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HOGBACK, New Mexico (Reuters) - A brutal triple slaying in this remote corner of the vast Navajo reservation brought home what experts have seen coming for years: an explosion in crime on tribal lands linked to the cheap, potent and highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine.
"Meth is the biggest scourge," says Francis Bradley, the chief of police for the Hualapai reservation in northern Arizona, located on the high desert flanking the south rim of the Grand Canyon.
Little strange they are just now recognizing this on reservations. It's been going on in Idaho, Montana and Washington reservations for a long time. From what they say, the law can't go in on the reservations. So this leaves them open to doing the drugs freely in their community.
When you have welfare,food stamps, drugs and casinos and few laws to abide..........how could this be a power keg for violence
Our government does nothing about drugs, their so called "war on drugs"& "just say no"!! They just support more addicts and more government handouts, that lead people to no life of their own.
Little strange they are just now recognizing this on reservations. It's been going on in Idaho, Montana and Washington reservations for a long time. From what they say, the law can't go in on the reservations. So this leaves them open to doing the drugs freely in their community.
When you have welfare,food stamps, drugs and casinos and few laws to abide..........how could this be a power keg for violence
Our government does nothing about drugs, their so called "war on drugs"& "just say no"!! They just support more addicts and more government handouts, that lead people to no life of their own.
Meth is a problem in all parts of American society, not just on NDN reservations. Let's not start demonizing and generalizing the Native American and their reservations. I assure you it's a pi$$ing match you don't want to get into and you won't win.
Meth is a problem in all parts of American society, not just on NDN reservations. Let's not start demonizing and generalizing the Native American and their reservations. I assure you it's a pi$$ing match you don't want to get into and you won't win.
This is not what I was referring to...........it is a problem in all of society, but most of society doesn't have land that can't be gone in on with out permission and that's not what the thread is about. The reservations are protected from outside laws, and this in itself is a problem, when it comes to drug activity.
Why is it, if something is said on a post when the thread is about certain people, it always becomes.................... the race thing
Meth reminds me of the Appalachia Mountains of West Virginia.
Me too. It is one of the most impoverished areas of the country and meth is a huge problem there.
That said, Native American reservations are perhaps the absolute most poverty-stricken areas in the US. If you actually visit one, it is simply heartbreaking. It doesn't surprise me in the least that the meth is a huge problem on reservations.
Meth addicts deserve no sympathy, their children do.
No one forces people to do Meth, you're free to choose, even if it's a stupid one.
Want to get high, go for it as long as you don't steal from me I have no problem with it.
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