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2010-08-19 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-19 08:16|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 2 grams of heroin costs about $170 (because Drug Prohibition acts acts a 10000% tax.)

Want burglary to fall 99%?

Decriminalise Chemical choices.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-08-19 14:14|| 2010-08-19 14:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Oxycontin is weird stuff. Especially older people can get bizarre psychological side effects. And addicts are often more aggressive than are heroin junkies. Usually middle or upper class, and otherwise healthy, they are used to getting what they want, and have the money and chutzpah to get it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-19 14:15|| 2010-08-19 14:15|| Front Page Top

#3 So now we're gonna have to legalize heroin? Hey, I mean, if junkies are having to turn to burglary to support their habits, couldn't we reduce the burglary and other crimes by legalizing heroin? /sarc

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-08-19 14:18|| 2010-08-19 14:18|| Front Page Top

#4 BP: I'm actually more in favor of decriminalizing heroin than I am Oxycodone drugs, because heroin is far more predictable in action. Methamphetamine and speed are right out, because they can and do turn some people dangerously psychotic. Cocaine less so, though it is physically destructive.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-19 14:19|| 2010-08-19 14:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Methamphetamine and speed are right out, because they can and do turn some people dangerously psychotic. Cocaine less so, though it is physically destructive.

Heroin isn't physically destructive? So we should just give it away to our high school and junior high school students, right? Because that's what's gonna happen. How about if we secure the damn border instead?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-08-19 14:29|| 2010-08-19 14:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Heroin is a treatment drug, not a criminal drug. Methadone just turns heroin junkies into methadone junkies. Oddly enough, if they can get a pure supply, heroin junkies can live for many years with only modest side effects. Typically they are brought down by bad quality drugs, contaminated needles, and poor living conditions, not the heroin.

While closing the border is admirable, it will not even put a dent in the heroin trade. Especially the inexpensive Mexican brown heroin. For some damn reason, rich kids in Odessa fell in love with it as a snorting, not injecting drug, and it was killing high school VIP kids.

And, credit where credit is due, St. Darwin cannot be denied stupid kids. They will come up with some way to off themselves.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-19 20:59|| 2010-08-19 20:59|| Front Page Top

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