I saw a headline today that Costa Rica seized over 2 tons of cocaine at sea, worth an estimated $208 million dollars. I immediately wondered what they were going to do with the cocaine. It reminded me of a little experience I had several months ago.
In the past, whenever I had leftover prescription drugs, I'd put them in a little box to save for our city's "Drug Turn-In Day" (I'd heard that you shouldn't just throw pills away). Well, I kept missing the turn-in days, so my pile of old prescription drugs just kept growing and growing. My sister finally told me that the whole point of not throwing them away was so they didn't end up in an addict's hands (not, as I'd assumed, because they would leech into the soil like old batteries), so she said I could just crush them up and bury them or throw them away with old food or whatever.
Most of my old pills were just random stuff like antibiotics or decongestants, but I did have a few bottles of narcotics. I've been prescribed narcotics twice in my life: once for a root-canal-needing tooth and once for having a large-headed baby. Each time I tried the narcotics, I had such a miserable experience that I refused to use any more of it. So I had nearly all the pills left.
Well, when I was crushing up and disposing of my leftover prescriptions, it felt weird discarding the narcotics. The reason it felt strange was because I knew they'd be worth hundreds of dollars on the street, so it somehow felt like throwing away money. Stupid, I know, because it would be illegal money, but it felt weird nonetheless.
So I wonder how Costa Rica feels throwing out $208 million dollars worth of cocaine. I mean, I know they can't keep / sell it, but...it would still feel weird, right?
In the past, whenever I had leftover prescription drugs, I'd put them in a little box to save for our city's "Drug Turn-In Day" (I'd heard that you shouldn't just throw pills away). Well, I kept missing the turn-in days, so my pile of old prescription drugs just kept growing and growing. My sister finally told me that the whole point of not throwing them away was so they didn't end up in an addict's hands (not, as I'd assumed, because they would leech into the soil like old batteries), so she said I could just crush them up and bury them or throw them away with old food or whatever.
Most of my old pills were just random stuff like antibiotics or decongestants, but I did have a few bottles of narcotics. I've been prescribed narcotics twice in my life: once for a root-canal-needing tooth and once for having a large-headed baby. Each time I tried the narcotics, I had such a miserable experience that I refused to use any more of it. So I had nearly all the pills left.
Well, when I was crushing up and disposing of my leftover prescriptions, it felt weird discarding the narcotics. The reason it felt strange was because I knew they'd be worth hundreds of dollars on the street, so it somehow felt like throwing away money. Stupid, I know, because it would be illegal money, but it felt weird nonetheless.
So I wonder how Costa Rica feels throwing out $208 million dollars worth of cocaine. I mean, I know they can't keep / sell it, but...it would still feel weird, right?