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> yet we don't hear talk on FOX about the horrors of the appalachian cartels bringing this garbage across the border. Perhaps you should do some research on th

> yet we don't hear talk on FOX about the horrors of the appalachian cartels bringing this garbage across the border. Perhaps you should do some research on the methamphetamine crisis. Plenty of hand-wringing over tweaker shake-and-bake operations and rural labs.

ajross 7y ago
Maybe hands were wrung, I won't dispute that. And yet not demands for public action like there were in the 80's about inner city drugs. No "war on meth" was ever declared. No huge increases in law enforcement funding arrived in the rural west. No steeper penalties for meth were ever passed that I'm aware of. No focus on three strikes legislation to "clean up Colorado". The media coverage was an illustrative example, the story is about decades of deeply unfair prosecution via law enforcement of what in other demographics is deemed a social ill. But agreed: hands were wrung about meth.
- mieseratte 7y ago
  > No "war on meth" was ever declared. No huge increases in law enforcement funding arrived in the rural west. Half of my family goes back to Appalachia, used to very several times a year. I can tell you anecdotally that there very much was there, though I doubt anyone would say "War on Meth" since there's already the "War on Drugs." Legislations, penalties, etc. increased in that neck of the woods. I've had junkies in my family (meth, heroin, oxy, etc.) in and out of jail most of my life. Hell, one of my buddies is an old meth cook. Man never graduated high school, but if you talk to him about the chemistry you'd think he was a university graduate. Hell, one time on my way to school we couldn't get out of the neighborhood because someone discovered a shake-and-bake setup and the police, (fire) HAZMAT trucks were blocking the entire road. Everyone had to call off work or school that day while they cleaned it up. I don't mean to be needlessly curt, but if you think there is something magical about the opi(ate|oid) crisis it is because you weren't well aware of preceding ones.

ajross 7y ago

Maybe hands were wrung, I won't dispute that. And yet not demands for public action like there were in the 80's about inner city drugs. No "war on meth" was ever declared. No huge increases in law enforcement funding arrived in the rural west. No steeper penalties for meth were ever passed that I'm aware of. No focus on three strikes legislation to "clean up Colorado". The media coverage was an illustrative example, the story is about decades of deeply unfair prosecution via law enforcement of what in other demographics is deemed a social ill. But agreed: hands were wrung about meth.

mieseratte 7y ago
> No "war on meth" was ever declared. No huge increases in law enforcement funding arrived in the rural west. Half of my family goes back to Appalachia, used to very several times a year. I can tell you anecdotally that there very much was there, though I doubt anyone would say "War on Meth" since there's already the "War on Drugs." Legislations, penalties, etc. increased in that neck of the woods. I've had junkies in my family (meth, heroin, oxy, etc.) in and out of jail most of my life. Hell, one of my buddies is an old meth cook. Man never graduated high school, but if you talk to him about the chemistry you'd think he was a university graduate. Hell, one time on my way to school we couldn't get out of the neighborhood because someone discovered a shake-and-bake setup and the police, (fire) HAZMAT trucks were blocking the entire road. Everyone had to call off work or school that day while they cleaned it up. I don't mean to be needlessly curt, but if you think there is something magical about the opi(ate|oid) crisis it is because you weren't well aware of preceding ones.