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"The War On Drugs Is Over, And We Lost... We Can't Arrest Our Way Out Of This"
Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,
Situated on the coast of Massachusetts, Gloucester’s claims to fame include its status as “America’s original seaport,” as well as being the real-life location on which events in the movie The Perfect Storm (2000) were based. Now, the small town has a new reason to be the center of attention: its police have been granting complete amnesty to drug users who come to the station seeking help, even if they come bearing the remainder of their stash.
On March 6th of this year, Gloucester Chief of Police Leonard Campanello wrote a Facebook post much like he normally did. But this particular post bemoaned four deaths to heroin and opiates in just two months — for a city with less than 30,000 residents.
Frustrated, and without any forethought, Campanello added what would turn out to be a propitious statement to that post:
“If you are a user of opiates or heroin, let us help you. We know you do not want this addiction. We have resources here in the City that can and will make a difference in your life. Do not become a statistic.”
The response was immediate and overwhelmingly positive. Where one of Campanello’s typical posts would collect, perhaps, a dozen ‘likes’ — this post garnered 1,234 likes and, according to the Washington Post, “more views than there were people in the city.”
Obviously, he’d hit on the crux of a problem with the different approach that was sorely needed.
“The war on drugs is over,” Campanello said. “And we lost. There is no way we can arrest our way out of this. We’ve been trying that for 50 years. We’ve been fighting it for 50 years, and the only thing that has happened is heroin has become cheaper and more people are dying [emphasis added].”
On May 4th, he posted a lengthy update after considering what he’d stumbled onto with that first extemporaneous post.
“Any addict who walks into the police station with the remainder of their equipment (needles, etc.) or drugs and asks for help will NOT be charged. Instead we will walk them through the system toward detox and recovery. We will assign them an “angel” who will be their guide through the process. Not in hours or days, but on the spot. Addison Gilbert and Lahey Clinic have committed to helping fast track people that walk into the police department so that they can be assessed quickly and the proper care can be administered quickly [emphasis added].”
Though it was unclear what the repercussions of such a bold move would be, after over 33,000 likes and 30,000 shares for the updated post, there was no denying Campanello had found a better alternative to penalizing those struggling with addiction. Over 4,000 comments sang the praises of the program — a few even compared the approach to Portugal’s success decriminalizing all drugs. Most echoed sentiments like, “Well done!” and“Finally someone gets it right!” and even “Bravo!! More compassion and humanity in our justice system. You are leading by example. And I think the results will validate your decision [emphasis added].”
And validate they have.
Campanello said this week that over 100 addicts have already taken advantage of the opportunity — and one in six have come from out-of-state, including a person who traveled all the way from California to ask for help. It’s certainly a switch to see so many flock to the very police who, in the past, would have arrested and jailed every one of them.
“It’s extremely important for a police department to treat all people with respect,” said Campanello. “Law enforcement doesn’t exist to judge people.”
And as for cost? An update on the “Gloucester Initiative Angel Program” in an August 10th post stated: “$5000 for 100 lives.”
Going even further, Campanello approached a local CVS pharmacy and explained the program and the need for Nasal Narcan, which can reverse an overdose. Without insurance, the drug cost $140, but after hearing about the revolutionary program, CVS made it available for $20 a pack — so Campanello started providing it to addicts free of charge.
“The police department will pay the cost of the Nasal Narcan for those without insurance. We will pay for it with money seized from drug dealers during investigations. We will save lives with the money from the pockets of those who take them,” he said.
With so many people taking advantage of the program, Chief Campanello and the Gloucester Police Department, as well as their various partners, have formed a non-profit organization called The Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (P.A.A.R.I.) “to bridge the gap between the police department and opioid addicts seeking recovery.” Its website states, “Rather than arrest our way out of the problem of drug addiction, P.A.A.R.I. committed police departments:
- “Encourage opioid drug users to seek recovery.”
- “Help distribute life saving opioid blocking drugs to prevent and treat overdoses.”
- “Connect addicts with treatment programs and facilities.”
- “Provide resources to other police departments and communities that want to do more to fight the opioid addiction epidemic.”
