Not pot specific but this one goes out to all the people who claim prohibition of drugs in general causes most of the social ills caused by drug use. These people have either never met a drug user or simply don’t care about the people, like children, who are forced to be in contact with them.
From ABC affiliate WWSB:
PUNTA GORDA, FL. – Charlotte County Sheriff’s Major Crimes detectives have arrested 34-year-old David Steven Weaver Jr. on a charge of Aggravated Child Abuse.
Weaver was arrested Mar. 25 by CCSO Narcotics detectives after they raided his home and found a Methamphetamine lab. The Department of Children and Families notified the CCSO that a urine test was conducted on Weaver’s 3-year-old son and it tested positive for Amphetamines, Opiates, and Ecstasy.
Narcotics detectives made an undercover meth purchase at Weaver’s home on Mar. 11. Then on Mar. 25 executed a search warrant for Weaver’s home on Alan Boulevard, and on Gewant Boulevard, both in the Charlottes Ranchettes area east of Punta Gorda. The meth lab was in a large garage building on the property at the rear of his home.
The DCF investigation revealed that Weaver had taken the child into the meth lab, where he manufactured Methamphetamines. MCU detectives met with the child’s mother who said on or about Feb. 15, Weaver took the boy into the garage and called her to come get their son because he couldn’t get any work done. The mother went to the garage and when she opened the door, smelled a very strong odor of Ammonia emitting from the area where the boy was located. The mother took the child out into fresh air and away from the garage. She said later that night the child was coughing.
So decriminalizing drug use would stop this how? And when the state starts to have to care for more addicts who aren’t being forced into treatment so they can stay addicted until they die how does that not effect the rest of us taxpayers?
h/t Trench
“MCU detectives met with the child’s mother who said on or about Feb. 15, Weaver took the boy into the garage and called her to come get their son because he couldn’t get any work done.”
OK, I *have* to assume that the mother doesn’t actually live with the father, and the boy was visiting him or something, because if she did live which him, how the hell does she not know he’s got a meth lab in his garage???
Yeah. From what I’ve read Meth Labs are not easy to hide, especially collecting the ingredients and “cooking” it.
Victimless crime file is a misleading name. What it should really be called is the child abuse report. No matter what drugs are involved, the stories are child abuse. Whether drugs are illegal or not would not matter, it’s still child abuse. Yes I know, it’s an anti drug blog.
Tange2, the title is meant to be misleading, insofar as the fact that so many people actually *believe* these things to be “victimless crimes”. He’s calling them on their bullshit, basically. It’s a very fitting title.