Criminal Justice
75 Students, 21 Others Arrested in San Diego State Drug Bust
Posted May 6, 2008, 04:02 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
A six-month investigation sparked by the overdose death of a student has resulted in the arrest of 96 people allegedly involved in a San Diego State University-centered drug operation. Seven fraternity houses were reportedly infiltrated during the investigation.
"Agents allegedly discovered evidence of widespread drug-dealing among some fraternity members," writes the Los Angeles Times. "Drugs involved included marijuana, cocaine and Ecstasy."
The investigation apparently was conducted by, or with the help of, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in San Diego.
The university's president, Stephen Weber, says he did the right thing by allowing undercover officers on campus, and says fraternities will be kicked off campus if they are found to have been involved "as organizations" in drug dealing.
Among those arrested, the newspaper reports, is an alleged drug dealer on the verge of earning a homeland security master's degree who had worked as a security officer on the campus police force. Another arrested student is a criminal justice major.
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Posted by Doctor Crews - 2 months, 1 week, 6 days, 13 hours, 45 minutes ago
I wonder if any of those arrested had medical marijuana licenses? That would make their possession of medical marijuana legal under California law. Apparently, if one is tried by the federal courts for marijuana possession the jury is not allowed to know that the prosecuted was within the bounds of their state law. This article also shows that our best and brightest use drugs revealing the curtain of hypocrisy most educated Americans (not including you educated neoliberal religious scum from that plague of ignorance called the Midwest) live with and recognize as truth. America’s drug enforcement polices are based on Christian values, if our laws could only be made rational we might actually accomplish the higher aims of these laws; i.e. creating a more safe society. Instead, prohibition, just as the mobsters of 1920-32 gained a huge capital recourse with alcohol’s illegalization, creates wealthy crime societies who deal drugs but also expand their well-funded enterprises into other turf such as prostitution. Just as with alcohol and tobacco, regulation of these substances combined with taxation would actually make society more safe. These artificial laws have no place in American tradition, and they create more crime and ruin more lives than they save. Christian moral values encourage the law to interfere with personal choice, but negative-liberty, i.e. freedom from oppression, is one of the founding traditions of our republic! Our law system needs to be divorced from Christian moral values and realigned with its enlightened rationalist traditions in negative liberty. A rationalist moral code would be something like this, that which is good for the community and the individual is good, that which good for the individual and bad the community is evil, and that which is bad for the individual but harmless the rest of society is the choice of the individual!