Calling folks users. It's been 20+ years since I've even seen any drugs, the illegal kind, anyways. I have beer etc in my home.

I can see when something is failing, I will say that. Our so called war on drugs is a complete and total failure.

I mean, alcohol is legal, so why aren't they all drunk in class?

The jurisdiction that makes the bust keeps the drug money they find. So, if Fayette wants the money the bust happens here. Personally, as long as they're bustin' the jerks, I'm fine with that.

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If you and I are always in agreement, one of us is likely armed and dangerous.

If you know, can you tell me what the regulations say about money and drugs confisticated by police officers?
What percentage of it is scammed off before being inventoried by whom?
I never knew that Fayette County or Fayetteville police could keep what they confisticate within their respective borders! Are you sure?
We must have bought a lot of helicopters recently for the Fayetteville police.
Who smokes up all the stuff they find?

Let me try a different approach.
Let's say that I am a high level pot dealer, selling hundreds of pounds. I sell you 10 pounds, you turn around and try to sell that to Fayette county. Fayette busts you and confiscates your drugs. Now, as a high-level dealer, do I really care where the demand for drugs came from? Do I care whether cops or users demanded the 10 pounds? No. I made the sale, I got paid. Now, as a top level dealer, I wouldn't care if all of my hundreds of pounds of sales went to cops. As long there is a demand, someone, in this case me, will bring in the drugs to meet that demand. As a top level dealer, the police activity, actually, will expand my business. I will, thanks to the cops, stock even more drugs; and, thanks to the higher prices created by those cops, I'll get richer than ever. In fact, thanks to your wonderful drug task forces, it's a wonderful time to get in to drug dealing. Add to this the thousands of young people who live in poverty with virtually no education and no hope of ever getting out, who look around themselves and see nothing but misery. We are failing our children at any chance for a life and then locking them up for jumping at the only chance they do see, when that chance is only created by our war against it.

I can't condone anyone selling pot, even if they are the bottom rung and won't stop any of the drug distribution when caught.
The big dogs who import the drugs, or rise it, never, I mean never sell any in public--they recruit desperate, ignornt, thugs to get caught for them. As you say, he made a sale anyway so it doesn;t bother him they got caught. He has a dozen more waiting to be sellers on the street.
Fayette County isn't stopping anything with this program!

Also, I will take some of that wonderful drug profit and invest into anti-drug campaigns. Yes, you would be surprised how much of the money that funds these narcotic units is actually donated by cartels. It's just good business.

I think maybe you are correct. We don't need those people here. Let them buy the drugs elsewhere.
Reminds me of building a house of ill repute just to be able to arrest the users.

The point is to get as many rapper-thug good for nothing druggies off of the streets of the metro area. What difference does it make in which county it they are arrested. The point is to get them off of the streets and in jail where they belong.

The point is, "We" shouldn't have to pay for Atlanta's problem. "We" have trouble keeping them from coming here in the first place, "We" shouldn't be inviting more down here and footing the bill to incarcerate and try them when they'll just be back "on the streets" soon after.

(I think I've reached my quotation mark quota for the day)

First, yeah I'm definitely in the Libertarian legalize it crowd, but also believe that luring the dealers into Fayette for busts is misguided. The same sort of holds true for luring the sex offender freaks who are outside of Fayette County.

Go after the existing crime already present....no need to "import" it in from elsewhere.

NUK

The dealers are already here. These busts are dealers that are already working our area where leads have been cultivated and an agent works in place of the 'usual' buyer. No one is going out to other areas and bringing them in to the county. Trust me, none of these guys had had to use mapquest to get here.

You start with the street user, build credibility with his buyer and on up the chain as far as you can go. Then you drop the hammer from the top down if you can. Sometimes this means letting the 'little fish' go long enough to get to the dealer's dealer. You smell what I am cooking here?

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at the trial the details of the bust. You certainly could be right.

I still wonder why a Fayette dealer would be buying drugs wholesale in Fayette, however. Fayette Co is not Miami, Savannah, Atlanta, etc where the large stashes of drugs like pot are arriving. Dealers sell to street-level users but are buying from "big" dealers that aren't far removed from the origin of the drugs themselves, and that's not Fayette except for perhaps the ring that got busted recently and some houses they had converted into major marijuana grow operations.

NUK

I'm sorry but I had to LOL at that one. Did you honestly use the term "druggies" in a serious sense?

Why do you think dealers disseminate their product in Fayette County? Do you think they are creating the demand? The people you're talking about are your neighbors, kids, employees, friends, et al. Who do you think can afford to have a drug habit? Someone with minimum-wage income? Peachtree City has always been and will continue to be a favorable destination for drugs. The sooner we legalize them the sooner we reduce the crime surrounding them and open our jails to people who need to be there.

it's a total waste of time.

Now if you want to see less crime, take the criminal element out of buying pot.

People could discipline their kids and raise them to be productive citizens.

Ok I went off the deep end with that idea.

Trying to teach folks that can't read and write to raise better kids, or make it legal to buy pot? You could have Marlboro Lights right beside the Marlboro Joints.

I say we have a generation gone, and I frankly don't want to keep them up in jail for selling something that in my opinion, should be legal.

Even drugs obey the law of supply and demand. For instance: when cops purchase drugs off the street, they inflate the demand for drugs. Even though they bust the ones they got it from and keep their money, the ones that those who got busted got it from, those at the top, still got paid for that supply. Whether the sales are going to users or to cops means nothing to those at the top of the supply end, either way they get paid the same.
An excellent example came from a small school a few years ago that, wanting to help, began to buy slaves out of the slave trade in order to give them their freedom. The government of the country in which they were doing this begged those at the school to stop. By buying those people they upped the demand and were actually causing more people to go into slavery. Many things done for altruistic motives have an opposite effect. 25 years into a drug war, trillions spent, and drugs are more prevalent, cheaper, more widely used than ever. I understand the motives for the drug war are altruistic, but the drug war is destroying children and families none-the-less.