Atlanta’s highways and the drug trade (Jackson, Cleveland: 2014, house)

[billl]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

Countries where there is prohibition on drugs have higher crime.

Well, yes, of course. Because using and possessing certain drugs is itself a crime. Make that not a crime and, suddenly, there's less crime.

[billl]

Originally Posted by atltechdude

2. weed being legal does not make it easy to instantly kill thousands of people, as heavy weapons do

Unless you are high while operating heavy equipment in the vicinity of thousands of people.

[cittic10]

Originally Posted by oldschoolChevy

Legalizing drugs also means no one to work in the chain gangs which means no more free (slave) labor.
Legalizing drugs means the private prison industry will most likely go under over night.
Legalizing drugs means police will not have anything to do
Legalizing drugs means the govt. will actually have to help people who really have addiction problems instead of just throwing them away to be forgotten in a hole somewhere.
Legalizing drugs means that the govt. will actually have to eat crow and admit not just defeat but the fact that it was wrong about something in the first place.
Legalizing drugs also will mean a lot more Black and Latino males on the streets, a lot more.


With that said the people who pull the strings want none of the above to go down, so it wont happen. Not in my lifetime anyway

That's another reason why in reply number 10, I said... "I'm for decriminalizing posession, consumption and growing your own but... I'm against legalizing the sale of it.

People can just grow their own and it would put an end to the cartels in a hurry- my opinion."

If selling it was still illegal, the profiteers from the war on drugs and all the local governments that get their rocks off by busting drug dealers can still do that.

[FlyiMetro]

Originally Posted by oldschoolChevy

Crack is still very much the drug of choice in the inner city of Atlanta. Meth isn't really a factor in the inner city, you find Meth mostly in suburban and rural areas. Crack will never go all the way away. A crackhead who has been hitting a straight shooter for the past 20 years isn't going to just switch to a different drug like that.

But does it sell as much as it did in it hay day is what I'm saying, I've known many dudes back in florida who used to sell, but many of them do not now. Either they wised up or they sell pills & weed now, basicially what I'm asking or saying is percentage wise it seems cracks sells less now then it did when I was in middle school.

[FlyiMetro]

Originally Posted by oldschoolChevy

Very true, most of the drugs are in stash houses in quiet subdivisions in the suburbs. Little do OTP'ers know, as much as they complain about the BS in the city, all the while they could be living next door to 10 million worth of dope with a small arsenal of weapons to match. I know people who are involved in that life and when it is re-up time they go to places like Dunwoody, Norcross and Lawrenceville, not to the locales in the city which you see on the news all the time. Lots of transactions in Hospital and Hotel parking garages in suburban areas, not on ghetto street corners in the inner city. If OTP'ers only knew the real truth.





Legalizing drugs also means no one to work in the chain gangs which means no more free (slave) labor.
Legalizing drugs means the private prison industry will most likely go under over night.
Legalizing drugs means police will not have anything to do
Legalizing drugs means the govt. will actually have to help people who really have addiction problems instead of just throwing them away to be forgotten in a hole somewhere.
Legalizing drugs means that the govt. will actually have to eat crow and admit not just defeat but the fact that it was wrong about something in the first place.
Legalizing drugs also will mean a lot more Black and Latino males on the streets, a lot more.


With that said the people who pull the strings want none of the above to go down, so it wont happen. Not in my lifetime anyway

Uggh!! In my rick ross voice....one of the best post I've see on here. 21 guns.

[billl]

Originally Posted by oldschoolChevy

Legalizing drugs also means no one to work in the chain gangs which means no more free (slave) labor.
Legalizing drugs means the private prison industry will most likely go under over night.

You mean no more prison overcrowding? Putting 4 inmates in a cell designed for 2?

Legalizing drugs means police will not have anything to do

You mean police forces won't be understaffed, tight on budget, and stretched thin anymore?

With that said the people who pull the strings want none of the above to go down, so it wont happen. Not in my lifetime anyway

Yeah, you are absolutely right. Governments certainly wouldn't want that!

[researchnerd]

Originally Posted by atltechdude

Another invalid comparison.

1. heavy weapons don't really have any legitimate uses for civilians

Originally Posted by MattCW

Neither does marijuana

Tell that to my father, who used it to relieve his radiation therapy symptoms when he was dying from brain cancer in 1970.

Tell that to my 74-year-old mother, who uses it to relieve her chemotherapy symptoms from Stage IV cancer.

Tell that to my sister, who uses it to relieve migraines and insomnia from a chronic illness.

Tell that to millions of people who use it to relieve stress, much like other folks use alcohol or tobacco.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by researchnerd

Tell that to millions of people who use it to relieve stress, much like other folks use alcohol or tobacco.

The thing I have never understood is why alcohol and tobacco are okay but pot is not.

Alcohol and tobacco are far more deadly and costly to both individuals and society.

[oldschoolChevy]

Originally Posted by FlyiMetro

But does it sell as much as it did in it hay day is what I'm saying, I've known many dudes back in florida who used to sell, but many of them do not now. Either they wised up or they sell pills & weed now, basicially what I'm asking or saying is percentage wise it seems cracks sells less now then it did when I was in middle school.

You're right. Ex pills, Molly, Codiene syrup, and Scrips have become a bigger factor too. And then also with high grade weed going for upwards of $3500 a pound, all those have put a dent in the number of people who sell crack in the inner city . The fact that Meth has not really made it in to the inner city has surprised me actually, with it being cheap to make I thought that maybe it would creep in, but it really hasnt. Its here and there, but no where near like how you see in suburban and rural areas.

[Onthemove2014]

Originally Posted by oldschoolChevy

You're right. Ex pills, Molly, Codiene syrup, and Scrips have become a bigger factor too. And then also with high grade weed going for upwards of $3500 a pound, all those have put a dent in the number of people who sell crack in the inner city . The fact that Meth has not really made it in to the inner city has surprised me actually, with it being cheap to make I thought that maybe it would creep in, but it really hasnt. Its here and there, but no where near like how you see in suburban and rural areas.

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