U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill
The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out. H.R. 313, the "Drug ( Read more... )
As far as I know, codeine is not an ingredient in meth, though it can be demethylated to make illegal morphine, which can then be acetylated to make heroin. Which could probably be done in a meth lab since some of the chemicals used are the same for both processes. (Such morphine or heroin is dangerous since it often contains trace amounts of said chemicals, some of which are carcinogens.) There are very few legal tablet-form OTC codeine preparations that are open to straight-up drug abuse, largely because it is usually mixed with paracetamol, which is toxic to the liver in overdose. Abuse is much more likely on higher prescription-only doses.
To be honest, this whole law is going to be full of a lot of loose interpretations that draw unwanted attention - mainly from costing the state a small fortune in prosecuting people for ridiculous shit rather than catching real criminals like the ones in the '2007' case in the article, much like the 'War on Drugs' gets so much negative attention for jailing more people for carrying small amounts of drugs for personal use than dealers and suppliers. Piper posited the very situation I originally posted as being illegal under such law. This law comes off as exactly what it is - small government, putting itself in not only the pockets of US citizens, but over-reaching into legal imperialism. Countries have their own laws for a reason, and don't need the United States' intervention or 'nannying' - especially not when a US citizen on foreign soil won't be doing anything illegal in other countries in many cases.
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I was looking up some statistics to back that up but it's too early in the morning and I can't find one that seperates probation, parole, jail, state, federal, custody pre trial detention and also breaks it down by crime etc.
dated info is dated but
State prisons held a total of 1,296,700 inmates on all charges at yearend 2005. In absolute numbers, an estimated 687,700 inmates in State prison at yearend 2005 were held for violent offenses: 166,700 for murder, 177,900 for robbery, 129,200 for assault, and 164,600 for rape and other sexual assaults. In addition, 248,900 inmates were held for property offenses, 253,300 for drug offenses, and 98,700 for public-order offenses. It doesn't say anything about overlap were people were charged with more then one crime...
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