Thanks, Legitimate, for being so dilligent on the press releases. This is, I predict, the concentrated beginning of the Ashcroft crack-down on domestic OP's. Only the most stringent OP's will survive. But, like the failure of simplemindedness in Iraq, this attempt will only move the money from Florida to Mexico or Columbia or Brazil or maybe India.

As I've predicted many times, the demand is there. People want ambien, vicodin and oxycontin. None of these are terribly hard to mfg. But the DEA/FDA is intimidating doctors against prescribing them for chronic use. If domestic OP's in FL can't deliver, organizations with long, successful histories of delivering recreational drugs will deliver. And the delivery will be made from UPS depots in San Ysidro or El Paso or Brownsville.

The war on drugs is like the war on terrorism -- it can't be won, only small tactical victories will occur at tremendous expense to U.S. treasure (money and people). Long term, the WOD goes on forever, unless you give it up for a new approach.

Social Conservatives hate the idea of cost benefit analysis, when pitted against (their)morality. But, it really does come down to how much are we willing to pay for each pill intercepted, knowing that at best we're intercepting 10%. Sooner or later a rational being will reach the conclusion that it is better to treat the ~10% of the population that can't handle drugs and/or alcohol and forget spending ~$50B a year to arrest, try and incarcerate them. Especially, when arrest, conviction and incarceratation accomplishes nothing other than keeping a "dope-fiend" off the streets for several years at $50,000/year of your tax money. Where is the morality in this?