Federal, state agencies spend $30,000 on meth summit

[davidinalameda]

http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2005042728/

Taxpayers are spending roughly $10,000 a day for a conference in which citizens fighting methamphetamine addiction are urged to "understand and build on individual and organizational assets" and "evaluate long-term outcomes and short-term interventions."

Organizers estimate the overall cost for the West Virginia Summit on Methamphetamine is about $30,000.

Much of the money goes to the services and staff of facilitator James Copple, a national consultant who is helping participants to outline and rank possible ways to fight methamphetamine's affects on society.

[leveymg]

1. Most of that was the bar tab for the attendees.

:beer:

[davidinalameda]

2. probably so

knowing these guys

[MountainLaurel]

3. Which is amusing

Considering the topic of the conference.

Kids in WV drinking themselves to death, or blowing their buddy's head off while drunk, or running their car into a tree with their girlfriend at 3 am on a school night: OK.

Kids in WV doing "hard" drugs: Baaaaad.

[davidinalameda]

4. but the state makes money from alcohol

it doesn't make any money from meth

[MountainLaurel]

5. Ding, ding, ding

It's all about the money.

Somewhat OT, but I remember overhearing a conversation a friend of mine was having with a WVU administrator about the problem of drunks doing stupid shit at Mountaineer football games. This was around the time that some shithead NOT in the student section threw something onto the field and got us a big ol' penalty at a vital point in the game. My friend was pointing out that the university had no right to say jack shit about drinking at football games until Budweiser was no longer the athletic program's biggest sponsor. The administrator could only nod and say, "I realize that."

Frickin' hypocrites.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. That $30,000 would probably not come close to paying for the...

Coke the Bush family has snorted over the years!