Senior Citizen Drug Dealers??

I've been hearing about drug dealers using seniors to smuggle drugs through customs. Which is pretty despicable. I'm guessing they figure since senior citizens are considered low threat and they won't search them as heavily as other people..... they won't see the drugs.

I don't think the seniors are aware they have these drugs. I think that the drug dealers are smuggling the drugs into the seniors things and then taking it back on the other side. Obviously some of them have been caught or we wouldn't know about it, but I would bet that it is still happening out there.

Double Jeopardy

I'm just going to take this time to talk about this country's (USA) Double Jeopardy legal system. Double Jeopardy says that a person can't be tried twice for the same crime........ no exceptions.

Some disadvantages to this system is that if someone is given a not guilty verdict, they can come out bragging about how they actually did the crime and still get off scott free!

There are advantages to this system though..... a person can't be continuously harassed about a crime! It makes the cops come up with all the evidence they can before they try someone. They can't try someone, fail, find more evidence, try them again, fail, get more evidence, try them again, etc. The cops would be looking at this one person so much that they would completely pass by other suspects! They would interpret all the evidence with the notion that he.... or she..... is guilty!

I think that it is better to have this system in place then not. This system protects the people under it. Sure there are downsides...... but this is the best system there is.

Tobacco companies graphic label requirement? How does that violate free speech?

As I understand it, the government is trying to require that the tobacco companies show graphic images on there adds. They (the government) hope that it will turn some people away from tobacco. I would like to know just how it violates free speech if it's the truth.

It's true that tobacco companies have the right to say whatever they want about their product but they should also have to say (and show) the harmful side of using tobacco. Just like drug companies are required to list all of the side effects of their medication on their adds, tobacco companies should also be required to show us what using tobacco can do to us.

I do think that fewer people would use the product if they did that because they would see before hand what kind of effect it has and they wouldn't have to find out later when it is much harder to quit. Tobacco companies make their money by taking advantage of us.

Even though I may have understood that story wrong my opinion still stands. We should make the tobacco companies show us the harmful side of their product before we start using it and then we can decide whether we want to do that to ourselves or not.