Prescription Drug Arrest

<p> </p><p>Yancey County authorities are calling it one of their biggest prescription drug arrests this summer.  A man they suspect as one of the top dealers in the area was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon. Authorities arrested 24-year-old Christopher Elliott at his home on Satin Wood Drive in Burnsville.  Law enforcement believe Christopher and his older brother, James, traveled to South Carolina to get Oxycodone pills and then returned to the area to sell them.  They tell us the brothers have nearly a hundred clients. Christopher Elliot's arrest was part of "Operation Slinger."  The round up effort was launched back in June.  The Burnsville police department teamed up with the Yancey County Sheriff'f office to get prescription drugs of the streets. So far, 40 dealers have been arrested or charged in the operation.</p>

Prescription Drug Arrest

  Yancey County authorities are calling it one of their biggest prescription drug arrests this summer.  A man they suspect as one of the top...

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if arresting people for drugs was a sign of success in The War on Drugs, then I guess our government has won.

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #eeeeee;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">The United States arrests a lot of people on drug charges. The answer to the failure of The War on Drugs is always spend more money and arrest more people.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">In fact, if arresting people for drugs was a sign of success in The War on Drugs, then I guess our government has won. Here is a press release from <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #003333;" href="http://leap.cc/"><strong>Law Enforcement Against Prohibition</strong></a> on a new report from the FBI on just how many people are arrested for drugs in this country.</p><blockquote style="padding-left: 10px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #666666; color: #666666;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">New FBI Numbers Reveal Failure of “War on Drugs”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #003333;" title="420times_000002362202XSmall" rel="shadowbox[sbpost-15188];player=img;" href="http://the420times.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/420times_000002362202XSmall.jpg"><img alt="420times 000002362202XSmall 150x150 FBI: One Drug Arrest Every 19 Seconds In U.S." class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15191" height="150" src="http://the420times.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/420times_000002362202XSmall-150x150.jpg" style="float: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; clear: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 1px; border: 1px solid #dddddd;" title="420times_000002362202XSmall" width="150" /></a>WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new FBI report released today shows that there is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. A group of police and judges who have been campaigning to legalize and regulate drugs pointed to the figures showing more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2010 as evidence that the “war on drugs” is a failure that can never be won.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">“Since the declaration of the ‘war on drugs’ 40 years ago we’ve arrested tens of millions of people in an effort to reduce drug use. The fact that cops had to spend time arresting another 1.6 million of our fellow citizens last year shows that it simply hasn’t worked. In the current economy we simply cannot afford to keep arresting three people every minute in the failed ‘war on drugs,’” said Neill Franklin, a retired Baltimore narcotics cop who now heads the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). “If we legalized and taxed drugs, we could not only create new revenue in addition to the money we’d save from ending the cruel policy of arresting users, but we’d make society safer by bankrupting the cartels and gangs who control the currently illegal marketplace.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Today’s FBI report, which can be found at<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #003333;" href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010" target="_blank">http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010</a>, shows that 81.9 percent of all drug arrests in 2010 were for possession only, and 45.8 percent of all drug arrests were for possession of marijuana.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">A separate Department of Justice report released last month shows that Mexican drug cartels are currently operating in more than 1,000 U.S. cities, whereas two years ago they were in 230 U.S. cities. Meanwhile, a new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report released earlier this month shows that nearly one in 10 Americans admit to regularly using illegal drugs.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Sadly, arrests are not a sign of success but a sign of a cycle of waste and idiocy that has our country locked in a downward spiral of drug abuse and violence.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px;">The unmitigated failure of The War on Drugs is on display every day in a multitude of ways. This report is yet another example of the government highlighting their massive failure.</p></span></p>

if arresting people for drugs was a sign of success in The War on Drugs, then I guess our government has won.

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More Than Half Of All Drug Arrests In U.S. Are For Marijuana

<p> </p><p>We all know marijuana is the most used illegal drug in The United States. It stands to reason that marijuana is responsible for the most arrests out of all of the illegal drugs. But according to new statistics from the F.B.I., marijuana arrests account for more than half of all drugs arrested, meaning more people are arrested for marijuana than all other illicit drugs combined. Of the 854,000 arrests for marijuana, 88% were for possession. Opponents of marijuana legalization like to pretend that The War on Drugs is aimed at gang leaders and dealers, but the simple fact is the drug war budgets of law enforcement agencies are built on the backs of people whose only crime was having some weed on their person.</p>

More Than Half Of All Drug Arrests In U.S. Are For Marijuana

  We all know marijuana is the most used illegal drug in The United States. It stands to reason that marijuana is responsible for the most a...

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