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If the DEA feels it needs all this to find more opiate addicts, they could save time & money by walking the streets of San Francisco instead. The privacy impli
by 737min 6y ago
If the DEA feels it needs all this to find more opiate addicts, they could save time & money by walking the streets of San Francisco instead.
The privacy implications are horrifying.
- api 6y agoThe drug war is collapsing. There's going to be a crunch on social security and medicare soon as more boomers retire, so the budget vultures will be circling. The DEA will search frantically for a reason to exist, something they can bring to congress to justify their funding.
- gogopuppygogo 6y agoI’d throw a party when they are dissolved. Horrible abuses of our civil rights in the name of protecting us from drugs (something they have unequivocally failed to succeed at).
- the_only_law 6y agoAfter the recent ballots in many states decriminalizing various drugs, I saw a number of memes congratulating "drugs" on "winning the war on drugs".
- da_big_ghey 6y agoI saw a joke on that the other day: After hearing about Oregon's recent de-criminalization of hard drugs, a bunch of druggies were celebrating by doing cocaine in a public park. An officer walks up to them and says, "Is that a plastic straw?"
- gogopuppygogo 6y agoSan Francisco == California Let’s not give a pass to the rest of the state. They have sponsored drug addiction as a lifestyle and decriminalized their behavior.
- d_e_solomon 6y agoSure, let's go throw everyone in prison. Because that worked well. /s Instead we should be trying to get addicts into treatments, homeless into housing, and trying to improve the quality of life for citizens.
- pnw_hazor 6y agoStates have these registries in place already. This is just the next step. edit-to-add: but the state registries are not de-identified.