Though it is perhaps premature to estimate the program’s overall success, three Massachusetts cities will soon be implementing programs based on Campanello’s model.
What started as frustration and anger about the nation’s growing problem with heroin and opiate addiction hastily posted to Facebook has become a possible future model for police departments around the country — and tangible hope for addicts and their loved ones.
Four deaths in two months in the small coastal town appeared to indicate the continuance of a frightening trend — but in the over five and a half months since, there have been “Just two,” said Campanello.
In mid-June, Gloucester Police wrote another post on the official Facebook page that speaks volumes of the program. It states:
“A reporter asked one of my officers last night: ‘Do you see a common thread in all addicts?’ Without hesitation, the officer responded: ‘Absolutely. They’re all human beings.”
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Shoot first, arrest later.
Your joke aside, it is very smart and decent of Gloucester to do this. Especially for hard drugs like heroin.
Helping someone (or a lot of someones) to beat addiction is better & cheaper than locking them up.
Addiction can be beaten, but it has to come from within.
I have this great idea. Let's put heroin into an easy to use pill form and encourage doctors to write scripts for everything from a tooth ache on up. What could possibly go wrong?
But we are winning the War on Poverty!
The real problem these hard drug stories are hiding is the pharmacopic addiction levels, off the charts, gateway "drugs" you bet, courtsey of your MD...kill more than heroin and the next worst drug COMBINED...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/the-pharmacopic-scam-lies-ex...
And who wants to try and rehab a feral cat?
You can now carry up to an ounce of Weed in the first state....a drugged up populace is easier to contain
The Afghan was about ….
a. making the world safe again.
b. capture or kill OBL
c. eliminating the evil Taliban
d. protecting the poppy crop so more heroin could be made
its the simplest of equations:
the persecution and prosecution of drugs does more damage to society than the drugs themselves
And it's not even fucking close...
Of the many criticisms you can level at the USSA the Criminal Injustice System might be the worst. Beyond the drug war the harsh sentences handed out for relatively minor crimes (and yes, even a year or two in an American prison is harsh, dehumanizing and damn near guarantees recidivism) have destroyed swaths of American society. For all our racist commentators on ZH, I challenge you to take a white kid, raise him in our intentionally impoverished (through welfare, the drug war, etc) cities, let him do ANY time whatsoever, and have him end up any hotter than a nigger.
i forwarded this article to the state police and sheriff's department in my state. fuck, this is a long time coming....
I've long argued that minorities, since they had/have less ability to defend themselves politically ended up being the social engineering experiments of the so-called elite. Now that they have perfected their technique they are slowly rolling it out on white america from the bottom the ecomic strata on up. The results have been as predictable as you illude to.
As George Carlin said, "It's a club and you ain't in it." That's the real dividing line in this society, not race. The rulers and the ruled.
...courtesy of the Brit tabloids, just when you thought the world was safe from arch-terror mastermind Bin Ladens, get ready..... are you ready ?
Osama Jr. is here to terrorize the world !
as the DailyMail reports, (note the source attributed is SITE, the hasbara team that has been constantly rooting out the evil-doers & dangers to Zion )
Osama Bin Laden’s son releases taped message calling on jihadis to target cities in the West including London-
- 15:51, 14 August 2015
- By Sam Webb
Osama bin Laden’s son – dubbed the Crown Prince of Terror, has released a chilling message calling on supporters to attack the WestThe jihadist son of Osama bin Laden – dubbed the Crown Prince of Terror - has released a chilling message calling on supporters to attack London, Washington, Paris, and Tel-Aviv.
Hamza bin Laden, who supported his father's reign of terror before he died in Pakistan in 2011 at the hands of US special forces troops, urges Al-Qaeda supporters to move the war away from the Middle East.
The video has an introduction by current terror chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, reports terror intelligence group SITE.
Director Rita Katz says Al-Qaeda, which is losing power and influence to ISIS, is attempting to reinvigorate the terror group using the bin Laden name.....
Those rehab facilities charge about $30,000/month and have real attractive `affiliate` programs that put upwards of $5k into the pocket of the referrer.
Jus sayin....
