Regarding the Dec. 8 guest editorial in The Sheboygan Press on medical marijuana: While there have been studies showing that marijuana can shrink cancerous tumors, medical marijuana is essentially a palliative drug. If a doctor recommends marijuana to a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy and it helps them feel better, then it's working. In the end, medical marijuana is a quality of life issue best left to patients and their doctors. Federal bureaucrats waging war on non-corporate drugs contend that organic marijuana is not an effective health intervention. [continues 116 words]
Mark Ruddy and Roberta Wegner are to be commended for making the case for drug and alcohol treatment in their Nov. 27 op-ed, "For addicts, treatment trumps jail." A study conducted by the RAND Corporation found that every additional dollar invested in substance abuse treatment saves taxpayers $7.48 in societal costs. There is far more at stake than tax dollars. The drug war is not the promoter of family values that some would have us believe. Children of inmates are at risk of educational failure, joblessness, addiction and delinquency. Not only do the children lose out, but society as a whole does too. Incarcerating nonviolent drug offenders alongside hardened criminals is the equivalent of providing them with a taxpayer-funded education in anti-social behavior. Turning drug users into unemployable ex-cons is a senseless waste of tax dollars. [continues 69 words]
This month marks 75 years since America repealed its disastrous alcohol Prohibition. Toast! Prohibition was the work of the early 20th century progressives' grand social engineering agenda. It failed miserably. The great social critic, H.L. Mencken, wrote of prohibition: "Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: They have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished." [continues 458 words]
Guess Editorial An interesting sidelight from Election Day 2008 is what happened up the road and over the pond in Michigan, where 63 percent of voters approved the removal of state penalties for registered patients who buy, grow or use small amounts of marijuana for medical purposes. Michigan thus becomes the eighth state where a ballot initiative has OK'd the use of marijuana for therapeutic purposes. Legislatures in four other states have enacted medical marijuana laws, so nearly a quarter of the country has moved in this direction. [continues 270 words]
The "Wasted in Wisconsin" series about drunken driving raises three points: 1) Drinking is an addiction. Driving is not an addiction, drunken or not. It is a choice. When a person with previous drunken driving arrests drinks and drives, it is an act of irresponsibility and defiance and should be punished. 2) Drinking kills people. Every day and everywhere, it results in lethal diseases, trauma and death. But it is legal to sell, buy and drink alcohol. Marijuana is also dangerous but illegal to buy, own and consume. Why is there this discrepancy? Should both be legal or both be illegal? [continues 93 words]
On Nov. 4, Michigan became the 13th state to legalize medical marijuana when 63% of its voters approved a grassroots-supported ballot initiative. Now, a quarter of all Americans live in a medical marijuana state. But even though 80% of Wisconsin residents approve of legalizing medical marijuana for seriously ill patients, the state does not allow voters to ratify a program through the ballot initiative process, as Michigan did. Instead, medical marijuana supporters must urge the state Legislature to pass a bill in both houses that also would be supported by the governor. [continues 384 words]
A Shepherd Q&A With High Times Editor David Bienenstock People have been smoking pot ever since they discovered that sparking one was good clean fun. So why do we need The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Handbook, published just in time for the holidays? Editor David Bienenstock explains that even an experienced stoner could learn a few things-as well as get involved in the larger marijuana movement to make pot smoking legal, especially for those who are chronically ill. [continues 2509 words]
It is clear Wisconsin must be tougher on drunken driving and on the dysfunctional way alcohol saturates our culture. All of our families have been wrenched directly or indirectly by these problems. But rather than demanding prison time to appear tough, we need to be smart on crime: Give judges a well-equipped toolbox to set up an array of disciplines and supports that can result in real change by offenders. Drunken driving and other forms of alcohol and drug abuse are only symptoms. Addiction is the cause. The only humane and effective solution is to treat this disease. [continues 507 words]
On Nov. 4, voters in the state of Michigan overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1, making Michigan the 13th U.S. state to protect patients using medical marijuana from arrest and jail. In the process, Michigan voters saw through the lies and fear mongering of the opposition, including federal, state and local officials, and instead chose compassion and scientific fact. IMMLY salutes Michigan voters for their compassionate decision. We believe that if the Wisconsin Constitution allowed citizens to place initiatives on the ballot, like Michigan and some other states, medical marijuana would easily pass in Wisconsin. Polling has established strong popular support for medical cannabis in Wisconsin, and without an initiative process, state residents must depend on state lawmakers to reflect that public support. [continues 167 words]
An interesting sidelight from Election Day 2008 is what happened up the road and over the pond in Michigan, where 63 percent of voters approved the removal of state penalties for registered patients who buy, grow or use small amounts of marijuana for medical purposes. Michigan thus becomes the eighth state where a ballot initiative has OK'd the use of marijuana for therapeutic purposes. Legislatures in four other states have enacted medical marijuana laws, so nearly a quarter of the country has moved in this direction. [continues 270 words]
