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- zuiquan, on 06/13/2009, -6/+161What better cover than pretending to be anti-drug? It's like sneaking up on a steak while wearing your "proud to be a militant vegan" t-shirt.
- PhillyMJS, on 06/13/2009, -7/+138I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning... smells like bacon.
No, wait! That IS bacon! Breakfast is ready, gotta go! - DangerCollie, on 06/13/2009, -4/+101You'd think someone who worked with druggies all day would have better connections.
- ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -5/+88I accidentally methamphetamine.
- robertisaar, on 06/13/2009, -6/+88:FACEPALM:
- doublefelix, on 06/13/2009, -5/+65Maybe that was his thing; selling fake drugs to keep people clean and support his foundation. Admittedly, that's a reach. Though it is no surprise that the police state of California has found a way to squeeze felonies even out of "make believe" drugs.
- teamr, on 06/13/2009, -3/+57He was selling fake drugs to teach kids a lesson while using their money would fund a new book. It's a brilliant new strategy in the war on drugs.
- inactive, on 06/13/2009, -2/+49Bacon? Hey everyone, PhillyMJS's got bacon! I hope you brought enough for everyone.
- enthreeoh, on 06/13/2009, -3/+47Do as I say, not as I do.
- cfuse, on 06/13/2009, -4/+47You'd think someone who worked with cops all day would have better connections. Fixed.
- zyklon, on 06/13/2009, -1/+35The whole thing?
- kerunt, on 06/13/2009, -3/+33Right-click, save-as Hypocrite.
- inactive, on 06/13/2009, -3/+29FREEDOM
My Anti-Gov. - mrsteveman1, on 06/13/2009, -2/+27I don't think the steak is going to run away....
- ripple123, on 06/13/2009, -3/+28THE IRONY IT BURNS MY EYES
- jgzman, on 06/13/2009, -0/+24This is the internet. There is no statement so stupid that someone on the internet does not consider it sacred truth.
- nismerf, on 06/13/2009, -1/+23You know. I am not one FOR people using drugs or whatever, but it seems to me, the "War on Drugs" gives them more value than they should have, causing people to kill, steal, and become corrupted. Then we need more money to hire more people to fight this battle. I bet drugs would be devalued and a lot of this crime will disappear when there is no more war on drugs. Most people want what you cant have, if you can have it they are like... meh.
- emotecontrol, on 06/13/2009, -0/+21Bacon is my anti-drug. At least it was. I discovered that bacon's a pretty harsh smoke even if you use a bong.
- randyspriggs, on 06/13/2009, -2/+22Play him off Keyboard Cat !
- thelastbushman, on 06/13/2009, -2/+18What an ***** ..... for selling fake drugs. The nerve!
- jmones, on 06/13/2009, -1/+17Even hypocrites gotta earn a living
- charlie6969, on 06/13/2009, -1/+17Sigh. Take the profit out of drugs, already. Please!
- faskill, on 06/13/2009, -6/+22Anyone else think, "Good!". All these people advocating morality and legality and taking from us everything are the biggest hypocrites. They want more for them and less for us and when these stories break, I am pleased. When you get to read about senators with prostitutes, drugs, underage children, extorted money and the like, that really makes my day. When you see advocates of groups like MAAD getting arrested for drunk driving, that makes my day.
- zambuka, on 06/13/2009, -1/+16Does it see into the head?
Into the heart?
Does it see into me clearly or darkly?
I hope clearly, because I can't any longer. I see only murk inside and out. - BillE3, on 06/13/2009, -2/+17In the 1800's the drug store was just that a drug store. All of the above you mentioned were readily available (or course except meth, since it is a designer drug) to the public over the counter. We did not have an entire population addicted. Alcohol was the predominate problem intoxicant as it still is. Prohibiting it was a failure, as it prohibiting all of the others. Those that want it will get it, you can not stop them.
- emotecontrol, on 06/13/2009, -1/+15Yes. 99% of the problem with those drugs is the black market. Kill the black market and then help addicts to get off the drugs if they want to with free therapy. If they don't want to quit, just give them what they need and they'll leave the rest of us alone.
In general, people do not want to be addicted to harmful substances. If we had appropriate drug education instead of the hysterical blather we currently teach to young people, they'd be able to make more sensible decisions, instead of thinking that they're just being lied to. Without a black market encouraging people to start using drugs, fewer would. The profit motive is the reason for a hell of a lot of new users.
I'm not saying you should be able to get crack down at the store next to the cigarettes. You should at least have to speak to a pharmacist first, maybe get a prescription. Make it difficult to start using it, but easy to get it if you need it so that there's no reason for you to support criminal gangs by buying drugs from them.
The Taliban gets billions (with a b) each year from the Afghani opium trade. If we want to win against them, we should be growing our own damn poppies and flooding the market with opiates to the point where there's no profit at all to producing opiate drugs. Use the political clout of the U.S. to force other countries to legalize too, so that the international black market collapses, since there are no black-market drug buyers. If the opiates coming in from the U.S. are cleaner, safer, and cheaper, why buy Taliban smack? Cut off the terrorists' cash flow at the source by making their product worthless. - TheMachine1, on 06/13/2009, -0/+14http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-drug-sting,0 ...
"Inside it was filled with rock salt and antihistamines." - VitriolAndAngst, on 06/13/2009, -3/+17If you mean "a brilliant new way to waste people's money on a failed war on drugs that has sent Millions to prison, costed billions, and resulted in thousands of lives ruined in the crossfire."
I can't wait for the next clever strategy in this decades long fiasco. - TheNyquilKid, on 06/13/2009, -1/+15Lying is their new strategy? Sounds an awful lot like the old strategy.