Alcoholics anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous cost nothing in over the long run is the one program that actually works. Once the addict decides to correct his life pretty cheap and easy solution.
Jail almost never corrects the addiction.
I know for a fact that AA is extremely cheap.
And that its program is as effective (or more so) than almost any other.
Not for Atheists or disbelievers. But we're talking about Heroin.
True re this discussion is about heroin. But, I would contend that most addictions share a lot of similarities.
And, no, actually you do NOT have to be any kind of believer for AA to work (I would *guess*, but do not know that NA would be similar).
You just have to really want to quit, and to walk the walk. It comes from within.
NA folks are some of the most pleasant people I know.
The program gets a lot of kudos from me.
I am pretty much an athiest definately an agnostic this is why I like Buddisim and I have 14 years clean and sober that I attribute to my AA experience.
I'm 41 yrs and my illustrious drug using career started when I was 15 with alcohol. I graduated to Cocaine and Crack at the age of 19. I used all of that off and on into my mid 30s. That's when I fell in love with opiates. Started with Methadone pills (2008) and switched to snorting Oxycontin soon after. I got off of the opiates in early 2011. I'm a bridge painter and ended on a 2 year job in New Orleans in August 2011. After about the 2nd week I was buying Heroin and shooting it. I came back home to Illinois in May of 2013. I got of the H after getting home but shortly after I started smoking Ice of which I had never been a fan of. But it helped to make me feel human again. Wasn't long till I was throwing it in the spoon as well. I was on that garbage until May the next year. Had enough money put back and my house is paid for so I hunted, trapped, and shot Ice through the winter into the spring. Started growing weed that year and went all out. Growing was so much work and time consuming that it got me away from the needle. But once I started harvesting I got back on the needle. Then I got popped off for cannabis production on October 13th of last year. I sat in County for 4.5 months staring at a 5 yr plea offer in DOC before being offered Drug Court. I got out of rehab on April 1st. After 4 previous rehabs this one is the one that counted. It is the 12 step program that catapulted me into this new life of peace and contentment. So in my experience NA / AA or more importantly the 12 spiritual steps outlined in them is where it's at for recovery from addiction.
Good luck!
Alcoholics anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous cost nothing andover the long run is the one program that actually works. Once the addict decides to correct his life pretty cheap and easy solution.
Jail almost never corrects the addiction.
Jail NEVER corrects addiction. Or anything else for that matter...SSome people need to do time and be separated from society, no doubt. But putting them in an iron bar hell, especially when most will be required to rejoin society at some point, is beyond counter productive.
That's because today's prisons don't want to rehabilitate anyone. They are run for profit, and the more people they cram in there, the more money they make. These same for profit prisons can then use their prisoners to make things that can be called 'made in America' and pay the workers even less than Chinese since they are prisoners, and you don't have to transport the goods across the ocean either.
Hey GC can you have a car waiting?
--Richard Matt and David Sweat
Prison should be for people who are a real danger to other people, those who rape, murder, assault and otherwise physically harm others, or cause massive financial harm. Punishments such as community service, probation, fines etc. are what should be used for everything else. Our penal system is an international disgrace, and needs to be severely cut back.
As a hardcore alcoholic I found AA to be completely counter productive. Ended up making things worse. I beat all my many addictions without any help. If I can do it, anyone can.
Bravo to ZH for putting this story out.
This is so far off the radar that the MSM would never cover it, and I live within a 3-hour drive of Gloucester, so this is where I have to come to find the story!
One of my hi-skool friends became a pill-head. Took many years, heroin, and three overdoses, later, before he came clean. Opiate pills fuck you up so bad. I've lamented on ZH before, how in his old auto-shop jobs, he had to take a drug test in which certain drugs had to be present, but other drugs not. What a shame unto human dignity.
Big Pharma just got approval to script oxycontin for youth as young as 11 years old.
a dedicated group at www.stopthedrugwar.org could use contributions
here's a link to a great article that compiles the recent influential medical people who have gone public about the fraud going on in science & medicine :
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/fraudulent-scientific-resear...
Most Scientific Research of Western Medicine Untrustable & Fraudulent, Say Insiders and ExpertsYou could lose a tooth.
