Glastonbury Teens Arrested On Drug Charges

It seems like this task force has been responsible for taking down a lot of drugs in the Manchester area...

But is it really legal to just go and search somebodys car in their driveway just because somebody says there "may" be a drug deal going on?

I don't think so, unless the drugs are in plain sight!

Rob wrote:

It seems like this task force has been responsible for taking down a lot of drugs in the Manchester area...
But is it really legal to just go and search somebodys car in their driveway just because somebody says there "may" be a drug deal going on?

Rob did you note the word "surveillance"?? They don't just randomly go search a car in a driveway because John Doe called and said there would be drugs there. There's that thing called probable cause.

http://www.flexyourrights.org/

surveillance? What did they see?

Is that a duffel bag of laundry or a duffel bag of drugs?

Is that a shopping bag of weed or just some groceries?

I mean I guess if they are dumb enough to be handing out large quantities of drugs in plain sight, its a different story.

Another regional task force discovery of teenagers with less than a pound of weed! What an awesome use of tax dollars! I feel so much safer now!

Get them while there young, today a half pound tomorrow a half ton. As part of there sentance they should make them eat the weed.

fcuk the pigs... one of the kids was a penny pusher.. he never moved more then an ounce and hes getting in trouble for driving the other dickhead around.. it just aint right. tax dollars well spent? i dont think so

Kathleen M Dickson wrote:

Imagine if pot were legal. We could fire 3/4 of all State employees.

Hopefully you were stone when you wrote this sentence.

daaaaaaamn

GLL wrote:

http://www.flexyourrights.org/

Interesting link

http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm

Damn I went to school with both these kids. To be honest I'm not really surprised.

One of these kids friends just got arrested and has a 20,000 dollar bond for drug charges.

Teenagers in the illegal drug business is a natural and inevitable consequence of drug prohibition laws. The same phenomena was common during alcohol prohibition: kids were employed in various aspects of the production and distribution of contraband liquor, as well as drinking more than before prohibition.

Prohibition is an abdication of the government's duty to regulate the market. Instead the lawmakers have pushed the non-medical drug market (with the huge exception of alcohol and tobacco) into the hands of organized crime at the top and any opportunistic kid at the bottom, funding organized crime and corruption of government and finance, meanwhile the distributors have zero incentive to check the age or drug license of their customers or retailers.

Create a legally regulated non-medical drug market for licensed adults and the kid dealers and customers will virtually disappear as licensed adult consumers will be getting their drugs from licensed retailers with strong incentive to not sell to kids. But then all the hypocrisy of the alcohol-and-tobacco-exempted drug war and its politicians would have to end. Not to mention the dive in alcohol and Xanax sales that the Busch and pharmy lobbyists guard against.

Here's an account of how prohibition brings kids INTO the drug rade rather than keeping them out.

http://www.paulhager.org/libertarian/drugwar....

History amply demonstrates that, although alcohol really is a dangerous drug, alcohol prohibition did much more harm than good. There is general agreement among scholars who have studied the effects of alcohol prohibition that it was directly responsible for the rise of organized crime in the U.S.(The subsequent activities of organized crime have been used to justify greater and greater federal involvement in law enforcement.) Homicide rates soared during alcohol prohibition as criminal gangs fought over territory. More and more young people became involved in illegal activities because it was advantageous for bootleggers to use young people as "mules" (that is, people who carry or otherwise deliver contraband). This resulted in young people being killed in shoot-outs.

It was the corruption of youth and the kids being killed in gang wars that finally turned the public against alcohol prohibition, which ended in 1933. Shortly after the end of alcohol prohibition, homicide rates plummeted -- within a few years they had dropped 40%. If there was a benefit observed with alcohol prohibition it was that fewer people used the drug. This benefit was illusory, however. The amount of alcohol consumed actually increased because the economics of prohibition decreed that booze should be more potent. Thus, adverse health effects associated with alcohol use actually went up during prohibition.

