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Leaked Document Indicates Big Proposed Cuts To Drug Czar's Office

Yes, it is but PPACA only guarantees that you will be covered for drug treatment. It does not guarantee that there will be a drug treatment center anywhere near where you can get to

So the DOJ is providing transportation to them or what? The DOJ should not be in the health care or transportation providing business.
 
Goes for immigration and "The Wall", too. As long as there is demand (read: incentive to come), people will come.

Agreed, yet the myth that illegal immigrants are taking (only?) jobs that US citizens do not want is used to counter any effort to deport these illegal workers (called "good hombres" by Trump). On the war on drugs front we claim that drug users (and "mere" drug possessors) are "victims" and only the drug dealers (sellers?) are to be prosecuted.
 
Where the hell do you think all the college kids under 21 are getting their weed? :) On top of that you have people who have been getting their weed from the same friend or friend of a friend for years and that person still sells it cheaper than what the dispensaries sell it for. Sure, if you are over 21 and are just getting into buying weed you are going to start with a dispensary. But that isn't everyone.

I expect that what you say is true about those under 21, however large that market might be. I think I've read a few stories suggesting the Colorado youth are imitating the Dutch youth in a legal scenario, and using less. Don't know that, but I think I've read that.

Weed is rather an exception to the rule because anybody can grow their own. Other drugs like cocaine, not so much. A person can grow a pot plant, but nobody can do the chemistry for coke or heroin or others.
 
I expect that what you say is true about those under 21, however large that market might be. I think I've read a few stories suggesting the Colorado youth are imitating the Dutch youth in a legal scenario, and using less. Don't know that, but I think I've read that.

Weed is rather an exception to the rule because anybody can grow their own. Other drugs like cocaine, not so much. A person can grow a pot plant, but nobody can do the chemistry for coke or heroin or others.
Enter meth, even a bubba can "cook" it.
 
Why, no, not at all. I'm saying that people still go to speakeasies and gangs continue to shoot other gangs over the right to distribute alcohol, just as they did back in the roaring '20s.

Hadn't you noticed?

I saw sarcasm where it didn't exist. My mistake.
 
This is a subject I follow, and know a lot about, because it's killing my sister. She had plenty of drug education, and would never have done heroin from the get go, however...did anyone tell her that all pain killer roads lead to heroin? Probably not. Certainly not the doctor that was selling her the drugs.

As someone who recovered from heroin addiction decades ago, I can tell you first hand that I got into heroin after finding out from experience that the government lied about marijuana killing people. The government turned out to be wrong on weed. However, the government turned out to be right on heroin, but I didn't believe them because they lied about weed.
 
A draft document?

*snore*
 
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