This reminded me about year 2000 or so when we seemingly did not have any (relatively) serious problems and so our tax money was spent on stuff like this
Beware the DEA kids. They knew about all the oxy all along. They knew about all the hydro. They knew every single major shipment going to Florida, Kentucky and wherever else this whole time. They knew about the opioid epidemic and they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.
they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.
I don’t have trouble believing this could be the case, but can you link some evidence?
So I’m out of the business now and quota guidelines have changed to a quarterly system (?) so i could be talking out my ass.
Rubber stamped might be over stating but shipment reports from registered manufacturers are reported, audited and archived for a long time. Records of shipments are constantly monitored between the distribution centers. How much active ingredient was also explicitly decided by the DEA iirc. So if a manufacturer needed to increase it’s output of a schedule 2 narcotic by a significant amount it must request the additional quota and it then goes through an approval process.
To go a step further and show just how significant quota is let me give you an example:
You have a shipment of product ready to go. Certificates of Exceptions/Assay/whatever paperwork you need to release. It’s been transitioned to the distribution center. You then find something that impacts that material and it needs to come back to the manufacturing (gmp) area. Once that comes back into the facility and then leaves again it will count against your quota. If 100kg of active leaves twice it’s 200kg as far as the DEA is concerned and you will have to destroy the left over 100kg you were provided and did not use.
Goddamned right, our government threw its own citizens under the bus so pharmaceutical companies could make another billion. Then imprisoned the people who got addicted.
It’s gonna happen!
It’s Gonna Happen!
IT’S GONNA HAPPEN!
Um, guys, it turned out to be kind of the opposite of what we expected.
-looking for stories about how marijuana use has negatively impacted your life
“I-I just kept eating. Just kept going. A whole family sized bag of doritos. OH THE HORROR!!”
That’s not even a weed thing, that’s ultra processed food designed from day 1 to be as addictive as possible…
Which is totally cool and totally legal
Not like it’s a plant humans have used for thousands of years or something
Doritos come from a plant? Far out, man.
Well yeah, they’re mostly corn.
Peaches come from a can.
I like marijuana and am in favor of legalizing it but lets not pretend its completely harmless. For example, tenagers should not be using it since it will interfere with their developing brains.
I do agree that this campaign by the DEA could focus on more destructive drugs, like alcohol for example. Not to mention the opiods…
Wow i sifted through a lot to get to someone with this opinion.
I smoke often but totally agree with you. The research is only just beginning now that the ability to study marijuana use is becoming more and more practical.
Exactly. The demonization of Marijuana by the USA has really pushed back valuable research all over the world, I hope with time we learn more about this plant.
Alcohol is worse for you than weed. But alcohol is far more harmful for you than many people realise. Being not as bad as Alcohol does not make it good or harmless. However, after many years of very overblown propaganda about the threat of weed the pendulum has swung the other way and no many people falsely believe all talk of the damage weed can do to be propaganda. Here’s a good video explaining the topic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRaI0ZeAf8&t=661s&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt–InaNutshell
Hey kids, remember, Ted Nugent never smoked pot.
Um. So, there’s that.
Yeah, he just literally shit his pants to dodge the draft, and then wrote a song about how much he likes banging 13 year old girls! Both Trump approved activities! He’s good to go!
Remember all those idiots who thought this administration was actually going to make good on their promise to legalize it?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Cool, I’ll have something to giggle at while I’m stoned!
Anti-DEA day for people on the right side of history
I once got so high that I stayed home from school and masturbated all day long.
I was severely chafed the next day…but man, what a day…
What a day indeed, and now they are a knight, see? That’s a respectable job.
If you smoke enough marijuana you can hear all the complicated stuff drummer Jeff Porcaro isn’t playing on the song Africa by Toto.
Next, these people are going to start going after heavy metal and rap music again.
Heavy Metal and Rap Music? They hurdled right over and landed on Any Amount of Dancing and Suffragettes.
Can’t wait for the epic memes promoting weed
zack morris told me theres no hope with dope right before he narced on a nice guy for responsibly doing weed in his own house and then drove drunk and lied about it to his dad though
🎶Zack Morris is trash🎶
im from the future.
it did not work out like they hoped
I believe you.
I believe you.
This seems perfectly reasonable. I’m sure the people wearing DARE shirts will take this seriously and help out.
Those bootlickers will believe anything, I bet you could convince them water was dangerous if you made them think the DEA said it.
You must not be American. Adults wearing DARE shirts are not bootlickers for the DEA. They wear it ironically.
Dihydrogen monoxide is a chemical so dangerous, it has both an acidic and an alkaline effect. It’s completely destructive to the body. In large doses, it can kill a person in minutes. Smaller doses are claimed to be safe by the monoxide user community, but the truth is, it’s a death sentence. Everyone who uses dies.
Women who use it while pregnant have babies that are already chemically dependant on it.
Your casual lawbreaking will be used against you.
This is exactly what had me scared straight for the longest time. It’s not the drug, it’s the system that punishes use of the drug that’s the real threat.
The fact that ex-convicts (people that have paid their debt to society) aren’t a protected class in the hiring process is beyond me. At least insofar as non-violent offenses go, there’s no cause to throw someone away like this. This goes especially considering the current state of political affairs around here.
“Corrective Rape” as a trope within the American prison system is probably the darkest part of this cartoon.
