New York City prints "How to Shoot Smack" guide...

[Nightowl]

Why dont they publish a "Shooting up heroin for Dummies" it'll make good reading material for the ol' coffee table.

[SPazzo]

Sure they can, just throw away all their comics! 

:P

Hehe... actually it's heroin.  Heroine is a female hero.  (Don't worry, I had to look that up, cause I wasn't sure.)

:)

I'm in Canada, that's my excuse.  (Thanks for the save Rev.)

[Rev. Powell]

is this why most cops now are corrupt? i'm used to it, here in Lovely New Orleans

Yeah, I've heard about corrupt cops in the Big Easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4BdkOXfxk

[Leah]

is this why most cops now are corrupt? i'm used to it, here in Lovely New Orleans

Yeah, I've heard about corrupt cops in the Big Easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4BdkOXfxk

Please kill me 

[Rev. Powell]

is this why most cops now are corrupt? i'm used to it, here in Lovely New Orleans

Yeah, I've heard about corrupt cops in the Big Easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4BdkOXfxk

Please kill me 

I will not!

[Javakoala]

Why should you kill anyone? Mr. Cage's bad acting will do the job for you.

[Jim H]

Why should you kill anyone? Mr. Cage's bad acting will do the job for you.

From what I gather, that's the entire point of the movie, isn't it?

[AndyC]

Well, if there was ever a sign that the war on drugs is not going well, it's when the government's position becomes "If you're going to do it, do it right." I understand the reasons for it, but it seems like a mixed message to me.

How the authorities view drug use, or at least how the public believes they do, is a fairly significant thing. Here in Canada, enforcement has been relaxed when it comes to tiny amounts of pot. A couple of grams might get seized with no charges laid. That has created the impression that it's no big deal. Covering court, the one thing I could always count on every time was at least one guy, caught with a bag of weed in his car, getting the judge's well-practiced lecture about marijuana still being against the law, regardless of what anyone has said. That is usually accompanied by a sentence the poor bugger didn't expect when he obligingly told the cops where the stash was and plead guilty at his first opportunity. It's best to keep your message consistent.

Besides that, I've seen too many well-meaning programs aimed at making people more comfortable in their s**tty life while doing nothing to get them out of it at best, and enabling them to continue it at worst.

It's always struck me as weird the way we can turn our notion of individual rights into a reason for not intervening in someone's self-destruction. I think if I were supreme dictator, police would just grab junkies and homeless off the street and put them in camps where they would be detoxed, counseled, built up through proper nutrition and hard work, given some basic skills and released on probation in some place a little less corrupting than the environment they were in. Surely this would yield better results for the money than what goes on at the present time.