A press release from the McHenry County Treasurer’s Office:
Wonder Lake Man Arrested for Possession of Controlled Substance after Traffic Stop
Jason Beaty
Jason L. Beaty, 32, of Wonder Lake was arrested Thursday night on traffic and drug charges in Crystal Lake.
Members of the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division observed a 2006 black Cadillac weaving while driving northbound on Walkup Road near Woodstock Street in Crystal Lake, Illinois, at approximately 11:35 p.m.
Deputies initiated a traffic stop and learned that the driver and sole occupant, Jason L. Beaty, had a revoked driver’s license.
He was cited for a lane violation and arrested for driving while license revoked.
Beaty was then transported to the McHenry County Correctional Facility.
During the booking process, Deputies and Correctional Officers discovered Beaty had concealed 7 small bags of a powdery substance concealed on his person.
Deputies’ field tested the substance and discovered it to be 0.7 grams of heroin.
The street value of the heroin seized is approximately $140.
http://m.nwherald.com/2016/03/22/mchenry-county-probation-department-training-aims-at-changing-behavior/a8r82im/
The beginning of the end of of what used to be McHenry County.
Welcome to Chicago!
Wait …. I’ve got an idea let’s elect a DEMOCRAT like they have in Chicago to head our County board.
things can only get better right……
NOT.
See the truth: http://www.lyingjackfranks.com/
Doesn’t that Democrat’s family own a lot of property in Wonder Lake?
I’ve got a better idea.
Let’s pass legislation that provides heroin and its counterparts which are produced in regulated labs, at little or no cost to the user, and administered in clean, safe and controlled environments, thereby undercutting the illegal trade, sidestepping the dangers of rampant overdosing, and substituting medical treatment for imprisonment.
Let Social Services track users and provide adequate family services, transportation and follow-up care for addicts to get treatment and remove the social stigma of criminality, allowing them some degree of decency and respect.
This approach has been successfully applied in various countries the world over but largely ignored in the US because the beneficiaries of both the War ON Drugs and the War FOR Drugs (cartels, etc) heavily invest in its continuance.
Get serious. Make the crime of distribution of any amount a capitol offense.
In 1973 or 1974 I first heard this idea’s being tried in Great Britain.
How did that turn out?
So much of the results of decriminalization are politically driven its hard to point to any one country’s experiments with this concept as “successful”, but there are several who can point to long-term reductions in illegal drug trafficking, reduced mortality from overdosing, greatly reduced drug consumption & availability by minors and reduction in street crime and vagrancy which leads to safer and more secure neighborhoods, higher property values, more secure tax base and the ability of police to redirect manpower to more pressing needs of the community.
By any measure, that is success.
I’ll get back to you on specific countries, esp. GB.
Fierabras,
I am dead serious about this.
Do some homework.
We have been punishing, incarcerating and even killing drug dealers for decades with no tangible results.
Heroin use has increased by over 400% since 2000.
Your suggestion would kneecap the entire judicial system and the research shows that even capital punishment is not an effective deterrent.
Most addicts deal to support their habits and most heroin use is by middle-class people with jobs and families.
By providing a safe and legal alternative to street drugs, this public/private partnership circumvents the entire irresolvable dillema of illegal production, sale, distribution and use.
Others have found otherwise:
The opium trade hit its peak in 1906, with 35,000 tonnes grown domestically and an extra 4,000 tonnes brought in from abroad.
By that time, China had lost two wars over opium to “barbarians” from Europe, and its “celestial court” was fatally weakened.
A whopping 13.5 million Chinese, out of an estimated population of 400 million, were hooked on opium, including 27 percent of the country’s male population.
Only after World War II did the “century of humiliation” come to a close.
As the Communist Party rose to power in 1949, it zeroed in on the remaining vestiges of China’s “shame” – the country’s ever-growing addict population.
Estimates suggested there were as many as 20 million, or five percent of the population.
says Hong Lu, co-author of the book China’s Drug Practices and Policies.
Contemporary drug laws were an opportunity for the new government
Under the Communist Party, opium fields were razed.
As with previous governments, addicts had to subscribe to a detoxification schedule, or else suffer punishment.
More than 800 traffickers were put to death, and many more were successfully prosecuted.
A nationwide campaign spread an anti-drug message, and systems of neighbourhood surveillance were implemented to report local drug users.
In 1953, barely five years into the new regime, the Communist leadership made a stunning announcement: China was effectively drug-free.
No official statistics were released, but addiction rates are widely believed to have plummeted, thanks to the new measures.
Credit – http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/05/china-opium-wars-battling-addiction-beijing-160516141819379.html