How the war on drugs creates violence

Re:How the war on drugs creates violence by mindslight on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:27PM (#10427957)

You know the cops, they got a network for the toxic rock!

Nearly a hundred comments and this seems to be the only reference to this major facet of the drug "war". It's amazing how short-term and steered "our" attention span is.

And of course now we've got a new instance of the familiar pattern - a Heroin epidemic a decade after beginning colonization of Afghanistan...

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Re:How the war on drugs creates violence by lm______ on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:05PM (#10430190)

And it happens at all levels of dealing too, not just the CIA flying in bricks... I know people who have been robbed by the cops for drugs.

One friend got off with only a warning for having 10 ounces of high-grade weed, which were then "confiscated". Another, who has been selling cocaine since his mid-teens, begrudgingly gives out 8-balls to a few cops that recognize his cars and pull him over at any opportunity.

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