Comments on: Former Escambia Businessmen Sentenced To 20 Years On Federal Spice, Money Laundering Charges

By: M

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 03:59:48 +0000

if you’re asking if it’s ok you know it’s not!!!

By: Blame and judge

Blame and judge — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:06:29 +0000

I did not know these men personally. But it seems as tho they being hated on bc they were successful and made plenty of money. Money the government will take now for their own. Alcohol kills people everyday, one way or another. How many innocent people and children die in car wrecks everyday bc they were hit by drunk driver? Who blames the alcohol distributer for that? Nobody! If hypocrits would look at the entire blame game, I’m sure the obvious is clear. One is no worse than the other. If u gonna judge one, why not judge them ALL?

By: Tabby

Tabby — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 10:05:22 +0000

@Rasheed Jackson, I hear what you say. I understand it. However, let me give you some perspective. A neighbor of mine had purchased a fine home on 5 acres with a pool. He was a good man. Retired DOD official. Bad gambler. Had it so bad, he would go to Atmore (ATMORE !!) for days on end. No food or sleep. Sickening. He was in trouble with credit card companies and about to lose his home. I saw random folks at his home leaving with a riding mower, a generator, etc. So my husband spoke with him and purchased an 40×80 metal building that had not yet been put together for $1,200. Very cheap. We thought, “why not, if not us, it’ll be someone”. Can you see the correlation ? No. I suppose most of the contracted workers at Plant Crist are the dregs of society because during the time these guys were making this stuff, a majority of contracted workers were smoking this stuff otj. Seen it myself. I do agree it’s a horrible nasty drug though.

By: Robert Bruner

Robert Bruner — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 09:24:27 +0000

They did ask the gov’t if what they were doing is legal. They said yes. If you ask law enforcement if you can do something and they say yes you should not be able to be arrested and sent to prison for doing it. Is spice bad? Sure. SO is alcohol and cigarettes. “officer, can I fish here and keep the fish I catch? Sure. Thank you. Now here’s your ticket”. Ridiculous.

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 01:25:32 +0000

Re:steve, I hear what you are saying and yes they invented and different version of what was illegal so they could sell a product that was not illegal and they kept in touch with DEA to talk about what they were doing to make sure they were working within the Laws. They were not nefariously hiding anything about what they were doing and they have cooperated with LE at every step along the way as far as I know.

By: JGTG

JGTG — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:35:49 +0000

The law banning spice was approved by Congress 2011 a year before these clowns started selling the spice they were making. Barack Obama signed the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act in 2012. So it wasn’t overnight and they knew what they were doing. Any addiction comes at a cost to individuals who are addicts and the families who love them. Most of the time the addicts do not realize what they are doing to themselves and their families. So these so called business men just put a very addictive bomb into the laps of unknowing individuals who happen to possibly have generations of family histories of various types of addictions. That is not okay. And it is not okay to keep changing up the recipe to avoid detection and prosecution. Bottom line is they knew what they were doing was not legal. They did it anyway. Now they are paying the price.

By: paul

paul — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:13:54 +0000

money+free will+human suffering = you do the math

By: Rasheed Jackson

Rasheed Jackson — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 22:34:42 +0000

Are you kidding me? People are actually trying to defend these purulent pockets of society. “He was a good man who created job, a family man”. Yes and he didn’t care who he hurt in the process of being a “successful businessman”. People who use these drugs are the dregs of society, and many times they pull their children into the filth and darkness they live in. Many are mentally deficient due to over use of drugs and alcohol and their children suffer. I don’t see how a descent, compassionate, caring, and upstanding “family man” could be a part of an industry that does nothing but destroys people’s lives. And to call a person who deals in this type of crime a “capitalist” is a stretch of the term and a slam on capitalism. Capitalizing on one’s misfortune, weakness, or vulnerability is not capitalism. These individuals are not good people they are the purulence of society and need to be treated as such.

By: No Excuses

No Excuses — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 22:10:27 +0000

@ William Livingston,

They won’t get a cushy federal prison. None of them are cushy, but with a 20 year sentence, they will go behind the fence for a good part of that at an FCI. No camps for these dudes.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:46:02 +0000

To William and Henry, The drugs they were selling were part of a drug that they kept changing the formula to keep the DA And state offices from outlawing that particular drug. They would twik some chemical here and there to make a new one that did the same thing.
I watched a documentary on it. They KNEW what was going on was just a matter of time [before the laws change to outlaw them. But they kept on doing it.
Then the law makers got smart and outlawed any and all types that fit in that category.
Also the drug they selling is far worse and addictive than most drugs out there.
It causes all kind of brain issues way after people h ave stopped using it.
And during use it causes rage and delusions and unlike MJ the high does not last very long and they need to smoke it all day to stay high.

I am for MJ being legal.. And if you could contain it to just the person using I would not care if they main lined heroin. But often times there is family and children involved and it destroys the family and causes greater problems as the kids grow up and have trouble with the same…
BUT 20 years when rapist and far worse crimes getting lesssssssss….. NAH… 5 year sentence with 4 years on house arrest, loss of all money involved, pay into a drug rehabilitation fund and community service… Also to never be allowed to sell any type of drug or supplies…