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    If there were no more for drugs, trafficing in them would not be a problem...... The basic business premise of supply and demand is at work here...if the American consumers didn't want drugs, there wouldn't be people here from outside and inside the country selling them.....

    Making drugs illegal and having some token law enforcement effort accomplishes very little....it seems this country should have learned that during the prohibition days.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce lee View Post
    We need selective population pruning.
    Yeah, why not???? Hitler tried that!!! All he wanted to do is "prune" out the undesireable elements!!!!

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    The problem with selective population pruning is that it is the ones doing the actual work that get pruned.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Severson View Post
    If there were no more for drugs, trafficing in them would not be a problem...... The basic business premise of supply and demand is at work here...if the American consumers didn't want drugs, there wouldn't be people here from outside and inside the country selling them.....

    Making drugs illegal and having some token law enforcement effort accomplishes very little....it seems this country should have learned that during the prohibition days.....
    Here in Dallas and I am sure else where but here they have found heroin in elementary schools being distributed as a candy looking substance. I dont think these kids are demanding heroin. The neighborhoods are so flooded with it that it gets into elementary schools and before you know it you have another generation of dope heads.
    I also know that as Americans we have our own issues but when some one can jump back and forth across borders at will with no name to even trace the guy that can only lead to a bad situation. Hell I went to Mx and was given a hard time to come back. I was told it was my lucky day because I should not make it. I know this topic has went around and around but I guess its just a little wishful thinking.
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    Well, it has been beat to death for the last 40 years...and the results have always been the same..nothing.... It's a whole lot easier to buy a bag of weed today then it was when I was 16, so if anything our course of "enforcement" for the last 40 years can be classified as totally ineffective... So if the enforcement is ineffective then the approach to the problem is wrong. It hasn't worked, doesn't work now, and won't work in the future so obviously it's time for a change...

    Legalize drugs, control the legal distribution of drugs, tax the hell out of them, assign military units to DEA offices.... Cut off all aid to any country found to be exporting drugs to the US and apply the strictest possible laws governing people from those countries coming to the US for any reason... Enforce the immigration laws we have now by assigning military units to Border Patrol offices.

    Other changes would of course have to be incorporated, but the big change would have to somehow come in the attitude of this country towards drugs.... Prohibition didn't work on alcohol, why should we expect it to work on drugs?????
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    We're on our way. I see today that there is a movement afoot to legalize pot. At the same time, we are criminalizing cigarettes.
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    any drug is legal if the government can tax it. pot is not that big of a deal the way i see it .there is some that can not pay for there Rx drugs for pain and have no insurance . and use a bit of pot for pain .let them grow it in the usa .close the border pot not killing. it s the a$$ holes comming over the border looking for money when the pot drys up they will be doing something else that is no good thats what they do
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    Thank you Pat; I second that.
    Unless people live with pain everyday, some of them have no idea.
    I have never smoked and at 47 my lungs have about give up on me.
    I live on Morphine now and it still seams like I have a engine block sitting on my chest, all of my ribs feel like they are broken because of inflammation on my lungs.
    Some folks do need relief from the pain, though I don't think it is for me.
    The Government is comming around in some states now though.

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    It's not just the border towns anymore; the DEA just busted 300 people here in Missouri and Illinois that were running drugs for the La Familia cartel. Get this; La Familia has their own doctors and treatment centers where they rehab Mexican drug users and then force them to work in their drug business that caters strictly to supplying Americans addicts and users. I saw an interview with some DEA officials on TV the other night talking about it. Can you believe it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by falconvan View Post
    It's not just the border towns anymore; the DEA just busted 300 people here in Missouri and Illinois that were running drugs for the La Familia cartel. Get this; La Familia has their own doctors and treatment centers where they rehab Mexican drug users and then force them to work in their drug business that caters strictly to supplying Americans addicts and users. I saw an interview with some DEA officials on TV the other night talking about it. Can you believe it?
    You know what falcon, it does not suprise me anymore. Sad but true... Even with 9-11 illegals come and go at will . Bring trailers full of dope across our borders with ease. But get this La Famila is but just 1 of the cartels. They are newbies to the game. You would never think you could see heads rolling down the street, people killed in groups of 10 and beheaded, children getting sold for sex on American soil. All by people that dont belong here to begin with....What does it take????? Are people not voting/saying anything?
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    Just goes to show how totally ineffective our drug enforcement program is... kind of like trying to **** out a forest fire!!!!

