According to the DEA, marijuana should be here.

I do not mean to be rude, but the reason why you're feeling no empathy is because you assume that drug addiction is a choice that people make, turning away from better and brighter options and choosing the short road to an early death.

It isn't. It's generally a result of inability to deal with life, a job, trauma from their past etc. It is a result of social systems which allow people to sink to the point they need an escape. Look at any mental ward, most of the inmates (if allowed) will smoke. Same with various anon groups, smoking/coffee etc are almost encouraged as an alternate addiction to the one that will put them in a grave far earlier.

Addiction is a crutch, a way of escaping from something else.

The work by Carl Hart on addiction provides a lot of proof that when given social interaction and ways to reintegrate with society, addicts can and do have the fortitude to get off drugs. And that most drug addicts are fully functional, and drugs are a way for them to cope with the stresses or lack of control in their life.

http://www.drcarlhart.com/

To fix a problem, you first have to understand it. That does not require sympathy or empathy. That is basic science and it's based on evidence. That the DEA is freaking out over krokodil is because they don't understand that drug abuse in the US is a factor of the social situation people find themselves in. At least for the classes of people that will use a cheap and dangerous drug (not to put too fine a point on it, predominately black). It would not be unexpected that because of the supposed danger, users found with krokodil may end up with far harsher sentences than heroin users. Soaring African-American incarceration rates again?

Funny how we never see videos like this over oxycodone or cocaine abusers, or housewifes who will pop whatever prescription they can get their hands on. They are no less addicted, but it's a nice, clean, acceptable addiction that allows them to stumble on through life. Is that EIA?

*deas

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I'd trust any drug dealer more than the DEA. Their main job is making sure they still have a job.

I had an adventurous single life when I was younger, and briefly dated a drug-dealer for a while. (She sold weed; just 'edgy' enough to be fun, and not threatening enough to fear a prison sentence or death).

Anyway, she was hardcore. I didn't realize how much until I asked her (what at the time I thought was) a generally innocent question about her 'work'. Her exact words were "I move over 500 lbs of weed a day".

She said this without really moving the rest of her body, and while looking straight ahead with something exactly like a thousand-yard-stare. She was exactly the kind of person the DEA has been kicking down doors to get to for decades. Otherwise she was a really cool girl!

Shakedown...yep, that's as good a description as anything. I seriously doubt bringing in the feds would help. The DEA would probably just kick themselves for not having thought of this before. The Justice Department is doing it's damnedest to avoid considering the implications of their name. There's not much of any place to turn here...

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Barry Cooper vs. DEA Agent has been added as a related post - related requested by Trancecoach on that post.

and as a way of reminder for any who might care of my own particular line of reasoning on the matter of the police:

All cops will at some time in their career, witness or commit a felony (as witness, by a member of their fraternity or a citizen) being committed and fail to report the same according to law, hence, all cops are felons. Simple approach to logic really, takes no long-winded explanation to render it so in any reasonable person's mind.

What newtboy speaks above being true and false and meaningless on points, however, ALL cops are cops, there is no good or bad when referencing law enforcement 2000+. The good ones use the time spent in that profession to further their reputation and credentials for what it is to have been a cop and bail the fuck out...move the fuck on in their quest for righteous livelihood....

The actual SHIT cops (and ALL prison system employees unless by virtue of some humanitarian position they actually reform or assist anyone), border patrol, coast guard, DEA, DHS, ICE, etc etc.) stay in for the duration, because that bullshit is all they are.

Shes a narc and a kidnapper, she copped a plea and narced on everyone to get out of the kidnappings charge. She also recently narced giving feds IP addresses/usernames/emails of contacts regarding the drug/incense "Spice" which was legal. Her videos are a dea honeypot to lure people in to contacting her she then narcs and you get busted.

She deserves a snitches necklace

This is not a dupe. This is better with sound!
So many people are so well dressed! Market St has gone down since then.
I didn't count one homeless panhandler. Did you? I also didn't see any cops!

I wonder why this is... I wonder why there seems to be little in the way of street laws (or any regulation at all for that matter), and yet, there seems to be a seamless form of voluntary exchange through the video. A give and a take. And even without such regulation, there is that amazing road there. I wonder how they built it without the government. Hmm. puzzling.

Without government regulation, why aren't they shooting each other?

This must be a fake film.

No Federal Reserve, no income tax, no DMV, no gun control, no department of education, no DEA, no permits for everything, no fines (for riding on the back of a truck). What savages!

Like Marx said, way too prosperous!

(But of course, it's not a fake film.)

But...who built that road?

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by xxovercastxx.

found it: http://videosift.com/video/Drugs-are-bad-mkay-Head-of-DEA

sadly, I cannot invoke dupe

EDIT: doh, didn't look up.

Do you believe this is a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Drugs-are-bad-mkay-Head-of-DEA?