Midland City man charged with manufacturing drugs near school

Jeb,I tend to agree with you.Anyoe that manufactures drugs near a school, and or, sells these drugs to kids should get the highest punishment allowable by law. And yes we citizens can do something about our lawmakers if they are not living up to thei poetential. If they are not doing their job properly, then we can vote them outof office. WE are their Boss. No one is above the law in this country. Yes this countryhas gotten in poor shape but yes it is still the greatest country on Earth. It has, however gotten immoral. We should Separate chruchfrom state, but not from our country as a whole. What I mean is that we should let our beleifs as Christians control our daily lives, and Decisions every day that we are on this Earth.

Guru, I don’t believe I said anything about punishments.  But if you want to go there I can.  I believe the punishment should fit the crime. I never said that a heroine dealer should get the same punishment as a pot smoker.  But a marijuana dealer, any drug dealer for that matter should get the same punishment.  And in this case the charges brought against this man, a man that was MANUFACTURING this drug next to TWO SCHOOLS and SELLING IT TO KIDS, fits.  You are free to have your own opinion of what the law should be.  You think of pot as a harmless weed and that it should be legalized and that people should be able to smoke it on his or her own property.  But what happens when these people and other people that smoke pot decide to get behind the wheel and drive while impaired.  It would be the same as a person being drunk and getting behind the wheel impaired.  You may not be one of those pot smokers that would do that, but there are plenty of them that would.  There is no reason for me to argue about the law because it is what it is.  And if you would stop and think for a second, you would realize that our lawmakers have a reason for what they do and the laws they make.  I have no control over them and neither do you.  As for crowing about “the sky falling”, just look at the shape our country is in already, that should speak for itself.  And no my husband is not employed to just get drunks off the road, he is employed to help uphold the law and to make sure that my children, family, my friends, and me, the whole community, even you is kept safe.  Self-righteous?  I don’t see myself that way, but there again you are free to your opinion.  Moral? Most definitely.  As for stopping the sale of alcohol, I find your opinion on that a little hypocritical.  Because, yes I do think alcohol is a drug I never said that it wasn’t, and pot is a drug too with basically the same effects as alcohol.  But you want to make alcohol not legal and legalize pot.  If we did that my husband would have just as much to do as he does now.  Yes I am very specific about what is legal and what isn’t.  However, you are the one that seems to be a little cloudy on what a drug is.  But then again with all that smoke sometimes things do tend to get cloudy.

Oh, I’m sorry I should not have said anything about judgment; strike that last sentence from my previous reply.  Maybe I should have said something about sarcasm, and yes I do have the rhetoric ready for your last comment.  I would put pot, meth, crack, crank, cocaine, heroine, extasy (what ever your drug of choice would be) in the same category.  THEY ARE ALL ILLEGAL CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.  The key word in that statement is ILLEGAL.  The only difference between them and alcohol is that alcohol “is” LEGAL.  So our “dedicated officers” are doing their job when they go after the pothead, dope smoking, meth smoking, meth lab making, pill pushing, selling to our kids, crazies out there. And as for doing something about alcohol, my husband is a law enforcement officer, so he is doing something about that every time he stops some stupid jerk from driving drunk and gives them a DUI and takes them to jail,  or when he arrests someone for public intox, or arrests someone for a drunken domestic. As for the moral decay of our communities, who needs drugs to decay their morals any way when we have people with the attitude that you have on drugs.  It’s no wonder that the country is in the shape that it is in.

Well for one, guru, if you would read the article again it is the Dothan Vice Unit and the Wiregrass Violent Crimes/Drug task Force.  So I think that would make them qualified to go after your so-called pot smokers!!!!  And yes it was for one guy growing pot.  One guy who had a full fledged operation going with lamps, seeds, acid the whole nine yards, plus a stash of Xanax.  One guy who admittedly said he sold to kids and was growing and manufacturing it about 100 yards from two schools.  Myself I could care less where they get paid from, we need them in this area and they do a magnificent job.  You say you remember when a couple of deputies could do that job.  Well that was before there were so many pothead, dope smoking, meth smoking, meth lab making, pill pushing, selling to our kids, crazies out there.  Decriminalize marijuana?  That would just double the work that they are doing now, let alone what it would to the moral decay of the communities that are already in trouble now.  I for one am glad they are around.  Evidently you must be a pot smoker yourself and have no children to have an attitude like that.  Don’t judge the fine law enforcement officers before you have walked a mile in their shoes, because without them god help us all.