    I really thought the "Just say No" campaign would solve the drug problem......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evolvo View Post
    So, do you guys remember when the CEO's of big tobacco stood before congress and swore under oath that nicotine was not addictive? These white white collar criminals have the most efficient drug distribution organization in the country. Of course this drug, very addictive and destructive, is legal in all 50 states so your not a criminal if you buy it (adults only, yea right!). I just looked up "Joe Camel" on Wikipedia. Remember that? They found memos from the RJR marketing dept. talking about how they had to insure future tobacco sales by capturing the 14 to 24 yr old market. They figured this would guarantee future sales for the next 25 yrs. So if you started smoking at age 14 they figure your either dead or quit by the time your 39, am I cynical, or are they?

    Then theres the movie "Reefer Madness" an anti pot movie produced by the alcohol industry in 1939. Just goes to show a little propaganda goes a long way. They demonized pot 80 yrs ago and cornered the market on mind altering drug distribution. I don't smoke pot but I do like to have a beer with dinner, so this is OK with me.

    Of course, these two drugs are legal and taxed. La Familia is not sneaking across the border to sell alcohol or tobacco. Gee, maybe we should legalize all the other drugs and collect taxes on them, too! Talk about inspiring a lot of entrepreneurship and job creation!
    Like I said we have our own problems, we just dont need illegals coming in and capitalizing on some thing thats illegal. Make drugs legal and they will capitalize on some thing else illegal. Its to easy, no name to identify you.....
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    It just blows me away that a crime family is cleaning up their own people to use as weapons against Americans. That's not just wanting to sell dope, that's wanting to overthrow a country.
    I'm a recovering coke and alcohol addict with 15 years clean and I have to agree with legalization. Let's spend the $$$ coming up with new and better treatments instead of filling up the jails with people who otherwise might have a chance at recovery. Sometimes I think prison will put some people over the edge for good who might have still had a chance at getting better. If my 20 year old son were an addict and wanted help; I'd rather see him in a treatment facility rather than a prison with violent crime offenders. But it's tricky. Many times they go to jail for the things that the drugs made them do rather than the drugs themselves. Legalize coke and a serious addict will still steal money to get it when he's out and needs a fix. How do we legalize that? I've worked with addicts for years and seen a lot of people die from abuse; some good friends. Bottom line is if they dont want to get better, there's little you can do for them, and not a lot of real good answers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evolvo View Post
    Guess it depends on the shade of your skin,huh.


    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...1081193.column
    Not really illegal is illegal. Doesn't matter if your Irish,Russian, Asian, Jamaican,etc,etc,etc. Like I said if the Mx are taken out of the game on the border the Asians IMO will be next in line to make the money. Others just fly under the radar while everyone is concentrated on Mx. Hell ,Mexicans arent even Mexican,lol.BUT, the problem is open borders and people that come in and out. I have been all over our great country America. From one side to the other ,top to bottom ,and all in between. To pick out one race would be stupid. Mexicans that were in my story were just the ones that came up here in Tx.
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    I thinking the wrong end of the supply chain is being blamed here.... Until the demand stops, the supply will only become more efficient and profitable.... If nobody is buying it, they'll stop bringing it!!!!! Big thing is, our totally inefficient barely operative government has never done anything but token efforts to address the drug problem...and that doesn't even happen til somebody makes it an issue at election time.... The only reason the drug cartels have such a firm foothold in this country is because the drug problem has been totally ignored for the last 40 years

    Bring our troops home and quit fighting in foreign countries where they don't even want our help...

    Assign military units to the DEA and the Border Patrol, lock down the borders, load up the busses with the infiltrators and take them back home....

    Arresting users is ineffective... Works about the same as the medical community, all we're doing is treating the symptoms and not trying to solve the problem....
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