Drug dealing scum motherfuckers

[Stinky The Clown]

In a small urban garden owned by a Catholic elementary school is a small grotto with a small statue of the Virgin Mary. There was a park bench in front of it.

It has been there for as long as anyone can remember. Maybe even longer.

Now the drug thugs are using it. They hide their shit in the grotto. Parts of the bench have been broken and used as weapons.

St Francis in Baltimore is where this tale is taking place.

Baltimore has the highest usage of heroin in the US. I'm no fan of overly tough drug laws and think the War on Drugs is stupid. But this shit just gets to me. The grotto is visible form all the classrooms on that side of the school.

Little kids go to that school.

Man ...... :cry:

[Systematic Chaos]

1. All the government would have to do is set up shop in an old store front...

...and sell really good heroin, in measured doses, to the addicts for $3 per hit. They could also have, I dunno, maybe half a dozen beds set up for people who seriously want to quit, with nurses and a full-time doctor standing by to help with the withdrawal symptoms. This program would probably cost - what - maybe a couple million per year to run, max?

But, who am I kidding? We need that couple million to throw those horrible junkies in prison so they can rot! And then we need to keep the war going!! Why would we ever want to adopt any of those Communist Scandanavian models here in good old Amurikkka, anyway??

:grr::nuke::grr:

[RedCappedBandit]

2. The war on drugs is to blame..

[mduffy31]

3. I have a friend who works at Johns Hopkins.

We were talking about the HBO show, "The Wire" which I am a huge fan of. She was telling me that the sad thing is its pretty much the truth.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Sad to say, but your friend is right ....... it IS pretty much the truth.

[Warpy]

4. All they need to do is end the drug war.

It's over. We lost.

Sell drugs out of stores. No more little punks vandalizing statues and park benches to beat the crap out of each other over territory. Just good, clean, quality controlled junk from a place with a Formica counter and fluorescent lighting, taxes to pay for rehab for people who run into trouble and want to get off the merry go round.

Legislating morality never works. Never has, never will.

[Outraged As Usual]

5. Prohibition is hell ain't it?

All of the problems of drugs can be laid on the doorstep of the weak sister congressmen who ignore common sense and science in favor of sound bites about ' protecting kids' while the only people checking ID's for illegal drugs are the dealers!! Maybe if every church pew and corner of every city school were full of needles and junkies some bureaucrat would wake up and see the solution: Give the people what they want and need at a very low price and known quality and watch the problems go away. Money from taxation would fund on demand treatment for those few who cannot control their habits.

Maybe if every school kid could see the results of Prohibition early in life they will refuse to honor that failed legacy when they get older and in a position to change the madness....you cannot stop people from getting their fix, be it liquor or heroin, and so the only way to go is regulation. Period.

[REP]

7. Must be why they call it Charm City

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

8. Heroin bad, Meth WORSE

At least junkies get their stash, shoot it, and go to la-la land. Meth tweakers go out, break into a house or business, sell some stolen stuff, get their fix, snort it, smoke it, or shoot it, which amps them up to go out and tear metal from highway railings, bridges, firehose connections on the sides of skyscrapers, etc. Then they sell the metal to some asshole scrapmetal dealer, and go out to find another fix. OR, they cook up a batch in their own bathtub, with poisonous fumes not only damaging the brains of their poor kids in the next room, but you and your neighbors too.

And all the while, they are turning themselves into the living dead: