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2025-04-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Drug-fueled crime hits rural state hard as leaders struggle to find solution

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [292 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

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Treat the addicts, execute the dealers upon conviction. Allowing 1 mandatory automatic appeal not to exceed 3 years... not 20 years later or life as it is now.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-25 05:10|| 2025-04-25 05:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The famous Shakespeare quote about lawyers from Henry VI, Part II, is entirely applicable.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-04-25 06:36|| 2025-04-25 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 An interesting development. Maine used to be up near Canada. Recently, with Trump's tariffs vs fentanyl move, we have gotten some idea of the extent of China's involvement in Canadian government and other even scurrilous things. Perhaps there is a CCP connection here. Or it could just be the usual transnational criminal gangs.

It is left as an exercise for the Reader to distinguish national governments from criminal cartels.

Posted by SteveS 2025-04-25 10:32|| 2025-04-25 10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Maine is perfect for this type of operation. Most of the population is near the seaboard, with vast areas of forests and undeveloped areas to hide.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-04-25 10:35|| 2025-04-25 10:35|| Front Page Top

#5 And then there is the unprecedented demand driven by woke nonsense -the hopeless nihilism - indoctrinated into our young students. They need true meaning in their lives, not drugs.

As an aside, marijuana was legalized here 3 years ago.

Posted by Difar Dave 2025-04-25 11:27|| 2025-04-25 11:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Maine used to be up near Canada.

Where is it now, SteveS?

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-25 12:20|| 2025-04-25 12:20|| Front Page Top

#7 What we've seen in the past, particularly four years, is that our area has turned into a wholesale distribution hub.

The past four years? You mean the Biden administration?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-04-25 12:23|| 2025-04-25 12:23|| Front Page Top

#8 This last year or so we have been reading about illegal Chinese marijuana grows in Maine. I guess fentanyl goes along with the Chinese growers.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-04-25 13:49|| 2025-04-25 13:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Where is it now, SteveS?

Apparently in a Yellow Submarine.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-04-25 18:12|| 2025-04-25 18:12|| Front Page Top

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