Pubdate: Thu, 21 May 2009
Source: Medicine Hat News (CN AB)
Copyright: 2009 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.medicinehatnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1833
Author: Randy Young

WHO ARE THESE DIMWITTED DRUG BUYERS?

For me, hard drugs and their illegal distribution and sale in 
Medicine Hat is a conundrum. Who is the buyer? As a retired 
manufacturing executive, I understand all aspects of a "normal 
business" including how extremely careful one must be if 
manufacturing and marketing a legitimate food or drug product.

Before they hit their market, illegal hard drugs pass through a chain 
of handlers, all strictly profit motivated, with no regard for 
hygiene or product safety. We're talking about a product that is 
manufactured on the sneak, distributed on the sneak, sold on the 
sneak, bought on the sneak and used on the sneak. The end users 
willingly and unbelievably buy an expensive product that is to be 
taken into their bodies with no idea of where the stuff has been.

Who is buying this dirty, contaminated trash?

Is the buyer the same person who, in the supermarket, demands all 
pharmaceuticals have tight unbroken seals applied at the health 
inspected factory then later, from some street person, buys life 
altering hallucinogens, in themselves very dangerous, but 
astonishingly caring nothing about total lack of product standards, 
safety or hygiene? They have absolutely no idea what in fact they 
have bought and are about to put into their bodies.

What happens? Does the drug dealer cast a spell that turns normally 
sane people into zombies? Hey, maybe that's it - that would certainly 
explain a lot.

Alright, so there's a market for these dirty drugs but who are the 
buying zombies? Are there that many really stupid folks in the Hat? 
Aren't they informed? Do friends recruit and train them? Wow, some friends!

I can't for the life of me understand how our retired farmer, 
pensioner-infested village financially supports this kind of sleazy, 
underground, slime product business. And that is my conundrum: Who 
are the many hundreds of dimwitted buyers that are keeping the business afloat?

Randy Young

Medicine Hat
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