Thank you GregL, I'm glad there are people with rational reasoning still alive and well.

You can attack the drug dealers but that will never cause any long term solution. You can go and throw every dealer in town in jail and by the following week they will be replaced. There's alot of people willing to risk their freedom to make a few quick dollers. As long as you have drugs users you have people that will see an oppurtunity, and you will have drug dealers. The problem needs to be addressed at it's core, at the people that are using drugs. That does NOT mean I am sticking up for drug dealers. I have already posted that I don't think that is a health lifestyle or one I agree with but that point never seems to stick. All I am saying and have been saying is you cannot blame them for the decisions grown men and women make to use drugs.

Regardless, this whole blog has shown me that in a small town perhaps it is best to just smile and nod and keep your lips sealed. I am appauled by some of the comments directed at me and the anger/intent behind them. I am appauled that the same people who protested that there was no lynch mob mentality in this blogging env't are some of the same people attacking me. I am appauled that the people who claim to hold this blog medium to a hgh standard have nothing to say when someone is being spoken down to and disrespected.

OMG Smokey, get over it.  The original blog was about the guy getting arrested.  Great, if he is guilty I hope they keep him for a looooong while.  If he's innocent, then I hope the justice system works and he is set free. Hopefully, he will have learned a lesson and leave that lifestyle. 

WAWA - "If I had the misfortune of having such closeminded parents I think that I would have been driven to use drugs!  Thank God I was taught to think for myself."

Listen here "WAWA" ... I don't know what you think you are talking about but I happened to be Olivia's daughter. You know, the one you called "closed-minded" and you would have been driven to use drugs had she been your parent. How ridiculous are you? I'm her oldest and I have never had the urge to use any sort of drug ... at all (as with her other children). I've tried nothing. I've been pressured into nothing. That is something I take a lot of pride in and that is something I credit my mother with. Fortunately, I've had experiences in my life that made me choose my own path. That was a direct result from my mother's parenting. My mom is not closed-minded. My mother did her best to teach all her kids right from wrong. It is the child's decision to heed the advice of their parents. I chose to. Some don’t.

I have the same opinion of drug dealers as Olivia does. They chose this path due to money, addiction, and selfishness. Some blame lay with the addict as well. But the addict is just that … an ADDICT. Have you ever seen what addiction can do? Have you ever seen what addiction can do to a once fully functional human being? Apparently, you have not.

My mom has been trying to get me on here to blog for weeks but not until this a-hole came on here and made an obtuse comment against my mother had I actually wanted to post.

Wow, my little girl just used a $10.00 word. OBTUSE....jeeze now I have to google it. Better yet, I'll call her.  I'm proud of you.  Stillimcold!  How'd you like that bigdog?