Yo smokey the dumb-azz. i just added u to my u can kiss my azz club. man i like to make you my cellie if u know what i mean. Sticking up for drug dealers is not cool. Yo Jewels my little baby doll lets kix his azz. Me and my road Dawg GregL will hold him down and u can do your thang! Smokey ani't right.

It is very funny how you all are so opinionated yet when you encounter someone who has a different opinion you attack them and fly off the handle.  Perhaps that is just part of living in a small town for you? No-one is asking you to agree with me or expecting you to but it seems like it's hard for you to all grasp that your opinion is not the only one.

I do have children and in that situation I would never place the blame on the person who was selling the drugs. They are obviously breaking the law but if you think for one second that they are pushing/pressuring and convincing children to do drugs you are wrong. Drugs sell themselves incase you haven't noticed. If you want to misplace blame because people don;t know how to raise thier children or the children don;t have enough sense to know right from wrong so be it..

It's a shame you can't all have an 'adult' discussion without throwing accusations and personal attacks. Maybe if you were a little more open minded to the opinions of others and didn't become so defensive you'd be able able to escape from the little bubble you live in.

Smokey says~I do have children and in that situation I would never place the blame on the person who was selling the drugs.

are you telling me if a 30 year old drug dealer was selling drugs to your 12 year old you wouldnt have a problem

"I do have children and in that situation I would never place the blame on the person who was selling the drugs."

So who would be responsible? Your child? There's no way you are a parent. If you are, I feel for your children.

You seem to be the one living in a bubble. Of course they are pushing to young impressionable kids. Hook 'em young and keep them hooked.

You really aren't that naive are you?

Today in Bakersfield David Rosenberg or Tehachapi pleaded Innocent to the charges of murder of Michelle cross also of Tehachapi. YA RIGHT.

Smokey~~ so are you also saying if an adult lures your child into their car and talks them into doing something (which is what those sick FW@#$@#$ do) you would blame your child or yourself because "they should have known not to talk to strangers".  Any adult that "preys" on a child in any way THE ADULT IS RESPONSIBLE.

Is that better Jewels. I added to my last post

If you really believe people who sell drugs are out on the street prowling for children to make into addicts you watch too many movies.  The people introducing children to drugs are their peers not some freak hanging around in a van at recess. Like I said before, drugs sell themselves. (When is the last time you saw a billboard promoting meth? )

If a 30 year old drug dealer was selling drugs to my children then obviously I did not do my job as a parent because for some reason my child wanted to drugs and knew where to get them. (Where would I be when my child was around 30 year olds? Why would he have money for drugs that I did not know about?) My children, my responsibility.

I never claimed that drug dealers were fine upstanding members of society however I am sure some of them probably are. Can you see behind closed doors? And of course I don't want my neighbors to have a meth lab. If they did I'd be the first one working to get them out of my neighborhood. Just because I feel that people no longer want to be accountable for their actions and just misplace blame to diminish their responsibility does not mean I support drugs/drug dealers.

I don't use drugs nor do I agree that is a healthy lifestyle but I am saying you cannot blame drug dealers. People make their own decisions and need to be held accountable for their actions. You can't blame one source of the problem because that will NEVER solve the problem.

So, Smokey, where do you think the drugs that the "peers" are sharing come from?  Knock on wood, that my children have never tried drugs.  But I think that it's luck of the dice.  There are plenty of kids out there who come from a good background that do use drugs.  Little kids.  I know adults who started using drugs at 12 and 13.  I think that's heartbreaking.  Drug dealers are not discreet.  There is no sign on their door saying "We ID".  I'd be pissed at the cashier who sold my child booze too.  There are regulations on that though, so it's the "adults" again, who are willing to go into the store and buy booze for the child.  Those people are no better than the drug dealer. 

Drug Dealers suck, I have no problem putting my nose in the air at them.  They aid and abet those that are weak in order to keep themselves in dope and cash.  Hang em!!  On this subject.....YES, I'm extremely closed minded on this subject.  Keep the drug dealers in prison, educate the addict.