Fentanyl is coming over the border. Such a cluster. I care about human beings but damn it we can't save everyone. Shut the border down. Don't let anyone in just because they say "asylum."
Very tragic news for the Ehlinger family
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Drugs have been coming across the border longer than I have been alive. Do you really think the US will now all of a sudden say yeah let’s stop it. Nah they haven’t and won’t.
Root cause are the drug companies and the Drs pushing them due to $$$ kickback. Athletes aren’t the only kids dying. Kids that have parents that take prescription drugs get them all the time. What player did we have on our squad that was busted for selling pills in high school? Thought he was a TE.
Now youth are listening to this new rap that talks about pill popping. It’s a huge issue but it’s been one for awhile. I was told that The Woodlands has a big problem with prescription drug use.
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You think the Woodlands is bad?
My dude, Westlake, Lake Travis, Alamo Heights, Highland park--- anywhere you've got serious OLD money, you've got pill popping kids-- and a sh!t ton of them. Some kid offered my 13 year old nephew a freaking Xanax at his damn middle school last week. I had to tell his stupid ass that if someone offers you that sh!t and shows it to you, just start swinging until the cops show up. Scream and holler about how you don't do drugs and this guy offered them to you. But knock that MFers head off. Nobody will ever offer you drugs again.
Oh I know all the affluent schools are bad I was just saying I heard about The Woodlands. I live here in Houston but my sister in law lives on LT and we know about the issues as well.
So the answer is to do nothing? Because right now we are basically doing nothing.
We didn't learn our lesson during prohibition and we aren't learning our lesson now.
Prohibition in the 20s gave us Al Capone, corrupt politicians and the Kennedy dynasty-- Joe Kennedy got rich selling Canadian whisky to folks in Massachusetts. Then he spit out a bunch of kids names John, Bobby and Ted. We are still living with that crap today.
We have, once again, made a small amount of ass holes super rich--- cartel leaders--- who in turn have bribed a sh!t ton of US elected officials. If you think the reason the left and the right won't pass border laws is because of immigration, you're dumber than a box of rocks. They won't pass that sh!t because of the DRUG TRADE. They haven't figured out how to control the legal Marijuana trade here in the US, and that's why it's still illegal on the federal level. As soon as those cock suckered in DC can control the growers, packers, rollers and distribution here in the US, Marijuana will become legalized.
You are right, but I wish we'd have federal govt leadership with balls to wage a real war on the epicenter of the drug cartels with military force that we've used trying to save foreign countries. Defend America's borders and within.
And... as unrealistic as what I said, but also if the drug had no buyer interested anymore, it'd maybe lessen in existence. Wishful, but a fairytale wish.
funny how we could take down the cartels when they were in Colombia......and how impotent we are now. One would almost get the idea that the cartels simply wanted to move closer to their markets and had the politicians in line to do just that and made it look like we were really accomplishing something......hey!, wait a minute.....
Back in 2003, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, at the recommendation of the pain specialists, mandated pain control standards. Threatening physicians and nurses for not treating all patients' requests for pain relief. My recovery nurses were required to use a subjective pain score and dose accordingly. When you wake up a post surgical patient if he hurts, the answer is almost always "yes." Patient goes back to sleep before the nurse can obtain the medicine. Once the people were told that pain was optional, that it can be treated without risk, everybody wants it gone. Trouble is that it's not true, people then die from the respiratory consequences. That's why the "opioid epidemic" is largely limited to the USA.
Haven’t we had the war on drugs? You can only stop it when people stop wanting it. Supply and demand. Americans are huge consumers of drugs.
Nothing? We've spent trillions on the war on drugs. Marijuana arrests are still something like half of ALL arrests. Asset forfeiture has exceeded "criminal" theft for years. I believe that full legalization of narcotics would reduce the overdose rate. Fentanyl is a poor choice for a recreational narcotic. The onset is dangerously fast. That's what killed George Floyd. The half life is too short. But it's cheap and easy to smuggle. Addicts were better off with morphine and heroin. I know a little about this: I did cardiac anesthesia for 5 years. We gave massive doses of fentanyl (like a milligram or two) to patients for cardiac surgery. But we breathed for them too.
Should’ve just paid the cartel to keep their drugs out of the US. And anyone transporting for them that try and sneak it in across the border they can deal with. Maybe then we’d be more successful.
I'm talking more about overall border control. The explosion of migrants flooding the border since Joe took office is alarming and unsustainable.
We've has 1.7 million illegal crossings over the last year, three times the previous 9 years and the highest since 1960. This is directly related to Bidens reversal of Trumps policies. No bueno.
Ok then we are talking two different things. Yes I agree the border is an issue. I was referring to what this thread was about which was drugs. Speaking of drugs coming into the US has anyone watched the documentary on Bad Sports about Randy Lanier? That dude brought in so much MJ via cargo ships.
On a related note I can't imagine how illegal drugs aren't coming over in increased numbers because of the strain imposed on border control. I definitely am not implying it's never been a problem before Biden.
They probably are but I don’t think they’re coming in mass shipments. Those are by vehicle or boats which usually get inspected but some how some get across. 😉 I wonder how!?
I crossed the border into Tijuana last week and came back across the same way by foot. Our border agents are pretty passive to Americans. I mean my bags were scanned but not me.
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