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true_notes Donating Member (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 05:48 PM
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What is Bush's Stance on "Domestic" Drugs?
I'm a bit uneducated in *'s drug policie(s). I'm wondering what his actions on drugs such as Methamphetamines and so called designer drugs, which are very popular in rural America.

I know it's a horrible situation to return home to find that 3 friends are mercilessly addicted to a drug that can be made @ home in a pseudo-lab.


Chimpy Mccokefiend has a new drug of choice...It doesn't trace on his urinanalyisis!
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 06:02 PM
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1. He preferred to take the foreign-produced ones
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 06:07 PM
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2. W liked coke and weed but..
will send anyone to prison using those. It's ok for him to have used them because he is a Silverspoon Sociopath.
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true_notes Donating Member (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 06:08 PM
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3. It seems
that he is leaving it up to the local/state governments to control these drugs. There has to be federal activism on meth. It is getting out of control in the heartland, and I recently read an article on how it is spreading into the cities of America. But this admin doesn't care. Apparently no one else in our government does either.
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 06:11 PM
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4. Well, yes, but they are aggressively

fighting Medical Marijuana.

Saving the ill from the ravages of pain relief.

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true_notes Donating Member (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 06:14 PM
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5. And
Defoliating cocoa-rich countries, but leaving the Afghans alone with their poppies and such.
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gizmo1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 06:40 PM
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6. more please.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 06:42 PM
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7. well if his past is indicative of his future than I'd say he's for them.
actually the only drug i've ever heard him mention are steroids.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 06:55 PM
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8. Bush sands on a pinnacle of shit
And from his great putrid mountain, he can smell the festering death
of the millions, he and his, shit on. His drug is domestic repression,
enslavement, and preemtive war crimes, something that is in liquid
supply all over DC.

Try the truth with your 3 friends. THEY decided to take the drugs they
take. They have the power to decide to stop as well. The uglyness they
see in the world can be changed by fighting the good fight, one day
at a time, and following their heart. (s). Drug addiction is not the
drug. Its like blaming bullets for gun crime... silly silly. It is
the mind that pulls the trigger. It is the mind that lights the fire,
that inhales the elixor and wishes to escape this life in to an early
death. Talk to the mind, and ignore the symptom. Help your friends
leave their surroundings to set up in a town, with a job and some
hopeful future.

Drugs addiction is accepting that there is no future, no life worth
living, and bush, the ultimate addict, is making political life just
that, but the hard question is in the hearts of your friends... get
in their face, YELL if you have to... ARE YOU READY TO DIE NOW? WHY
ARE YOU KILLING YOURSELF? FUCK YOU FOR KILLING MY GOOD FRIEND, and
then pray for them, right in front of them, as if they have died...
and then walk out never turning back.

It is the gift you can give your friends to trust their integrity,
to stop or kill themselves as they see fit. It is the true empowerment
of a loving friend.
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true_notes Donating Member (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-05 07:14 PM
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9. The True Empowerment of a Friend
Left me with a Broke nose in March when I confronted J about his addiction. Crazed on Meth, he rampaged me. I finally contained him and watched over him through the night to make sure he made it fine. It IS THE PERSON'S CHOICE TO DO DRUGS, BUT THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE PROACTIVE IF THEY ARE GOING TO PUSH AGENDAS! Rural America is loosing great great minds to drugs, and it is because of corruption from the lowest level, all the way to the president of the united states. Self preservation is a taught trait, and America is in Special Ed.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-05 03:47 AM
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10. why not be a drugs addict
Edited on Sun May-08-05 03:48 AM by sweetheart
I can't particularly blame anyone for being an addict, for wanting to
be comfortably desensitized. It seems rather a natural reaction when
the world is so screwed up. Were the country not run by prude moralists,
and cannabis legallized, surely most drugs addicts could get by with
a legal weed and ditch the more destructive addictions. I've met
several people over the years who've done just that, migrating from
destructive drinking, heroin and cocaine to cannabis.

And as i don't view cannabis as a "drug" but rather a natural plant,
much more natural than the crap they put in cigarettes, perhaps the
spirit of the plant can help some folks who are hard on the rough edge
of life.

Rural life offers poverty, no jobs, no money to travel to get away from
it.... and the puke solution is to become a jesus freak, nutter xtian.
That is their universal solution to everything, so they can control
people. Death will cure them of their sick addiction to wickedness,
but can the rest of us afford the years of waiting it will take to see
them healed.

Bummer about your mates. Its a problem in rural areas, in the UK as
well. When there is no opportunity in life, no love and no hope, why
not just get fried.... i really can't fault them at all... may divine
grace bless you and your friends... life can be such a tragedy.

peace,
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-05 04:06 AM
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11. So far
the more money the government has thrown into the drug war, the more successful the enterprise has become. Since it started in the seventies, drugs have become MORE plentiful and more accessible to the average citizen, even in the smallest American towns, than anyone could ever have expected.

The CIA has been linked with heroin from the Golden Triangle in Asia and cocaine from S. America. The drug war allows the police and federal agents to suspend certain civil rights and target minorities, enables them to confiscate assets without benefit of trial, and supports the penal industry.

The original Bush sent troops into S. America to go after cocaine production. They destroyed crops in Bolivia and refineries in Peru, though that was backwards. Most of the crops were grown in Peru and most of the refineries were in Bolivia. Accident? Probably not.

The drug war spreads drugs by making it highly lucrative to distribute them. Its biggest victims are from the lowest classes and are all too often from one of the already embattled minorities. Only about fifteen percent of those doing time for drugs are caucasian.

The War On (Some)Drugs is a farce, plain and simple. They can't afford to fight meth...it's too pervasive, too easily manufactured, and too lucrative for those who cook and distribute the stuff. The epidemic can only get worse at this point, unless the U.S. government seriously re-evaluates its priorities.

Simple as that.
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