Drug Busts On CA

[james]

Sayin the officer only had 2 days of training from being switched over from street duty to water patrol is a poor excuse, its just common sense......seatbelt-car, pfd-boat, been that way for years, maybe they were covering that on the third day of training,

[rFisherk]

I live in a small Ozark town, and I hardly know anyone who isn't on some kind of mood-altering drug, dispensed to them by the legalized drug dealers with a Dr. in front of their names. A large portion of these people abuse them, doctor shop, etc. All of these drugs, especially those given to kids that talk out of turn in school, are much more dangerous than grass.

While fighting a hypocritical "war on drugs," the pharmaceutical companies, with doctors as their pushers, have created a massive legal drug culture.

And when they can't get it up because of the drugs they are taking, they just add Viagra to the pile. Win-win for the drug companies.

[fishinwrench]

No kidding. So many of THOSE drugs get used/abused that traces of the stuff ends up in our waterways through their excrement. That's just sickening.

[james]

I live in a small Ozark town, and I hardly know anyone who isn't on some kind of mood-altering drug, dispensed to them by the legalized drug dealers with a Dr. in front of their names. A large portion of these people abuse them, doctor shop, etc. All of these drugs, especially those given to kids that talk out of turn in school, are much more dangerous than grass.

While fighting a hypocritical "war on drugs," the pharmaceutical companies, with doctors as their pushers, have created a massive legal drug culture.

And when they can't get it up because of the drugs they are taking, they just add Viagra to the pile. Win-win for the drug companies.

Yup and when the doctors cut them off of the pain meds, a lot go straight to the heroin, if only the doctors could get kickbacks from the cartels, what a great big wheel of money that would be.

[rFisherk]

No kidding. So many of THOSE drugs get used/abused that traces of the stuff ends up in our waterways through their excrement. That's just sickening.

Even more troubling are the number of drugs of all kinds that get flushed down the toilet, especially antibiotics.

[MOPanfisher]

You gotta admit that here at OA the topics are varied, sometimes within a single topic. From drug busts at CA s, to the Brandon Ellingson tragedy, to heroin and prescription drug abuse and drugs in our waterways, and ALL of them are valid concerns.

[jdmidwest]

So has anyone on here actually visited Pink Rock, aka Amidon Forest, aka Hahn's Mill?

[fishinwrench]

You gotta admit that here at OA the topics are varied, sometimes within a single topic. From drug busts at CA s, to the Brandon Ellingson tragedy, to heroin and prescription drug abuse and drugs in our waterways, and ALL of them are valid concerns.

Conversations wander. Only seminars and business meetings require staying strictly on topic.

[Al Agnew]

Yep. I've been there many times in all seasons of the year, and visited it even before it became a public area. Back around 1970, I started collecting topographic maps, beginning in the general area where I lived in St. Francois County, and eventually had maps covering the entire Ozark area. I'd pore over new maps when I got them. I had learned to read them very well, and I knew what a shut-in looked like on a topo map. I saw this little shut-in on the map, and was very curious about it since it was a little to the east of the main St. Francois Mountain area. I'd never heard of what was then locally just called "Pink Rocks". So I drove down to explore it, and was absolutely blown away. It has to rank as one of the two or three most beautiful shut-ins. That winter day the sun was bright, sky was deep blue, water was as clear as air, and those rocks were simply glowing in the sun, framed by bright green pines and the vari-colored lichens on the higher rock faces. I came back the next spring and waded through the area, catching a bunch of hard-fighting little smallmouth, even catching two at once, and it was the only time, out of all the times when I've caught two bass at once,when I actually saw both of them hit the lure at the same time.

I wish it would have remained a little more difficult to get to, instead of that parking lot way too close to it.

[joeD]

Drugs. Can't live with 'em. Can't live without 'em.

Now what?