loads planes and brings it here on orders from above. Its not just gangbangers smuggling it.
Mexicans invasion of the USA , Afghan production exploding after we forbade our forces from damaging poppy fields, heroin chic looking models, and pop culture pushed on our kids.
Next question.
Not to mention allowing tens of millions to get hooked on prescribed chemical heroin and now cracking down
How can this be done? I’m sorry but this sounds very unbelievable.
When there’s money to be made, and lots of it, things get done. Supply and demand, demand will get supply.
It isn’t our troops. Certainly not in any meaningful way. Just not as possible as today’s hit movies make that seem.
But our military is responsible for it in a different way.
Our wise leaders have decreed that nobody may interfere with poppy flower production. Afghan heroin cultivation has exploded since we have been there.
The government even admits that.
It isn’t our soldiers.
China White & Hong Kong Rock have almost always been available on the West Coast. When I was in the Navy,(mid-seventies to mid-eighties), we had a meeting prior to pulling into Hong Kong. The ships Master-At-Arms presented to us Swabbies a dram vial half full of a light pinkish substance which he claimed to be Hong Kong Rock and the purity of it was such that it could kill on the spot. He said the amount in the vial cost $50, but it was worth $2,000 on the street back home.
In the mid-nineties an acquaintance of mine went missing on a walkabout/escape from his old lady in Oregon. This character, who I knew as Lee, (his real name was James Ramaley, but most people knew him by a different alias), was a designer dope cook, who actually was a chemist (his knowledge was my interest as I needed some tutoring in my college chemistry studies). For some reason, his by now former girl friend was positive that I knew where he was. A few years later, I discovered what had become of him...he was found dead in a street pay toilet in San Francisco...
http://www.mistersf.com/notorious/index.html?nottoilet.htm
Pretty much the same thing. Hell, I can't think of a difference besides one being legal and the other not.
Alcohol is one powerful, dangerous and addictive drug. Few escape it.
Actually there was a shortage of morphine about a year ago. We had a real tough time keeping it in stock at hospitals.
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