Portugal seizes ‘narco-submarine’ carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine
There was going to be a party yuou were all invited to but sadly it’s now off. Just can’t get the supplies, d’ye see?
Portugal seizes ‘narco-submarine’ carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine
There was going to be a party yuou were all invited to but sadly it’s now off. Just can’t get the supplies, d’ye see?
I wonder if anyone is doing it remotely. The tech to have a sub that gets a GPS fix every day, corrects corrects isn’t that difficult.
But there is no way I am going all Breaking Bad and working with the cartels. “I am the One Who Codes”
Breaking Bad is a tragedy about a poor but hardworking immigrant who successfully built a great business, only to end up dead because he hired an unprofessional drama queen.
I’m wondering if I’m a rarity, in that I have never seen the white stuff in real life.
Mr W, well Dr. David Viner did tell us kids in England just aren’t going to know what snow is 25 years ago………..
I’ve never tried it but I did see someone doing a line in the toilets at a Prodigy gig. But that’s like seeing people ordering tea and cakes in Burford.
I’m friends with a couple of guys who do it. Neither can afford it, but they do it anyway. Tragic, but you can’t tell a middle aged man what to do. Anybody who has been in recovery knows, they don’t get better unless they want to.
I once knew a guy who made millions selling his business, then went mad on cocaine and some kind of midlife crisis. He was doing lines off the dashboard of his fancy car at lunchtime. He’s divorced and penniless last I heard.
Cocaine is one hell of a drug. I have never been tempted because I know my own addictive nature and I know you can’t buy pure cocaine anyway. If you’re lucky, it’s half baby talc, if you’re unlucky it’s fentanyl and you’ll die. I don’t like the idea of snorting mystery substances into my sinuses.
Anyway, speaking to one of my coke addict friends recently and his plan was to try and get off the coke and replace it with booze. A lot of addicts are polysubstance abusers so it doesn’t matter what we ban, they’ll sniff highlighter pens and drink Harpic if that’s all they can get.
All a lot of drama. Reality is probably less that 1% who do charlie get addicted. And they’re the sort of people have addictive personalities. So if it wasn’t charlie it’d be something else.
Toilet Duck.
Very well designed bottles for snorting.
yes, I don’t know of anybody who is into coke and no other intoxicating substances. For the people who do have addictive personalities, access to hard stuff is a serious problem. But banning has completely failed to do anything except enrich cartels so we should try something else. Not necessarily legalise it and put it in vending machines, but we should look to reduce and not increase the profit margins of criminal gangs.
Yeah. The brilliant, socially advanced government of Oz has put huge taxes on tobacco, so people can’t afford it and will stop buying it.
I’m sure you’re shocked to hear that the sale of illegal cigarettes is booming.
I get the impression drugs are readily available if you go looking, but I’ve only ever seen one guy doing a line – in the bogs of a pub in Harwich.
Can’t even keep drugs out of prison. Markets, uh, find a way.
I, and many friends, used to use it regularly 50 years ago. (Dang, typing “50 years ago” – made my heart stutter.)
Biggest problem was avoiding law enforcement while still considering ourselves as law-abiding people. We were, in almost every way. But drugs were fun . . .
Just a thought, but if drug dealers are making enough excess profits to build ocean-going submarines, at what point do we decide we’ve enriched the cartels enough?
None of these problems when cocaine was legal. If an adult wants to ruin his life with coke, what’s the point of trying to stop them? It’s not working.
The bootleggers experimented with submarines during prohibition, but that’s only about 1km to travel from Canada.
Indeed. I confidently predict that this seizure will make no difference to the price and availability of cocaine in Europe. Legalise and regulate. It wouldn’t be straightforward of course. One of the things which would need to change would be our insistence on treating drug addicts as victims. No mitigation for junkie thieves, a longer sentence instead.
Reaper drones and Hellfires are the current Leftpondian solution to drug boats.
More power to Trump’s elbow, even if it does piss off Maduro, which may be partly the point.
That’s just theatre.
There are two ways to end this. Either you legalise it for adults, or you go to full on war with users. You completely destroy the market by locking up everyone in possession. You have a joint? Caution. Do it again, jail, criminal record. Everyone would think twice about doing a bit of puff if they could go to jail for it.
But no-one wants that. They don’t mind someone who sells drugs going to jail, but not them or their kids buying it. And the problem there is that a dealer goes to jail and another dealer takes his place.