While it is true that opiates, cocaine, marijuana, and hallucinogens are different from alcohol in terms of their psychopharmacology, all of the evidence is that their continued prohibition is having exactly the same effect on society today as alcohol prohibition had 70-odd years ago. For example, economist Milton Friedman, looking at the effect the criminal black market in drugs is having on the homicide rate estimates that it is responsible for at least 10,000 homicides each year. Criminologist Alfred Blumstein, past president of the American Society of Criminology (1991-1992), notes that the criminal black market in crack cocaine is a major component of the increase in homicides committed by youths ages 15-24 that occurred in the last half of the 1980s. The fact that many of the victims were also young underscores the tragedy of drug prohibition.

High SchoolParent?
Justice Seeker?
No comments on this story about two white kids in suburbia selling drugs?
I'm genuinely shocked. You two had me convinced that you were unbiased.
I'll go check for you 2 on the other threads about Hartford kids busted for drugs.

Anthony wrote:

High SchoolParent?
Justice Seeker?
No comments on this story about two white kids in suburbia selling drugs?
I'm genuinely shocked. You two had me convinced that you were unbiased.
I'll go check for you 2 on the other threads about Hartford kids busted for drugs.

The problem is Anthony ...you don't read my comments well at all. In many of my comments I've stated over and over....I DO realize there is crime everywhere, in all cities. I've never denied that at all. It happens on a daily basis in Hartford (and Bridgeport, New Haven, etc). I dont even think New Haven and Bridgeport report as much crime has Hartford does. I dont deny crime everywhere Anthony, thats unrealistic. I'm appalled at the veryyyyyyy high crime wave in the pit city. That is truly amazing to me how someone can deny that. Even you. You continuously throw the the occasional "look at the kids in Glasonbury or Avon". So? How about the 4-5 violent crimes that happen every day and night in Hartford. Exactly WHY do you ignore those statistics?????? My day is going extremely well today...hope yours is too :)

Anthony wrote:

High SchoolParent?
Justice Seeker?
No comments on this story about two white kids in suburbia selling drugs?
I'm genuinely shocked. You two had me convinced that you were unbiased.
I'll go check for you 2 on the other threads about Hartford kids busted for drugs.

You are funny Anthony, you just bounce around and around......and in fact, you are just as bad as you "claim" me to be. You accuse me of "picking on Hartford skum", and only singling out Hartford. Which OK...I probably do and so what? It's my right :) However, you just have become almost obsessive with my posts and anyone who selects Hartford as their focal point? My goodness Anthony....thats not healthy. I wont change my commenting tactics....so get used to them :) Nothing you can ever say will change my viewpoints, or those of the many mannnnyyyyyyy others that you dont seem to notice :) What can I say....I call it as I see it :)

Anthony wrote:

High SchoolParent?
Justice Seeker?
No comments on this story about two white kids in suburbia selling drugs?
I'm genuinely shocked. You two had me convinced that you were unbiased.
I'll go check for you 2 on the other threads about Hartford kids busted for drugs.

You'll ALWAYS find a comment from me on the pit city threads. Happy hunting :)

High School Parent wrote:

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The problem is Anthony ...you don't read my comments well at all. In many of my comments I've stated over and over....I DO realize there is crime everywhere, in all cities. I've never denied that at all. It happens on a daily basis in Hartford (and Bridgeport, New Haven, etc). I dont even think New Haven and Bridgeport report as much crime has Hartford does. I dont deny crime everywhere Anthony, thats unrealistic. I'm appalled at the veryyyyyyy high crime wave in the pit city. That is truly amazing to me how someone can deny that. Even you. You continuously throw the the occasional "look at the kids in Glasonbury or Avon". So? How about the 4-5 violent crimes that happen every day and night in Hartford. Exactly WHY do you ignore those statistics?????? My day is going extremely well today...hope yours is too :)

But why do you think that Hartford is the only place where crime occurs?