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TexasBushwhacker

(21,126 posts)
33. Desperate people do desperate things
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 10:19 PM
Mar 2023

Many soldiers in Vietnam became heroin addicts, but when they returned home to their loved ones and a supportive environment, most found it quite easy to quit. We will NEVER "win" the drug war by going after suppliers. It's a lucrative business, and you can lock one gang up, but others will take their place. Improve people's lives. Provide education, affordable housing and good jobs. People have to have HOPE.

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Please find another source other than that conservative turdfest Washington Examiner AZLD4Candidate Mar 2023 #1
OK then. Mexico gets to bomb US gun factories sanatanadharma Mar 2023 #2
+1. . . Republicons are soooooo stupid, thinking if you can't take rights away, kill someone. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2023 #3
Mexico on various occasions has used military troops to attack Cartel strongholds, yet the cartels Ford_Prefect Mar 2023 #4
What's more, Army units sent to 'fight the cartels' were often hired by the cartels themselves peppertree Mar 2023 #23
Following the Russian playbook I see. pazzyanne Mar 2023 #5
The only thing that will stop this crap is reducing DEMAND here in the US. oldsoftie Mar 2023 #6
That's why I think most drugs should be legal. Young people especially are drawn to the forbidden. Lonestarblue Mar 2023 #10
I agree 100% about making all drugs legal. Aristus Mar 2023 #22
I agree with you as far as you go... slightlv Mar 2023 #24
Excellent points--and certainly worthwhile. Lonestarblue Mar 2023 #25
Comey, can you get republicans to stop using and smuggling fentanyl? keithbvadu2 Mar 2023 #16
Yet the meth labs in white rural America are a-ok? Crowman2009 Mar 2023 #7
Made In America? ret5hd Mar 2023 #8
Exactly what I was thinking Farmer-Rick Mar 2023 #21
Comer of KY has a lot of nerve. Meth use is wild in his home state. Odd that in rural KY... machoneman Mar 2023 #9
I wonder if Rep. James Comer (Batshit Crazy-KY) knows just how nuts this sounds? Botany Mar 2023 #11
Yeah, Israeli logic to shoot people up Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2023 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Mar 2023 #27
Obsession? I can't think how many months, many, since I last posted about Israel. Obsession? Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2023 #28
January 25th Mosby Mar 2023 #29
Obsession. About 45 days and 300 posts ago. It must be an obsession Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2023 #30
You purposely demonize Israelis and hold them to different standards. Mosby Mar 2023 #31
??? I think you are the one obsessed. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2023 #32
Holy F!!! The outright stupidity is mind blowing. This the banana republic for you. Nt TeamProg Mar 2023 #12
Don Jr. must have been in a panic over that. twodogsbarking Mar 2023 #14
We need to clean up the meth prob in the U.S. Marthe48 Mar 2023 #15
Never understood it. They eve put up billboards showing before & after pics of meth users oldsoftie Mar 2023 #17
I'm with you Marthe48 Mar 2023 #19
Desperate people do desperate things TexasBushwhacker Mar 2023 #33
Attack Mexico is the new GOP talking point, build the wall is worn out. sarcasmo Mar 2023 #18
Those republicans sure do like war. republianmushroom Mar 2023 #20
How to say you've never been in the military without saying you've never been in the military jmowreader Mar 2023 #26
Most labs are small shacks in the wilderness. NutmegYankee Mar 2023 #34
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