Or we could start a witch hunt against opiates and drive chronic pain sufferers to suicide.
I have degenerative disk disease and have had serious pain issues for about 15 years. My problem is not going to get better, only worse. I am on a pain management program with opioid narcotics and have been for a decade. Some of the shit I hear scares the shit out of me. I feel like I am constantly under suspicion for drug abuse, with out these meds I could not function. As it is I am productive without them what??? SSDI, join the FSA...what? A bullet to the head?
Have experienced serious, long term pain - diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis 20 years ago.
Spent a couple of years in hell. Only pain killers stopped me going the suicide route.
I'm now in remission for some odd reason, but something those who have never been there don't understand is that you will do ANYTHING to stop that kind of pain.
Fortunately I'm not in US so a lot of your concerns didn't apply in my case.
Hope things work out OK for you.
Where does this stuff come from? How do they get it into the country, past the DHS agents?
Oooh! What a great idea! In fact it's so great let's start doing that for 12 year olds and up!!
Thats what Vicodin is for and we have no overdoses of that, oh wait never mind.
Funny that you should mention that.
Heroin, cocaine, and other 'illegal drugs' were once available in over-the-counter medicines. Heroin in particular was sold alongside aspirin by Bayer.
http://www.pharmacytechs.net/blog/old-school-medicine-ads/
And yet we really don't hear of the drug crazies in the late 19th, early 20th century.
So the question is: who or what decided they were 'bad' drugs?
Expansive publishing. and closing of the mental health facilities in the 70s.
http://www.openculture.com/2014/04/igmund-freud-researched-got-addicted-...
Search wikipedia for "Cocaine-Crazed Negro", you'll have your answers.
Agree with you. Just watch the corporate prison system twist arms to get rid of programs like this.
Not to mention that legalizing drugs "would put the CIA out of business."
-- CIA expert and author, Douglas Valentine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzGu5bxnOc
Rand Corp. crunched the numbers two decades ago, finding treatment for users more cost-effective than conventional drug enforcement. Of course, entire industries and agencies are dependent upon the status quo, so they will surely fight the treatment approach tooth and nail.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB6003/index1.html
Kudos to Chief of Police Leonard Campanello for his courage and humanity in trying treatment as a solution!
"Of course, entire industries and agencies are dependent upon the status quo, so they will surely fight the treatment approach tooth and nail."
Rackets and perverse incentives.
That guy needs to stay away from nail guns.
That's what they said about ciggies, we proved them wrong, again.
A fag once in a while won't hurt you.
Excessive fag use will kill you prematurely./s
I used to smoke up to 2 packs a day in my mid-20's. Now in my mid-40s I smoke on average a pack a week. I am fine with that, I never smoke in my home or in my car, only outdoors. I don't understand the demonization of moderate Tabacco use.
On an occasional nice hot spring day with hayfever a lack of wind and a lot of smokers I have to work around I do kind of empathise with the sentiment. Being outside is not some universal fix to smoke.
PS. I'm not saying they are right, just that during the very miserable day I can empathise with it.
The tobacco nazzies are the climate change nazzies of my era.
It is better smelling being every where without the cigarette smoke, however.
You don't get that the Police facilitated drug activity, and all take payoffs from the Mafia. What they have realized is that they are now on the downside of their collusive money-making money pump of corruption. In brief, Government legislated Heroin & Cocaine is next due to the Rights paradigm, and the medical disease model. Drug addiction is now viewed as a 'social/medical' disease that is treated with Government intervention because private industry cannot draw huge profit from it unless they can force BIG Gubberment to foot the bill. The Mafia drug dealers have saturated the markets with cheap dope and have destroyed profit margin entirely. When the 'PIGS' can no longer get kickbacks from the drug dealers they turn to BIG Gubberment for their next trick like the Hookers they are.
The War On Drugs has turned focus to the War On Government Coffers.
The addicts are the symptom and the victims of the chosenite CIA based drug cartel. To allow this ancient plot to continue while stealing from your neighbors to pay for your charity to assuage your self guilt is phony and hypocritical. If you want to help the addicts then DONATE YOUR PROPERTY AND TIME.
