We're doomed. Society has become so dependent on 'authority' we don't even know how to get rid of our leftover dope. Or maybe we're too stoned to think and do for ourselves.
The war on drugs was waged over 40 years ago and as far as I can tell, nothing much has changed. If anything, it's gotten worse. How long must it go on before we realize it isn't working?
Today, one of the battles was fought in Athens County. They had one of those pill drop off sites. You know, where people drop off the meds they didn't take and turn them in to be properly disposed. I suppose it makes people feel better. Ahhhhhhh Get the bad drugs off the street.
If those bad drugs include old vitamins. Come on. You don't really think people are turning in their oxy do you? Heck no. That stuff was already ripped off by the dealer of the family.
So why do we need these little shows. They do the same thing with guns. Turn in your guns and we'll give you a $25 gift card. Sure. I'm going to bring in a perfectly good gun for 25 bucks. Nope. Don't think so. Those guns that get turned in are completely worthless. Just like the meds, they have zero street value. But it makes people feel better to think something is being done. It doesn't matter what that something is, just so it's something. The media gets a story they can sensationalize showing those bags of drugs and the sheriff looks like he's busy.
Evidently, it doesn't occur to people to go ahead and dispose of these leftover meds/vitamins on their own. Is that illegal now or something? And, why are they leftover anyway? Why didn't you take them? Or is it one of those you just had to ask your doctor about and he wrote the script even though it wasn't right for you? Isn't that what every other commercial says? "Ask your doctor if _____ is right for you".
Maybe there is a drug problem in this country. But it's really difficult to tell the kids to just say no to the illicit drugs when their parents are hooked on the prescription ones. It's difficult to tell the kids to say no to illicit drugs when the parents are getting the kid his own fist full of scripts.
At least today, they got all those nasty vitamins off the street. The street value had to be pretty high. $0?
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