Authorities seized over $200 million in a single raid from a Mexican meth ring in 2007. I was sent this picture of the money stacked up, it weighed over two tons, but decided not to write up a post because of the age of the story. That’s a lot of money though and I’ve had a hard time shaking the image out of my thoughts. It is easy to focus scrutiny on the immediate and obvious damage of drug and alcohol abuse; overdose, crime, neglect/abuse, infidelity and violence, but rare is the mention of what these things have cancelled out.
What if the wife wasn’t a meth widow? What if the son wasn’t abused and grew up in a healthy environment? It’s downright depressing to think about what good could have come out of this $200 million dollars if it hadn’t been squandered on drugs.
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