Phillip Seymour Hoffman dead

[Garm]

If you do the division using DEA numbers (amount imported and number of addicts), there are hundreds of millions of unaccounted-for doses of heroin.

What does this mean? Successful long term casual users. Millions of them. If you live in Baltimore, Philly, North Jersey, NYC, etc., you interact with more than a few of them every day and don't know it.

[Bob Wildes]

If you do the division using DEA numbers (amount imported and number of addicts), there are hundreds of millions of unaccounted-for doses of heroin.

What does this mean? Successful long term casual users. Millions of them. If you live in Baltimore, Philly, North Jersey, NYC, etc., you interact with more than a few of them every day and don't know it.

According to the governor of Vermont there are a shitload of them in his state.

[Garm]

If you do the division using DEA numbers (amount imported and number of addicts), there are hundreds of millions of unaccounted-for doses of heroin.

What does this mean? Successful long term casual users. Millions of them. If you live in Baltimore, Philly, North Jersey, NYC, etc., you interact with more than a few of them every day and don't know it.

According to the governor of Vermont there are a shitload of them in his state.

They're everywhere. Especially our prisons, a million or more, at $70k each per year, times a hundred to include the cops of all stripes that would have to get real jobs if drugs were legal. Multiplying is good, too. The crime is created by the law in most of those cases (buying, selling, holding, and paraphernalia). At ten bucks a pop, nobody's stealing anyone's TV set for dope. The laws create the huge profits, which creates the violence, which justifies the laws and the sentences, and the army of cops that man our police state, which leads us back to multiplication and mulling the result over at tax time.

Analysts should proceed from principles: Who owns your body? Who owns your life? Who should be able to tell you what you can do to yourself? I know what Washington, Jefferson, et al would have said. I also know why cocaine and heroin and marijuana were included with alcohol in the 19-teens (cause Negroes to rape white women, encourage Chinese immigration - literally). If you're in favor of zipperhead and spook lib, you should want all these laws repealed.