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DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 07:06 AM Feb 2017

Romano: From the shadow of pill mills, a new drug crisis emerges in Tampa Bay

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/romano-from-the-shadow-of-pill-mills-a-new-drug-crisis-emerges-in-tampa-bay/2314432

This is a sad example on how we are wasting our efforts when we try to eliminate cannabis, yet we let medical companies make a mint as they cause problems selling their opiates legally, then make money making Fentayl. You think the drug cartels are just growing Fentanyl in the fields? This came about because many, including our current governor, made money allowing Florida to become the opiate capital of the nation, where these pain clinics have plates as far away as Alaska and Kentucky, where huge amounts of pills are put into pick up trucks.

and if you want to see how bad it has gotten, here is a documentary from the late, lamented current tv.

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