DUH!!! Anyone could have figured this out after watching the fucking Andy Griffith Show for a month.
You wait till I throw down my 6th grade education on them, using my fifth grade right now.
My father told me that he was such a good student in the fifth grade, that the teachers asked him to stay another year to help the new kids coming in...
I was never so happy as when I learned to count to a hundred.
Wow! A hundred! That's, like, the next number after eighty-munch, right ?
To show his heart is in the right place, Gloucester Chief of Police Leonard Campanello should work without pay, give up his pension and turn this money saved over to a non-profit drug treatment facility. I could also ask him to turn over the unspent payoffs he received over the years for providing protection to dope dealers but he already spent that money on whores and slow horses.
Thanks! Asinine posts like this always make me feel better about myself =]
If this was the case, every one in that small town would be in on the grift, and knowing the town, that is not the case.
Find somewhere else to sharpen those claws and rhetoric skills.
Exactly how we'll handle ya, Skippy.
heroin users rarely give it up for long. good luck with that.
That's what your wife said to her sister.
I thought good luck with that is what his sister said to his soon to be wife..
Wars are good for employment and corruption.
If losing a limb adds to empolyment, count me OUT.
You can arrest your way out of this but you have to arrest John Kerry.
Study the Opium Wars in China. This policy change is necessary if we as a nation will be able to stand.
The only way China finally ended the problem was having the cultural communist revolution and shooting each and every addict/dealer/distributer. They shot a LOT of addicts.
Shame they did not shoot the dealers like the Red Shield in London and many prominent American families plus the predecessor to HSBC bank.
The banksters started the opium wars and profited hugely.
They still do.
They ALWAYS PROFIT. Know humanities enemy human parasities
So, like the answer to 80% of the other problems on ZH, shoot the bankers - problems solved.
I learned from fellow zh post years ago, about how the Brits also used drug drops on Palestine during WWI times... dropping loads of hashish & opium, with the goal to create addicts, softening them up for the Zionist onslaught ... NPR ran a special this morning about USA heroin OD deaths, over 8,000 last year, up from 2,000 like 10 years ago...
In the simplest terms, the War on Drugs is nothing but a manifestation of Fear by those who prattle on about 'Freedom' and the 'Constitution' out one side of their cake holes, while the other side side says 'create more prisons', 'prosecute them', 'take their ill-gotten $gains', etc. Total, bald-faced, laughed-out-of-town, Hypocrisy...
Until my fellow man steals from me, assaults me, destroys my property, etc. (all of which have laws on the books to address), he can smoke, inject, snort - whatever, his way to nirvana.
You are wise.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
Nice.
First thing that I read from you that I completely agree with.
Let's hope we don't have to change too much.ald
The war on drugs is prohibition part two with govt at war on two fronts, Are we surprised that heroin traffic increases during a decade long occupation of the world's largest supplier and that our prisons are full of nonviolent drug offenders.
End prohibition
The war on drugs is just another made up cause to justify government infringement on your rights. Goes hand in hand with FATCA, IRS audits and everything else.
The war on drugs is prohibition part two with govt at war on two fronts, Are we surprised that heroin traffic increases during a decade long occupation of the world's largest supplier and that our prisons are full of nonviolent drug offenders.
End prohibition
But, but, "Cocaine-Crazed Negroes" man, think of the chilluns!
Glad to see someone in authority is making sense in this country.
Public servants, not "authority"
This is going to upset an entire mega-industry. He should get a remote car starter tomorrow.
naah, remote car starter won't help. they'll just put the plastique in the remote control. ka-boom.
Wind up on the drive shaft and pull a pin.
Oh... nevermind.
Gotta be a catch somewhere in this deal.
Nope, this don't end well.
Well if your war on drugs only concentrates its efforts on the small time seller and users then yes you fail. If you are willing to follow the money all the way back to the banks who launder this money and make arrests you may could have some effect.
If your not willing to go after the banks and politicians that make this happen ie (Clinton-Mena airport, McConnel- ship traffic ect ect) then you are wasting everyones time and money. Prohibition at the local level don't work, never has and never will.
