Woman gets jail for cocaine smuggling

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

At least liquor companies have a) some form of quality control. Can't legally sell it to kids and don't and aren't pretty much designed to be immediately and highly addictive, and frankly when not used heavily are not near as addictive and damaging. But drugs like the hard drugs that pretty much force people to take them daily or more and eventually force you to take them just to feel somewhat functional are far more dangerous.



Drug dealers that sell killer drugs like the current batches of drugs that are killing people outright are the worst scumbags on the planet and should be tossed off of cliffs.

Legalizing drugs like coke and crack and the other hard drugs that do massive mental and physical harm is outright stupid.

Dude, think about what you're writing. Do you think liquor companies have quality control out of the goodness of their hearts? Would they still have it if booze was illegal? Look at the gangsters who were prominent during prohibition and tell me they were somehow a better class of people than someone like El Chapo.

Cocaine and heroin aren't designed to be highly addictive anymore than tobacco and alcohol are. That's just silliness.

You clearly have some kind of double-standard when it comes to booze vs. hard drugs that isn't really based on evidence or reason and that's fine, but just be intellectually honest about it.

You could legalize crack and heroin tomorrow, lace every batch with fentanyl and sell it at 7-11 and it wouldn't even come close to touching the death and misery inflicted on society by alcohol.

[OMG!WTF!]

Originally Posted by rubecube

You could legalize crack and heroin tomorrow, lace every batch with fentanyl and sell it at 7-11 and it wouldn't even come close to touching the death and misery inflicted on society by alcohol.

Dude, think about what you're writing.

[Northendzone]

I would assume that if drugs like cocaine were ever legalized a company like acme products would sell it in a retail market and it would go thru a quality control process. To me the only potential gain out of legalizing drugs lie, this would be putting the drug dealers out of business.

To me legalizing hard drugs like this is way more than I want the government to do; however, at it very core is cocaine really that much different than liquor? Both can be addictive. Both can ruin lives.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

Dude, think about what you're writing.

Something that's backed up by evidence? In 2013, 3.1 million Canadians drank enough alcohol to be at risk for immediate harm, while 4.4 million drank enough to be at risk for chronic health effects. Cocaine and heroin use will never touch those numbers.

[OMG!WTF!]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Something that's backed up by evidence? In 2013, 3.1 million Canadians drank enough alcohol to be at risk for immediate harm, while 4.4 million drank enough to be at risk for chronic health effects. Cocaine and heroin use will never touch those numbers.

Unless, like you said, coke and heroin are laced with fentanyl and sold at 7-11, thus changing absolutely everything about the way people consume it. Your evidence is based on a 2010 British study that suggested alcohol is worse than those two hard drugs in particular. It's bogus info and needs to not be spread about anymore.

[monkeyman]

So what exactly is the logic behind legalizing something, known to be bad just because we already have something bad legalized? Isn't that like arguing we might as well legalize automatic machine guns since Rifles and Shotguns kill more people in Canada every year?
As for the argument that it'll push out the criminals. If criminals are anything, it's resourceful and highly adaptive, much more so than big governments. you won't eliminate crime, you'll just push them to something else, something harder, more dangerous, more addictive, more destructive.

[Zulu29]

Originally Posted by rubecube

You could legalize crack and heroin tomorrow, lace every batch with fentanyl and sell it at 7-11 and it wouldn't even come close to touching the death and misery inflicted on society by alcohol.

This is disingenuous to say the least. If you drink a can of Budweiser, you will not overdose and die. If you use any recreational drug (yes there is even fentanyl laced marihuana showing up now) you are playing Russian roulette. BC is on pace to have more fentanyl related deaths in the next six months than all of last year. Just last week 6 people overdosed and died within hours of each other in Abbotsford.

I’m not saying alcohol doesn’t have long term societal impact, but to essentially downplay the severity of legalizing crack and heroin is farcical.

[Mister Yamoto]

The only way to settle this is to do our own study.

[icecube]

Fentanyl laced marijuana eh? My bull#### detector is going off hard right now.

[nik-]

There's fentanyl laced fake tattoos being handed out to children now.

[stang]

So what name did she use for her previous career? Asking for a friend

[Zulu29]

Originally Posted by icecube

Fentanyl laced marijuana eh? My bull#### detector is going off hard right now.

Well, you’re entitled to your opinion, I know this for fact...so there’s that.

[mikephoen]

Originally Posted by Zulu29

Well, you’re entitled to your opinion, I know this for fact...so there’s that.

https://www.snopes.com/fentanyl-laced-marijuana-rise/

[Zulu29]

Originally Posted by mikephoen

https://www.snopes.com/fentanyl-laced-marijuana-rise/

Well, I’ll take a report from a scientists work at a forensic laboratory with qualitative and quantative analysis over a news article anyway. But that’s just me.

[Poster]

Originally Posted by monkeyman

So what exactly is the logic behind legalizing something, known to be bad just because we already have something bad legalized? Isn't that like arguing we might as well legalize automatic machine guns since Rifles and Shotguns kill more people in Canada every year?
As for the argument that it'll push out the criminals. If criminals are anything, it's resourceful and highly adaptive, much more so than big governments. you won't eliminate crime, you'll just push them to something else, something harder, more dangerous, more addictive, more destructive.

The logic is to take the profit and quality control out of the hands of organized crime.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by icecube

Fentanyl laced marijuana eh? My bull#### detector is going off hard right now.

That's not your bull#### detector!

[icecube]

Originally Posted by Zulu29

Well, I’ll take a report from a scientists work at a forensic laboratory with qualitative and quantative analysis over a news article anyway. But that’s just me.

[Zulu29]

Originally Posted by icecube

Keep on rockin in the free world.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Zulu29

Well, I’ll take a report from a scientists work at a forensic laboratory with qualitative and quantative analysis over a news article anyway. But that’s just me.

Surely you can provide some evidence of this... any at all....

[Weitz]

I’m more curious how you would even lace weed with fentynal.