Cocaine consumption, not to be mistaken for the drink shelved for its 'indecent' name, is a problem for every major city in every major country on every major planet in the Universe. Not only does it send its users (and pushers) to highs never experienced by NASA trained astronauts, but it also gives astronomical returns to its planters / growers / traffickers / smugglers and packers. Billions have been spent to try and put an end to this even more billions in size market that goes unregulated. An industry that is supposed to be the modern day corruption of man and the reason why we still rely on petrol running cars and vote for Bush's and, well, Bush's.
It has been the dream of Governments and their agencies, old and new alike, to make some form of dent in this industry. From arresting key figures of the 'drug families' to multi million pound drug busts and sneaky stings. Every effort, however, seems to merely scratch the surface as another family head comes from nowhere to take over, multi million pound drug caches confiscated are 'destroyed' and sneaky stings go after a few hours and that one phone call.
In its bid to gain favor in the UK, the Brown Government is now not only trying to turn the UK economy round (read: again!) but also rolling its sleeves at another scheme. Stopping cocaine consumption through a new campaign to save the rain forest.
I'm all for trying to stop cocaine consumption, especially since the drug has become more and more accessible to the younger communities of the UK (and no doubt most of the World). However, WTF are you guys playing at???
If smokers don't stop smoking when they know their lungs will go black (thank you oh picture on cig packet), footballers and sportsman of all sports don't stop 'sporting' knowing that fifteen 11yr old kids had a hand in making their branded sportswear and if 70% of the UK still shop at Marks and Sparks despite employing half of Morocco to do their clothes for less than a $ an hour. Why on Earth will snorters stop snorting because of a tree or two?? We still use papers for Gods sake and in many areas still cant be arsed to recycle! We still drive petrol run cars and are not too bothered with polar bears and melting ice caps!
It has been the dream of Governments and their agencies, old and new alike, to make some form of dent in this industry. From arresting key figures of the 'drug families' to multi million pound drug busts and sneaky stings. Every effort, however, seems to merely scratch the surface as another family head comes from nowhere to take over, multi million pound drug caches confiscated are 'destroyed' and sneaky stings go after a few hours and that one phone call.
In its bid to gain favor in the UK, the Brown Government is now not only trying to turn the UK economy round (read: again!) but also rolling its sleeves at another scheme. Stopping cocaine consumption through a new campaign to save the rain forest.
I'm all for trying to stop cocaine consumption, especially since the drug has become more and more accessible to the younger communities of the UK (and no doubt most of the World). However, WTF are you guys playing at???
If smokers don't stop smoking when they know their lungs will go black (thank you oh picture on cig packet), footballers and sportsman of all sports don't stop 'sporting' knowing that fifteen 11yr old kids had a hand in making their branded sportswear and if 70% of the UK still shop at Marks and Sparks despite employing half of Morocco to do their clothes for less than a $ an hour. Why on Earth will snorters stop snorting because of a tree or two?? We still use papers for Gods sake and in many areas still cant be arsed to recycle! We still drive petrol run cars and are not too bothered with polar bears and melting ice caps!
This UK Government is scaring me. We are British FFS!
This is something the French would do!
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Muah ha ha ha
This from an Article in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "Higher Learning"
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Ninety-six people were arrested in a San Diego State University drug bust.
Where's Captain Renault when you need him? I'm shocked, shocked, to learn that drug dealing is rampant at fraternities at San Diego State (one of Playboy's top 10 party schools). Actually, what shocks me is the price the student dealers were charging for cocaine: $35 a gram. In my college days almost 30 years ago, at a small, northeastern liberal-arts school with a less illustrious party heritage, a gram cost $100. So in constant dollars, the price of cocaine has fallen by 85 percent, to about $16 a gram -- imagine how many more coke-fueled novels Jay McInerney could have written at that price!
You'd have to be sucking on a doobie as big as a submarine to think our current drug-control policies work: from 1982 to 2005, the Drug Enforcement Administration's budget increased roughly tenfold, the national arrest rate for drug offenses more than doubled (from 286 per 100,000 to 600 per 100,000) ... and a dangerous drug like cocaine became dramatically less expensive. Meanwhile, busts for the possession of marijuana, which also figured prominently in the San Diego State investigation, still account for the most drug arrests in this country.
The war on drugs not only wastes law-enforcement resources, it also corrodes our respect for the law in general. Using a relatively benign drug like marijuana should become a regulated pastime, indulged in by consenting adults, much like drinking alcohol or gambling. Drunk driving kills more than 17,000 people each year, and 3 percent of the U.S. population meets the criteria for "problem gamblers." But no one talks seriously about reviving the 18th Amendment or shuttering Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Why? Because Prohibition taught us that banning such activities creates a nation of lawbreakers and a popular culture that exalts criminality. Costly, dubious, and ineffective legal strictures just end up undermining the social compact they're intended to reinforce.
But I still don't have much patience for the reaction from the "can't-we-all-just-do-a-bong" crowd, some of whom criticized the DEA for arresting these kids, and the university's president for cooperating in the investigation. The law is the law is the law, whether it prohibits hiring illegal immigrants, cheating on your taxes, or not dealing and smoking dope. If you don't like the law, work to change it. If you break the law, you take your chances. And don't be shocked, shocked, when the authorities actually enforce it.
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Let us be thankful that governments all around the world are equally stupid when it comes to this shit. Just shows that if you want to fight drugs, you need to put a crackhead in charge, at least he would know whats going on!
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