- our new attorney general was given this job as reward for crushing the lower level whistleblowing about all the drug money being laundered by the bankster criminals.
Brooks Agnew on TFR had a good half hour to an hour report on the details of the "legalized" drug laundering (truthfrequencyradio.com) a few months ago ...
He just got uninvited to the National Police Chief's Ball. Bad stormtrooper. No MRAPs for you.
I remember an old joke from UK.
First guy asks second guy if they'd like tickets for the policeman's ball.
Second declined.
Fisrt guy said "it's not a dance, it's a raffle"
Sold out in no time!
Do they turn up with drugs at the police station or do they actually get their drugs from the police station?
Yes.
Police are only there to give you hell p.
A far more cost effective approach than the private prison boondogle.
Now, if they'd just allocate a bit of that money to those Bushy/Clitony Wascley Wabbits importing it.
$140 to $20...
Just another example of the girth given a$$ rape of the United Sheeple States of Amoralka.
This cop is one of the 'good' ones.
If society and government would wake up to the truth like this cop did, the world would be a much better place.
I hope the Feds do not charge him for not fullfilling his duties in the war against drugs.
This war against the American people, the so-called war on drugs (One of many being waged against the American people), will not stop as it is racket, as all wars are.
It is a racket to bolster salaries, graft, and careers, boost equipment supplier bottom lines, and a way to produce more slaves and profits for the DC US' gulags. It is also a way to violently control the American people.
So long as there are those, psychopaths, willing to commit treason, and harm and cage Americans for profit and entertainment, the gulags and related thugs will persist in their war against the American people. This thug, if he were serious about stopping his treason, would resign, and then work and beg for atonement from his victims, the American people. That he has not is indicative of his continued desire to commit treason against the American people, and risk our wrath in the future.
The equivalent of a Miranda Warning for the gun and badge thugs, call it the Treason Warning:
"Anything you say and do will be held against you under Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution. You will also be held accountable for oath violations. "Following orders" is not a viable defense. You will have the right to have at least two witnesses testify against you in a court made up of the people from the community(s) that you have terrorized. If found guilty, you will be sentenced to the guillotine. Do you understand this warning?"
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
And what, pray, does Zion have to do with the war on drugs?
two words.........afghanistan
all good points. i would add that the war on drugs also allows TPTB to flood the US with immigrants as they destroy SA countries with violence and terror inflicted by the cartels they support.
it destroyed the black community as fathers were ripped from their homes and thrown in jail for non violent drug crimes. it also allowed criminality to become the most profitable industry in poor urban areas all over the country, further destroying black culture and their family unit.
as both of the above problems became worse, it also justified a massive expansion of the police state, welfare state, and related budgets.
lastly, as so many have pointed out here, it has been a tool of war of the international bankers for at least two centuries. monopolize the supply and then flood the market, get everyone hooked. now it's institutionalized in the states as we have opiates in pill form and doctors who go to medical school to be indoctrinated into writing presecriptions to treat symptoms instead of abiding their hippocratic oath. all the while big pharma, the MIC, CIA, and the police and welfare states benefit.
i could go on and on. end prohibition now.
"We care not who prints the fiat currency, for shall the People have Freedom of Choice to consume their want of eat, drink, medicine/drugs without fear of assinine Goobermint Thug Laws, those evil vultures who have heretofore preyed upon the masses by debt instruments of slavery, yea will wither on the vine as amidst the longest drought as their souls decay forevermore".....
maxim of the House of Psychedelics Hendrix Lennon Huxley Hoffmann Shulgin McKenna Leary & the Grateful Dead & the Countless TurnedON
Leonard Campanello, turn in your badge and gun. No pension or 401k payout. No further taxpayer paycheck. No unemployment benefits.
Take your progressive PC and shove it up your ass. Just out of curiosity, what is the DEA telling you? Is this about budget forecasting again. Taxpayers will replace you..
Take your unthinking ignorance and jam it up your own arsehole.
I think you are going to need an arsehole enlargement procedure first, to enable you to succeed.
I'm an ret. cop and I love this man......
Amen!
