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The answer is easy; leave medicine up to the doctors, not the politicians. These break-ins concern me, as they do all of us, because many of our days out on the water leaves our vehicles unattended, with much of our gear vulnerable to theft, by, as stated before, by tweaker/crack heads. Meth has been rampant across our country for decades, and it especially hits areas hard that are poor, uneducated and with little else to do. These areas do coincide with areas that our beloved steelhead like to spawn through. Meth is extremely physically addicting, and will “make” people do things that they normally would not, like steal. Whatever you feel the punishment should be, fine; whether it is cutting off of hands, single bullet through multiple people, chain-gang, jail time… your call. But these will all be reactionary, not preventative. I personally like the idea of electro-shock car alarms.
After befriending, and staying with locals who live on the Klamath, they described how things changed, economically and socially, once the logging industry left, without a replacement of work. The medicinal plant has and always will be there, and before Meth moved in, they had virtually zero crime. The gateway drug has more to do with lack of education and becoming disenfranchised. The plant is non physically addictive, and since it is very plentiful in Northern Ca, breaking into car to buy something that is basically free in the area, seems to be pretty dumb.
The original anti marijuana laws were passed in Texas to arrest the Mexicans. It is currently illegal due to pharmaceutical companies, (i.e Dow industries), who lobby from K Street to keep it illegal. Why you ask? Because companies like Dow want you to buy their drugs. My step mother had colon cancer, and as she was going through chemo, the pills that did not work as well to counter the ill effects cost $60.00 a piece. This was about 10 yrs ago… but you can do the math. The Hippocratic Oath has to do with ethics, not laws written by racists:
“I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.” And “Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief”
It sounds to me like they are doing their jobs, in spite of…
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