A work in progress:
This Tweet popped up on my Tweeter feed this morning, Friday, January 17, 2019. An article reporting the seizing of 700 pounds of cocaine along the Texas southern border as the smugglers escaped back into Mexico:
I’m here at the Texas border (with no barrier wall) where authorities just seized 700lbs of cocaine from drug smugglers who escaped into Mexico https://t.co/Oh2f0H7xfR— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) January 18, 2019
Now follow this Tweet thread for a first-hand account of the massive repercussions of the drug epidemic in the United States:
THREAD: I was a criminal defense attorney for almost 10 years, including working in 2 public defender’s offices.— Jeffrey Marty 🇺🇸 (@Jeffrey_Marty) January 11, 2019
Drugs or alcohol were involved in 90%+ of my cases, but they’re not counted that way.
Theft isn’t “heroin-addiction theft,” it’s called theft–but it’s for heroin.
