Sen. Steve Daines (R–MT) dreams of the days when Montana's homecooked methamphetamines ruled the state

The simple solution which actually works is to allow prescription amphetamines for people with drug addiction issues. When they are ready, make sure there are adequate treatment facilities and counselling oh fuck it I can’t even pretend these people give a fuck about actual human beings. Sigh.

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Probably why the politicians are half-baked.

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“Homegrown”? I’m admittedly not too familiar w/ meth, but…“homegrown”?!

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Of course the imports have fewer impurities. Purity reduces the bulk and weight for shipment.

As for hauling it up from the Mexican border to Montana? Stupid. Much easier to bring it in on container ships to Seattle or Portland, then by rail to Montana. The coal trains going east have plenty of capacity to spare.

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I am so weary of these fight-wing porkheads. They will say anything, anything as long as they can present it in terms of, “___is worse now because of them.” It doesn’t matter how unhinged their pronouncements sound because they are totally immune to context. “Twenty years ago, when we took a crap in the woods, our shit stank! Stank real bad! These illegals coming in, their shit doesn’t stink as bad as ours. And it’s firmer, too!” Just selling the structure, folks.

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I agree, the better term here is ‘home-cooked’.

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Do you suppose he even understands that you don’t “grow” meth? And why does he sound so proud of his state “growing” it? Or is he just an idiot? Yeah, let’s go with that one.

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He also seems to think that higher purity levels somehow make it more dangerous.

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Blue state: we have a drug problem
Red state: we have a mexico problem

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It’s like a Pepperidge Farm commercial for tweakers.

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But those were American-made road flares!

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It is painful watching him balance on one leg then on the other, using slippery stepping-stones to get across the River of Truth and keep his feet dry.

Well, that’s what he said. But this is what I hear…

Twenty years ago in Montana, Stupid was homemade. It was homegrown. And it had purity levels less than 30 percent. Everything a politician said was at least half reality. Today, the Stupid that is getting into Montana is supplied by a Russian cartel: we just have to read it off a sheet and into a microphone. It has purities north of 95 percent. Far more dangerous, far more addictive, and it’s less expensive because they’re producing so much of it and then shipping it into our country.

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I thought republiqans were all over the “free market, let the market decide” business. Next he’ll be wanting tariffs and a trade embargo.

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The free market is only meant for God fearing Americans. Foreigners and liberals don’t deserve to take part because they are godless Communists.

/s

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Back when weed was the primary concern (and valuable enough that the cartels bothered growing it) notice how Montana politicians didn’t make speeches about building walls with Canada? It was BC Bud coming in in those days because, well, it’s right there, but it came from white people so that’s cool.

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Yep, this is right. There’s a reason for the timing of the rise of the Mexican cartels and the horrors they’ve brought to northern Mexico-it’s in large part a result of US domestic drug policy.

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Didn’t USMCA provide protections for U.S. meth producers?

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That should be enough response.

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It sounds like an opportunity to tap the nostalgia market:

Old Montana Country Meth – Tweaking like your daddy did!

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