Thank you for serving the public as a police officer. Be careful, special interest groups are spinning a agenda. It's all about 2016-2017 budgets.
The war on debt is over and we lost...
The war on Oil is over and we lost...
The war on war is on and we don't look like winning.
What war can we win? On freedom!
This Antimedia.org seems to have its head screwed on.
They talk about real issues; not like those libertarian sites who talk about "invisible hand" being lost like the last frontier of the West. Like a page out of a western :
"The man in black rode out like a bat out of hell with the shooter riding behind him."
All drug laws at the federal level are unconstitutional.
So instead of locking up addicts, they try to help them. Gee what a novel concept. I could've told them that, and in fact have.
Besides, people have the right to do drugs under the 9th amendment.
I'll briefly support drug laws to watch every liberal overdose and die.
Beyond that, keep drugs off the streets and place a death penalty instead of life in prison without parole.
Drug problems will be eliminated instantly.
Must be tough spending all your life as a brain-dead, bigoted arsehole.
Maybe there's a program that can help you with that.
From many of my cronys from the seventies,
the death penalty has been very active for addicts as well as users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE
You first.
Say Good-bye, Rush Limbaugh.
I have a right to do drugs. You can kill me by sending armed men after me, but you can never take away that right.
Probably what's going on here is someone you know died from drugs or had their life ruined. Being an addict and overdosing is a choice. I've been an addict, I know what I'm talking about. Your friend decided to keep using and paid the price for it. I have no sympathy.
Like most people, you'll blame the drug or the dealer, but never blame the user. Grow the fuck up.
You stole money to support your habit.
No atonement available.
The only thing I've ever stolen in my life was a bible placed by the Gideon's. Go give a blowjob to a .357.
motor vehicle accidents - USA is averaging circa 35,000 deaths a year (topped out 1970 @ 50,000) - IIRC, the alcohol related crashes/deaths are around 1/3. Then you've got the non-fatal injuries, going up 10x that, say over 100,000 a year.
Hard to go a day @ the L.A. news and not see a wicked alcohol involved death crash.
Changing from an alcoholic nation to something else is our challenge. Colorado topped $50 million in recreational cannabis sales for the month of June.
Atomizer, it is hard to even know how to respond to such a ignorant comment.
Every liberal will overdose?? WTF ARE YOU TALIKNG ABOUT? Ever hear of Rush Limbaugh and his oxy habit? So Rush is liberal. Go it.
Trust the police and government with the authority to execute millions?? Sounds really smart genius. Make sure your buddy Rush is the first one agains the wall.
And pray no one you love ever makes a mistake or gets unjustly charged because we got to kill them because drugs is bad.
You've never had Oxycontin have you?
Shit the way you talk ,crack is your habit.
And not for long.
Rush was getting his maid service to pick up scripts for him, she was giving him bags of 4,000 oxy's @ a time - he almost lost his hearing and had to have a cochlear implant, iirc.
Any Rush Limbo fan, just know that if you were listening to him through the 1990s and early 2000s, most likely he was high as a kite on Big Pharma heroin.
And after his rehab stint, he still went on about sending people to prison for drug use. Ultimate douchebag. Good on the NFL for keeping him out of league ownership.
Yes he is a piece of shit. Calling Jerry Garcia just another dead doper. They should put that on Rush's gravestone. Hope he burns in a fire.
It's not a war on drugs.
It's a war against personal freedom.
Bill Hicks-Sane Man-The Laff Stop-Austin,Texas-July 14,1989
whatever happened with that bill hicks = alex jones meme? hilarious video.
If you want to end the drug war, end the CIA.
The CIA and its five eyes counter parts are war criminals, have admitted to crimes against humanity, rule the drug and money laundring apparatus and more.
They should all be removed from existence.
The war on drugs was not about drugs in the first place so it was not lost as it was never started.
My mind and body are mine
If I choose to drink, smoke, sample a little non prescription, that is my business as long as I do not harm anyone in the process. I consider this to be personal liberty.
These wars the politicos, prison owners, legal profession, religeous wackos and such, burden we non conformists and free loving people with is akin to dictatorship.
Who gives them the power to order and enforce what I do with myself?