- jeffiek, on 06/13/2009, -1/+14Only to the rational.
Welcome to the minority. - crackedlogic, on 06/13/2009, -3/+16what does the scanner see?
- StickWST, on 06/13/2009, -1/+14Still, heroin addiction is a public health issue, and instead of jailing users we should have clinical sources for clean heroin and sterile injection rigs. Practice harm reduction while working to clean them of the habit.
- Bulletbillx, on 06/13/2009, -2/+14but the guy who's plate it's on might take it and run.
- PeppermintPig, on 06/13/2009, -5/+17Taste of your own medicine, *****.
- Frankyfan3, on 06/13/2009, -0/+11ew
- m3arvk, on 06/13/2009, -3/+14FTA:
"Farris was arraigned Friday on charges of selling a substance that he alleged was drugs. He is being held on $106,500 bail and could not be reached for comment."
So if I sell girl scout cookies and say they're cocaine I'm committing a felony? Doesn't this seem ***** up? - TheNyquilKid, on 06/13/2009, -1/+11I'm willing to bet that will be used as his defense though. Either that or the "doing reasearch" defense.
/Possibly the chewbacca defense. - TomK88, on 06/13/2009, -0/+9Are you kidding me? It has nothing to do with the legal aspect. It's economics.
- StickWST, on 06/13/2009, -2/+10TomK88, that's partly true because obviously selling bunk stuff is cheaper than a real product.But if you really want drug pushing to be your profession, you would be setting yourself up for disaster by doing that. You completely erase the chances for returning customers, unless you're selling to complete idiots of course.
Either way this isn't even relevant to the article : ) - Frankyfan3, on 06/13/2009, -1/+9He'll soon learn a hard truth :
It's harder to get over a conviction than an addiction.
(And getting over an addiction is really hard!) - Atomic1fire, on 06/13/2009, -0/+8http://bacolicio.us/http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Foun ...
digg, with more bacon. - darrellcskinner, on 06/13/2009, -4/+12Why do people sell fake drugs? Sure your all like 'hell yeah, I'm making money', your still going to get arrested if caught with them (and I'm sure those who sell fake ***** think theyre fine and carry around said 'drugs' more often). I would think someone like this would be aware of the Analogue Act.
- ammundsen, on 06/13/2009, -0/+7Forfeiture law is another fuel for this fire. The rich drug dealers make the state richer when their assets are seized.
- emotecontrol, on 06/13/2009, -1/+8Or, if we want to be sane, and not blame our problems on vengeful deities, we might note that the reason that many drugs are addictive is precisely because they are poisons.
Take cocaine, for example. Cocaine binds to dopamine receptors, which produces the pleasurable effect of the drug. But at the same time this tends to harm the receptors. These receptors are crucial to reward feedback in the brain, and so when not actually high on cocaine, a habitual user is constantly being given the opposite of reward by the brain, which is expecting a higher level of dopamine binding than it is able to detect. By administering cocaine--which can provide the required level of dopamine receptor stimulation--this negative effect goes away, which provides relief to the user and simultaneously rewards use, while doing further damage in a kind of downward spiral...which is why it is addictive.
This is completely mechanical, and no supernatural explanation is required to show that the mechanism of addiction is the same as the mechanism of damage. Nicotine addiction functions in a similar manner. It does damage that causes discomfort that can only be relieved by more application of the damaging agent.
I'll say it again: nobody wants to be addicted to harmful substances. It is unfortunately the case that pleasurable drugs are often harmful because the mechanism by which they provide pleasure is also the mechanism by which they cause harm. Unfortunately, not everyone understands what they're getting into when they start taking these drugs. This is largely due, I think, to our reluctance to provide the public with full factual information about drugs. Instead, we provide anti-drug propaganda designed with the assumption that people are incapable of making rational decisions about their health and well-being.
Furthermore, it is wrong to punish people for becoming addicted to a pleasurable substance. The notion that wanting pleasure without consequences is "wanting something for nothing" reveals a negative attitude: pleasure is something suspect or immoral and should always be balanced by pain or other negative consequences. That attitude is ridiculous.
On top of that, it is wrong to punish people for becoming addicted any further than the addiction is already punishing them. If anything, as good people, we should want to help them to stop being tortured by their addictions. A good first step is to provide them with the chemical on which they are dependent, to alleviate the problem in the short term. The second step should be to provide them with help to quit the drug, in order to alleviate the problem in the long term. - inactive, on 06/13/2009, -0/+7And of those customers who do return, a percentage of them may very well be paying you with bullets the next time around.
- luckydeck, on 06/13/2009, -3/+10Celia Hodes?
- SkillzThatKillz, on 06/13/2009, -3/+10wait a minute - he never actually gave the undercover officer drugs (they were fake). Why the hell should it be illegal to sell "alleged drugs"? Drugs are illegal because they are bad, addictive, blah, blah. It seems pretty clear to me at least that an increase in the probability of getting fake drugs would decrease their demand and actually serve as a deterrent to those considering making a purchase - especially to the casual user. In fact, the casual user would probably be way less deterred by this fact than any fear of actually getting caught.
- CivicTV, on 08/14/2009, -1/+7Dugg for PKD
- jcaino, on 06/13/2009, -1/+7Hey, the first one is free!
- jitterbits, on 06/13/2009, -1/+7It doesn't make me sad because they are preying on people's vulnerability with their actions and words. They act as though it's only weak will that makes someone do drugs or have casual sex (or whatever), when the reasons are vast and varied. If they are humiliated, it is because of their own myopic vision of why people do things and the things that they do. It is often a result of their own false dichotomies that makes it negative in the first place, or at least heavily endorse its negativity.
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