We live in a drugs based society, anyone who doesn't realize it doesn't see the kids in school cracked out on Ritalin becuase everyone thinks ADHD is 'disease', while their soccer mums knock back Valiums to bear living with their husbands who are desperately trying to get a hard on from Cialis and Viagra. First what should happen is a total reform of the FDA to fully be able to administrate over what drugs are being produced. Pharmaceuticals have now taken to creating conditions that are not medical problems and providing medication for it, pushed through to citizens via rolling TV adverts and massive drugs guides in most popular magazines. Pick up a Reader Digest anytime. FDA needs power back to stop being run basically by Big Pharma lobby groups.

After that we must legalize drugs through the state because that will end the illegal supply from the underworld and end one of the longest running cash cows for illegal criminal activity. Once sanctioned through the state, we can start to slowly eliminate the problem with hardcore chemical dependences drugs such as crack cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin. Simply the act of high supply at low prices will collapse the illegal trade in narcotics, at the same time the state can refer critical individuals to relevant support services, because when's the last time you seen your drug dealer take you to the first aid ward?

Marijuana and other naturalistic drug supplies are impossible to make illegal, nor does it warrant heavy attention from law enforcement because it's a small source of income and has to be sold in bulk if for profit. They are usually not affiliated with the heavy criminal underworld, and the large legal repercussions we have now mean that even first time offenders can feasible be locked up for possession of marijuana, the crime doesn't not fit with the consequences.

As per your statement about loss of people to drugs through legalization, that is really quite ridiculous, I mean we have alcohol as a major social killer in various ways, yet we understand that it's for consumption under controlled circumstances. Your argument makes it sound like when booze became legal back after the prohibition everyone was going to work pissed drunk. Holding a job down comes with responsibility, one of which is to be alert, you would lose that job instantly and won't be able to buy your legal supply so to say. This is besides the fact that any job these days that requires putting the lives of others at your disposal comes with mandatory drug tests.

This is the same thing we have seen happen with regards to the abolition of alcohol, we created an underworld under dubious moralistic judgments about what is good for society.

probably not just adrenaline. Car thieves need narcotics too.

And laws are just paper so it is pretty good paper at that level of' analysis.

It is an excellent tool to catch narcotics (illegal and prescription drug) traffickers. Even roving wiretaps are a pretty cool and wonderful thing unless you are a drug cartel or have run afoul of Karl Rove/Dick Cheney in some way.

The main problem right now with USA Patriot is that Bush keeps creating all of these 'secretive' organizations within the Department of Defense and Department of Justice and abuses the provisions of the Act by walling off any oversight mechanisms. Not to mention the fact that Bush routinely sidesteps legal obligations through his signing statements. Traditional Soviet statism at its worst.

30 September 1942- 28 February 1968
Harlem, New York, New York,
USA-Heroin Overdose

Used this song in the film, "This Boy's Life" with d' caprio, and "Pink Flamingos" scene where Divine hides meat between hers legs, at the market....


........Despite recording a strong album, his novelty appeal waned when his voice broke. By 1961, the teenager was a heroin addict and entered Manhattan General Hospital on a drug rehabilitation programme. Although he tried to reconstruct his career with the help of Dizzy Gillespie and even took dancing lessons and studied as a jazz drummer, his drug habit endured. In 1964, he was convicted of possessing narcotics and his finances were in a mess. His private life was equally chaotic and was punctuated by three marriages. In February 1968, he was discovered dead on the bathroom floor of his grandmother's New York apartment with a syringe by his side. The Teenager who never grew up was dead at the tragically young age of 25. His former group continued to record sporadically and in the 80s, surviving members Santiago and Merchant formed a new Teenagers and Pearl McKinnon took Lymon's part. They were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1993.


from.....http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Frankie-Lymon.html

Hilarious how SwampGirl told me shes so tired and is going to bed and all, and then I find her stealthy feeding her narcotic habit here

Industrial protectionism, DuPont lobbied the government to make Cannabis a Class 1 drug, a narcotic, in order to vilify by association hemp, and effect the transfer to polyester. In reality the THC levels in hemp are minute and have very little intoxicating effects. Genius isn't it?

Yay for dictating goverment policy to appease corporations!

I put this title because that's the name of the original show, I believe.

@choggie: I know it's a bit of a freakshow, but I thought it was interesting insight into a non-narcotic drug dealer's mind. It takes all kinds of people.

You think he's stoned? I didn't think film stars touched narcotics - Surely he's just really relaxed?
Congrats on the Gold Star farhad2000

Legalisation is never going to be the answer. The two biggest causes of death or illness due to narcotics are the two legal ones. Go figure out what that means if everything were legal. I also find it hard to believe that in the fiction 2015 only heroin and cocaine were still banned. There are other much more harmful drugs out there such as LSD.

Narcotic notes. Thank you for posting.