Posted on 07/03/2018 1:33:46 PM PDT by topher
No that won’t do it either
Have you all lost your history lesson from the Volsted Act
Meth is not an opioid. It’s a synthetic amphetamine.
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It is synthetic and it is being produced through out the nation just like meth. It is why most LEOs carry narcan these days
Iran, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines all execute drug dealers and all still have rampant drug use.
Anyhow, it doesn't seem logically consistent to execute the lowly street dealers while letting the CEOs of Big Pharma off the hook.
The worst drugs are meth, coke, heroin and fentanyl. They come from Mexico.
Save American lives. Build the wall dammit.
A sizable fraction of opiate addicts became addicted due to improperly prescribed opioid pain killers. I think that prescription guidelines are being revised to address this issue.
A physician that I know said that for long-term pain management, opioids are *not* indicated. So, there is part of the problem, since opioids are frequently prescribed for long-term pain issues.
“You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers.”
I’m ok with your proposal about drug dealers and traffickers because, well, the just need killing. However, logic is backwards; it’s the demand side that’s the problem. Eliminate demand and supply will follow. Problem is, nobody, and I mean nobody, has the guts to deal with the demand side of the equation.....
Now Mexico has a President hand picked by the cartels...so that should tell us something about what to expect. Time for the WALL.
Yes most of the opioids come right across this border. Mexico does as much to stop the drugs as they do to stop illegals.
There was some confiscation in Detroit? recently that reported amount could have killed millions. It is unadulterated and added to street drugs. It can kill addicts because it is easily added in too great an amount because it is so strong.
Wish could be more precise.
“Most fentanyl coming to the United States is produced in China, U.S. officials say, and commonly transited through Mexico. Chinese authorities “have struggled to adequately regulate thousands of chemical and pharmaceutical facilities operating legally and illegally in the country,” says a 2017 report [PDF] issued by a congressionally mandated commission.”
This border has been so wide open it is a transit for drugs from everywhere to here...
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-opioid-epidemic
A family member who worked for the DEA told about his first assignment. In Miami, watching one group of big time drug people, after a week or so on the job the guy training him asked him how the top guy that they were watching was paying those working for him. My family member said he had not thought of that and really started watching; as it turned out the man was filling the trunk of a car with cash and the guys working for him had keys to the trunk. My relative said that convinced him with that kind of money attached it would never be stopped.
Agree 10,000%
There are many articles that make that claim, there are some that say it is not true...the fact is it takes a VERY small amount ingested to overdose so may be some truth to it and if I had to handle it I would rather be safe than sorry.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750022.html
See my post # 54
The idea that just a touch is lethal is what the Border LE reported.
Stopping the Drug Epidemic
How?
By legalizing POT?
What could go wrong?
Decimalize drugs and the Prices Blumit. When prices nose drives the infrastructure to deliver drugs falls apart. When the Infrastructure falls apart the Quality and Quantity Collapses.
The DEA is nothing but Quality Control for the Drug Cartels. If the DEA didn’t exist, the Drug Cartels would create one. Adults should be able to use the drug they want, be it Alcohol, grass, or Meth.
I am sad that addicts die from the drugs they take, but I am tired of giving up liberty in the name of the War on Drugs.
Legalize All Of It. Let Darwin sort out the addicts.
Yup
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