In GAO sting operation.

The fake cops received $1.2 million worth of military-grade weaponry through the Pentagon’s apparently very lax 1033 program.

How did I not see this sooner?

And what a flattering statistic: Oklahoma ranks number one in milligrams of prescription opioids handed out per adult resident.

What’s the correct position on this?  Are current pain sufferers even aware of the life-ruining potential of the drugs they’re being prescribed?  Are the manufacturers liable? If they are, then so are the doctors.  But there must be an alternative to opioid-based painkillers, and and they should no longer be prescribed.  Cannabis-based painkillers have proven to be equally effective, without turning the user into a helpless, emaciated addict.  Strains of cannabis vary in strength, why not let pain sufferers grow their medicine at home?

The purported reason being that the judge doesn’t want children born under the influence of drugs.

To predict future criminals.

Apparently so.

Says the Instapundit Glenn Reynolds.

The seeds come from the opium poppy, and contain trace amounts of opium.

Doctors in the early 1800’s handed out opium like candy to their patients, as well as 10 million opium pills for Union soldiers during the Civil War.

Street cameras caught the whole thing.

On Reddit, until the forum was banned last week.