Not I.
No problems with treatment instead of arrest, but you cannot 'treat' them in an hour or a day. Set up some kind of 3 week program where they can get cleaned up. And get them to turn in their dealers. The dealers are the real criminals. The users are the victims.
You don't win a war by killing soldiers. You go after the officers. (See American Revolution).
Dealers are entrepreneurs. They are creating value for their customers by providing a product at great personal risk, and the smarter ones among them are actually making a good living doing it. Just because you don't like their product gives you no right to use violence against them.All drug laws are initiations of force, and those who initiate force are the "real criminals".
The mentality that everyone has to live according to one set of values and preferences is the biggest problem with American culture today. Grow up and realize that you have no special knowledge of how other people should live, and that not everyone shares your preferences.
Drug dealers operate in one of the freest and most unregulated markets that exist. The demand is there, supply exisists, but as you stated, at large risk. One of the last vestiges of true free enterprise. And although there is huge gov regulation (if caught), if not caught it is devoid of any regulation, even taxes.
"The War on Drugs"...what a farce, nothing but job security for cops, the courts, prisons and the DEA, just one of many "hammers" to "control" the masses. Seat belt laws my ass!
If this gets too popular, the federal government (CIA) will start offing the chief of police who start these projects. But kudos to fictional "officials" who follow this model.
Next step... void all laws that force or prohibit humans from making decisions about their own bodies. And minds too, of course.
A person calling him-/herself honest is to be distrusted. ( I used to call myself honest :-))
Did not see this feeling Rhetoric from you concerning the ACA honestann.
Abortion is murder of the most innocent.
Otherwise, yeah, do what you want, as long as someone else doesnt have to pick up the pieces.
Just to be an adverse prick, Buster,
I don't care how many aborted 20 week old fetuses they cut up for parts,/s
If we can save the life of one thieving drug addict, life will be worthwhile./s
I again don't care who you are, morality is not given by any known god, it is earned.
War on drugs could simply be a mechanism for a power elite to monopolize its trade and to influence its price. So they have been winning greatly I guess. If you take at face value the stated objectives of any policy you are being naive. The reason it has been going on for 50+ years is likely because it fullfills certain unnamed objectives, right?
Further consider fractional reserve banking. The banks need to recoup those cash dollar bills to keep a minimal capital ratio. Then consider the role cash plays in illegal transactons. Connect the dots and determine who is possibly pulling the strings in the drug trade.
Therefore, consider legalizing ALL drugs. (could the banking system handle it ? ;-))
This chief just doesnt get it. You're not trying to stop drug use, theres no law that could do that, you're just eliminating the feds competion.
Wow! Just when I'd lost all faith in society in general, and law enforcement in particular, along comes Chief Campanello and ruins it for me. Now I'm going to have to rescind my membership in Cynics R Us.
Well done Chief. But please, watch your back. TPTB can't be happy about this.
This man has probably saved the state hundreds of thousands of dollars but the corporate prison system will want him drummed out.
Using that same logic, the war on all crime is lost too.
I agree in a way. There really isn't a war on crime at the above the $750.00 range.
The NSA could filter out the criminals, in and not in government, in probably 8.7 minutes locally, stately, nationally, and internationally.
Same for the illegals and those emails dedacted from the Billarys servers.
Ibogaine therapy is the most effective way to get rid of the heroin and most other hard core drug addictions. Of course, both ibogaine and Iboga tree bark are illegal in the U.S. and people have to travel to Mexico, Costa Rica, Thailand, the Netherlands or even Gabon (where Iboga originally comes from) to get rid of their addiction.
Why don't people who get surgery and have straight up morphine come out as junkies?
The whole "theory" of drugs is nasty, filthy, classist propaganda. You are either with the people, or you are a tool of the slaveowners.
The Drug War is the first stage of the modern enclosure movement.
I will go smoke up right now. What the fuck is anyone going to do about it? That's right, nothing.
Hey, it's a free county.
Go up if you want to.
Adios.
Yeah right with the "free country" bullshit from the coasters. You have no idea what or who you are dealing with out here in the hinterlands. Keep on but the day is coming.