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#352
volbeast33 said:
The female worker at the dollar general near my house is tweaking bad most days when I am in there…..I’m a little surprised they overlook it but it is the dollar general store.
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When I used I was in the restaurant industry. Everyone in the restaurant industry is on coke. No one batted an eye. The job I have now, probably wouldn’t get away with it.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
When I used I was in the restaurant industry. Everyone in the restaurant industry is on coke. No one batted an eye. The job I have now, probably wouldn’t get away with it.
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yeah….. when I worked at Lowe’s when I went to college…. My manager would snort oxy’s on the lumber desk…. Our direct supervisor asked why I wasn’t flying around stacking would like the manager…. I told him bc I wasn’t high as a kite….. he said…. True. LOL
 
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A functional heroin user is a relative term I guess if they are alive and moving. Cocaine is a different story, I have had the rare distinction of trying it a few times and it’s quite the high. It doesn’t have the same effects on the body as heroin or meth. They are extremely taxing and difficult to break.
 
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landscapingvol said:
A functional heroin user is a relative term I guess if they are alive and moving. Cocaine is a different story, I have had the rare distinction of trying it a few times and it’s quite the high. It doesn’t have the same effects on the body as heroin or meth. They are extremely taxing and difficult to break.
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I snorted roxy’s. Which is basically just a fentanyl pill where I got it. I functioned worse on those, still made it work. I never worked harder than when I was a coke head though
 
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Also, watch out for a new opiate called etazene and all of its compounds. They were hitting the streets as I got out. It’s another Chinese one.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
Also, watch out for a new opiate called etazene and all of its compounds. They were hitting the streets as I got out. It’s another Chinese one.
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I will never understand why they don’t legalize marijuana for certain medical conditions. It works much better than opiates without all the crappy side effects. It worked better than morphine and dilaudid for her pain and increased her appetite
 
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Christian Lowe said:
Don’t know, but I’m willing to bet federal decriminalization would fix a lot of that.

My life wasn’t much better or worse on drugs. I was a functioning addict, but heroin is expensive. I quit mostly because of the cost and it wasn’t doing much for me anymore. Also this notion that everyone will do drugs if they’re legal is nonsense. People who say that are probably the ones who’d do drugs the second they became legal and project that feeling on someone else. I did cocaine with a preschool teacher at bars a lot. No one at her job knew the wiser.
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Would you send your kids to that preschool teacher?
 
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tim said:
What about the quality of life? You quit drugs because why exactly? Would you recommend drugs to your friends or kids? Do you want to live in a society where it’s perfectly acceptable? Would you knowingly hire or work or fight beside a heroin/crack addict? Would you let your kids go to a daycare or school in a society like this?
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It's perfectly acceptable to drink alcohol. Use caffeine.

Obviously the sheer fact that a substance is mind altering is not alone a reason to demonize it.

You dont raise quality of life by restricting nonviolent choice. It's the opposite.
 
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Chicago College Student, 20, is Killed by stray bullet that flew through subway car window on his way home from investment bank internship

A 20-year-old University of Chicago student was killed by a stray bullet while riding in a subway train on his way home from his prestigious summer internship at an investment firm in a downtown neighborhood.

Max Lewis, a rising junior at the university, was seated on a CTA Green Line train at around 6.30pm on July 1 when the bullet flew through a window and struck him in the back of the neck.

According to the description of a GoFundMe campaign, the train was stopped at the 51st Street/Washington Park station at the time of the shooting.

Lewis was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was taken off life support on the Fourth of July.

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Max Lewis, a rising junior at University of Chicago, was fatally shot in the neck by a stray bullet while seated on a CTA Green Line train on July 1. He was taken off life support on July 4

Chicago has experienced catastrophic levels of gun violence in recent months, with the holiday long weekend in the Windy City being marred by a string of shootings that left 100 people injured and 18 dead, among them Lewis.

Chicago college student, 20, is killed by stray bullet that flew through subway car window | Daily Mail Online
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Chicago College Student, 20, is Killed by stray bullet that flew through subway car window on his way home from investment bank internship

A 20-year-old University of Chicago student was killed by a stray bullet while riding in a subway train on his way home from his prestigious summer internship at an investment firm in a downtown neighborhood.

Max Lewis, a rising junior at the university, was seated on a CTA Green Line train at around 6.30pm on July 1 when the bullet flew through a window and struck him in the back of the neck.

According to the description of a GoFundMe campaign, the train was stopped at the 51st Street/Washington Park station at the time of the shooting.

Lewis was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was taken off life support on the Fourth of July.

45118045-9762319-Max_Lewis_a_rising_junior_at_University_of_Chicago_was_fatally_s-a-3_1625607748608.jpg

Max Lewis, a rising junior at University of Chicago, was fatally shot in the neck by a stray bullet while seated on a CTA Green Line train on July 1. He was taken off life support on July 4

Chicago has experienced catastrophic levels of gun violence in recent months, with the holiday long weekend in the Windy City being marred by a string of shootings that left 100 people injured and 18 dead, among them Lewis.

Chicago college student, 20, is killed by stray bullet that flew through subway car window | Daily Mail Online
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He's white, so its no big deal.
 
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LouderVol said:
It's perfectly acceptable to drink alcohol. Use caffeine.

Obviously the sheer fact that a substance is mind altering is not alone a reason to demonize it.

You dont raise quality of life by restricting nonviolent choice. It's the opposite.
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Drinking a beer or getting drunk is not the equivalent to using Meth, heroin, or fentanyl. The impact can be similar, agreed.
 
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landscapingvol said:
I will never understand why they don’t legalize marijuana for certain medical conditions. It works much better than opiates without all the crappy side effects. It worked better than morphine and dilaudid for her pain and increased her appetite
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They have in Illinois
 
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Orangeburst said:
104 shot and 19 dead this weekend. Congrats Lightfoot.
1600 this year.
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Competition for resources (theft), power (murder, threats of violence), and territory control.

Short term, you increase police presence and round up / incarcerate the criminals to get the streets safer.

The long term solution is access to jobs, tieing assistance to work, working with private groups to reinforce family units and heavily promote two parent households. No this is not code for "throw money at it". Don't come at me for something I'm not suggesting.

My question is what do you do between the short term and the long term to move things in the right direction?
 
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AshG said:
Competition for resources (theft), power (murder, threats of violence), and territory control.

Short term, you increase police presence and round up / incarcerate the criminals to get the streets safer.

The long term solution is access to jobs, tieing assistance to work, working with private groups to reinforce family units and heavily promote two parent households. No this is not code for "throw money at it". Don't come at me for something I'm not suggesting.

My question is what do you do between the short term and the long term to move things in the right direction?
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Start having honest conversations for one.
 
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talked to a cop who works in Rockford, IL (about 90 miles from Chicago) - his take is that most of this is gang stuff where one person will post something on social media (pic with money, guns or dissing someone from another gang) and the other gang(s) react for being "disrespected". there's no real command and control for the gangs and the higher ups are hands off so long as the money flows (unlike mob control). it's all adolescents
 
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