JP/Roslindale coke bust going down
By adamg - 7/9/12 - 9:09 am
Federal and local law-enforcement officials gather this afternoon to announce arrests of alleged members of "a multi-million dollar cocaine trafficking syndicate," operating in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale and some suburbs (one of them possibly Canton), the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Arraignments are already scheduled for today in Boston Municipal Court. Of possible interest - the involvement in the investigation of the state Department of Correction, which might indicate prisoner participation in the ring.
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Yet they still can't do
Yet they still can't do anything about the winos at Forest Hills.
But of course JPs most
But of course JPs most pressing issues are protesting WholeFoods, legalizing chicken coops, and dismantling public transit to facilitate more double parking.
Damn those chickens!
Damn those chickens!
how's the weather over there
how's the weather over there in 2011?
I love how the first two
I love how the first two comments here essentially say they're not focusing enough on a local level (winos at Forest Hills) and they're too focused on a local level (protesting Wholefoods). Gee, ya think people enjoy being critical?
We have a winner!
We have a winner!
and the other 20
are now jumping for joy, since prices are just going to go up with scarcity.
Let's just set up
Let's just set up concentration camps for the homeless drunks and druggies out beyond 495 and starve them to death. Out of sight, out of mind. We want to make J.P. and The City as sanitized as possible [with just a little edge, like leaving graffiti up] for yupps, tourists, and omnipresent suburban college girls and boys.
And it's not a good idea to crack down too much on the dealers because their best customers are guess who? Drug trafficking brings a lot of $ INTO the city from the surrounding suburban area. Not to mention many small 'independent' stores like hair salons and bodegas are financed with laundered drug $.
Best way to stop drug use
is to make drug use uncool.
Best way to make something uncool is to get government involved.
Legalize and tax the shit out of it, and make sure people know it's the government doing so. People will take up cycling, or other hobbies instead.
Hey, let's make exercise
Hey, let's make exercise illegal! Obesity epidemic = cured.
you joke
but this is F'in America, so I'm not so sure it wouldn't work...
Truth be told we already have a great example to control and lessen drug use; cigarettes. Promote a social stigma at the same time that the government gets involved with taxing and regulating the commerce (horribly uncool).
You're still free to use them, but you're paying for the negative externalities in social and physical capital, which tends to lessen use.
Decrease the demand
The only way to stop production and distribution of illegal drugs is to stop the demand for the illegal drugs. Heavy fines and jail time harsh enough to deter users from doing it again, along with social programs for addicts, should decrease the demand and should bring the illegal drugs prices down, making selling drugs less profitable. Now with drugs less profitable and the fines and the possibility of time for drug distributors, should deter most people from selling, reducing the production of illegal drugs because there is no demand and no one to sell it.
We tried that
It didn't work.
Instead we have the most % of our population in jail behind just a few fascists countries, and we taxpayers are spending an arm and a leg to do so.
We spend more to house each inmate than we do on a child's education.
Anyways, go look up the numbers, and go look up game theory. Our holier than thou attitude is doing nothing but bankrupting out piggyback and imprisoning our citizens; for something that is 100% a public health issue.
yeah, that worked so well with booze
Sigh.
Yeah
all that organized crime, violence and murder caused by pushing illegal swill is still around, ain't it? The mob still rules the cities and towns.
The reality is black markets fund criminal organizations, because the cost to benefit ratio becomes too lucrative to pass up. Take away the large margins, and allow real markets to regulate them, and all of a sudden it's out of their hands.
Any public heath issues caused are then much less of a problem then the big issues the black market causes, and can easily be dealt with AS public health issues.
A holier and morally than though position might make you feel all good inside, but it's not helping and costing us taxpayers a small fortune.
Worked very well with booze!
When's the last time you heard of the Sam Adams and Harpoon distributors getting into a gunfight over territory?
Legalizing drugs would turn the current criminals into the equivalent of microbrewers, distributors, and package store owners. None of whom are any threat to society
But but but
they ARE a threat to knickers being all bunched up. I mean, won't you think of the children Ron!?
They still sell coke? I would
They still sell coke? I would think meth would be a lot more profitable, at least according to that TV show Breaking Bad that glorifies illegal drug production and distribution.
I suppose ...
... that you thought that Trainspotting glorified heroin use, too?
Really.