donttread
08-17-2019, 09:59 AM
So there is this new "live" First Responders show. It's pretty interesting as these ambulances are more like mini-Emergency Rooms on wheels.
But today they did drug bust. Some of the drug bust they do look like someone with enough money could challenge probable cause. Anyway, the host talked about the brave officers taking drugs off the street. One of the brave officers ( and they were brave) was interviewed and literally said. that illegal drugs lead to crimes in order for addicts to pay for the drugs etc.
What they didn't say follows.
1) The War on Drugs has NOT taken drugs off the streets in a meaningful way as they are more available now than they were when the political war on drugs was begun.
2) While these officers are brave they are put needlessly in harms way for a battle we have been losing for 50 years and one we have no chance to win.
3) The drug related crimes the guy spoke about are usually related to two factors , first that addicts need money to purchase drugs ( a heroin addict for example doesn't commit much crime while high like alcohol users tend to do) and turf wars over sales territory. For example MJ, a drug which does not cause OD's is the catalyst for many killings. ALL of which is not pharmohology based but based primarily on the drugs illegality , inflated price and profit opportunity.
So to sum it up, brave men and women risking their lives in a no win situation where illegality causes more problems that it solves while costing us billions and stamping DO NOT HIRE on the hands of many of our youth. Meanwhile a former big tobacco marketing guy is almost certainly on a school board somewhere along with a Miller beer executive.
But today they did drug bust. Some of the drug bust they do look like someone with enough money could challenge probable cause. Anyway, the host talked about the brave officers taking drugs off the street. One of the brave officers ( and they were brave) was interviewed and literally said. that illegal drugs lead to crimes in order for addicts to pay for the drugs etc.
What they didn't say follows.
1) The War on Drugs has NOT taken drugs off the streets in a meaningful way as they are more available now than they were when the political war on drugs was begun.
2) While these officers are brave they are put needlessly in harms way for a battle we have been losing for 50 years and one we have no chance to win.
3) The drug related crimes the guy spoke about are usually related to two factors , first that addicts need money to purchase drugs ( a heroin addict for example doesn't commit much crime while high like alcohol users tend to do) and turf wars over sales territory. For example MJ, a drug which does not cause OD's is the catalyst for many killings. ALL of which is not pharmohology based but based primarily on the drugs illegality , inflated price and profit opportunity.
So to sum it up, brave men and women risking their lives in a no win situation where illegality causes more problems that it solves while costing us billions and stamping DO NOT HIRE on the hands of many of our youth. Meanwhile a former big tobacco marketing guy is almost certainly on a school board somewhere along with a Miller beer executive.