Thread: DEA agent won’t admit heroin more harmful than marijuana

Let me clarify,

According to testimony given before congress,

(1) You can fuel up a C-5 and fly it off an AFB without filing a flight plan or getting authorization and no one will try to stop you.

(2) You can fly a C-5 directly from Nicaragua to Iran without refueling anywhere so long as you fly a great circle route.

(1) and (2) were necessary to explain how a the Colonel was able to fly heavy weapons from Nicaragua to Iran in order to sell the weapons to the Iranians and create a slush fund for some right wing rebels in Nicaragua, without anyone other than him being responsible and explain how no records of the flights were kept.

I think you will agree that both of these things are probably not possible.

-H

Politically motivated question, politically motivated answer.

They are different drugs and effect different parts of the body. They have different entry methods. So you are not comparing apples and apples. Typically heroin and meth are considered "hard" drugs. So do we take into account the likeliness of a person over dosing? Based on concentration and entry method, yes they are probably worse for your health, but you have to quantify a dose and compare them equally. Meth and heroin both have prescription drugs in the same family.

I have had morphine at the hospital, it was enough to make me feel "high." That same dose taken every day would produce less of the high. I would have to increase the dose to feel the same. Once the dose gets large enough it is very dangerous.

He had an answer he wanted to hear and she didnt want to give it to him. She needs to learn to answer in a way that says fuck off and not stutter.

Originally Posted by flame

Politically motivated question, politically motivated answer.

They are different drugs and effect different parts of the body. They have different entry methods. So you are not comparing apples and apples. Typically heroin and meth are considered "hard" drugs. So do we take into account the likeliness of a person over dosing? Based on concentration and entry method, yes they are probably worse for your health, but you have to quantify a dose and compare them equally. Meth and heroin both have prescription drugs in the same family.

I have had morphine at the hospital, it was enough to make me feel "high." That same dose taken every day would produce less of the high. I would have to increase the dose to feel the same. Once the dose gets large enough it is very dangerous.

He had an answer he wanted to hear and she didnt want to give it to him. She needs to learn to answer in a way that says fuck off and not stutter.

Bullshit. She's a public servant who's responsability was to answer the question honestly and not dance around it. She makes government look bad.

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

Yes

Really xav, that is not necissary. I was not clear in my original posts.

-H

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

Bullshit. She's a public servant who's responsability was to answer the question honestly and not dance around it. She makes government look bad.

Again, this is testimony before congress. The truth is orthogonal to its purpose, which is to score political points. This is the political equivalent of "have you stopped beating your wife?" If she says that Marijuana is not as bad as Heroin she will get shit canned so fast its not even funny. If she dances around the question she looks like an idiot but no one is going to fire her, even though she looks completely incompetent.

-H

It is saddening that political "truth" is defined by lobbyists and advertising agencies in the case of something as empirically quantifiable as these various and specific drug effects. They own our public servants.