Tickets to see Cheech and Chong's "Light Up America" show at Oneida Casino? Thirty dollars. Decades of efforts by educators, D.A.R.E. programs, social workers and parents to warn youth of the dangers of illegal drugs? Useless. Jenny Thompson Suamico [end]
Dear Editor: One of the hallmarks of the Bush administration has been creating and maintaining its own alternate reality on seemingly most, if not all, issues. Continuing to maintain the legal fiction that cannabis is an evil Schedule 1 drug with a high potential for abuse and no medical use was one facet of this policy. With his landslide victory, President-elect Barack Obama has both the political capital and the opportunity to start with a blank slate. Two statewide marijuana ballot initiatives even outpolled Obama. Michigan voters legalized medical marijuana by a 63 percent margin, and marijuana decriminalization passed in Massachusetts by a 68 percent margin. Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, sponsor of federal legislation that would decriminalize possession of marijuana nationwide (Rep. Tammy Baldwin is a co-sponsor), depicted the current situation as "a case of people being ahead of the politicians." [continues 81 words]
There Is No Bad Time To Talk With Children About The Dangers Of Substance Abuse, Experts Say Alcohol abuse remains the top health issue in the community, according to the 2007-2009 Life in Marathon County report, though drug counselors and police have long said that drugs are a prevalent problem for adults and children. There were 58 juvenile drug arrests in the county in 2006, according to the report. During the 2007-08 school year, the D.C. Everest, Merrill and Mosinee public school districts expelled a combined 30 students for incidents involving drugs. [continues 331 words]
Charging drug dealers with reckless homicide (beyond drug dealing charges) is a strange concept. It's just another example of the haphazard approach of the "justice" system. Assuming the customers who would "line up at noon" to buy drugs from Ian Kies at an East Side tavern were consenting adults (a whole different issue), why is he more responsible for an overdose than the customers who actually consumed the drugs? Because in our blame game society, those people are dead, so who is left to pin it on? This brings into question why gun dealers and bar owners or bartenders are not targeted more when someone dies from these things. I say follow the money. It's because there is no drug dealer lobby (yet). Joe Usher Middleton [end]
Wisconsinites hoping to legalize medical marijuana are looking to Michigan to set an example. A Michigan proposition letting people with serious or terminal illnesses use marijuana with a doctor's order passed with a two-thirds majority in Tuesday's election. Michigan joins 12 other states allowing the use of so-called medical marijuana. Federal law still prohibits use of the drug in all circumstances. Gary Storck is director of the nonprofit group Madison NORML. He says Michigan could lead the way for the other Great Lakes states. The Wisconsin Nurses Association and the Wisconsin Public Health Association favor legalizing medical marijuana. [end]
Proposition OK'd Tuesday in Michigan GREEN BAY -- People who support using marijuana for medical purposes in Wisconsin hope a Michigan proposition could have a ripple effect in the Badger state. Advertisement On Election Day, a two-thirds majority in Michigan voted for the proposition, which would allow people with serious or terminal illnesses to use marijuana if certified by a doctor. The law allows patients to possess 2.5 ounces of marijuana; they would receive a state ID card. The law only recognizes patients with identification cards or their equivalent given out by states that also allow medical marijuana. [continues 171 words]
Nearly a year after Mark Tobin was killed in his rural New Glarus home, Green County detectives remain baffled about who murdered him but certain about why he was killed. Thursday, in the first few details revealed about the unsolved case, Tobin was described as a large-scale marijuana grower who cultivated and harvested a layered "grow" in a two-story garage next to his home six miles west of New Glarus. The background of the killing remains secret, however, as detectives will not disclose how Tobin, 38, was killed. A search warrant from last year remains sealed, and a $10,000 reward put up by Tobin's businessman father remains unclaimed. [continues 504 words]
Drug customers looking for heroin, cocaine or OxyContin could usually find Ian Kies on a stool in an East Side Madison tavern from which police said he ran his business. An informant told police that he regularly saw a dozen or more customers line up around noon in a bar just off Atwood Avenue, waiting for Kies to arrive with narcotics concealed in a secret Velcro-fastened pouch under the brim of his black baseball cap, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court. [continues 675 words]
On Tuesday, more than nine months after a crash on a snowy highway that killed his fiancee, John H. Harrison Jr. will likely become the first person in Dane County to be convicted of a drugged driving homicide. The law under which the 18-year-old man was charged in May, five months after the death of Courtney Kuenzi-Kessenich, 17, was itself born from tragedy in 2003. But some lawyers contend the law is unfair because it says that finding even the slightest detectable amount of a drug that could impair driving is enough to prove a driver is guilty of driving under the influence, the same as a driver caught driving with too much alcohol in the blood. [continues 1275 words]
A low-profile team of drug police in Madison is getting some extra attention. Bolstered by record seizures of heroin and illegal pills -- plus the rare interception of opium-soaked wood chips from Laos -- the Dane County Narcotics and Gang Task Force has been named Wisconsin's top Drug Unit of the Year. Believing anonymity helps them do their jobs better and more safely, members of such drug units are cautious about identifying themselves and revealing many details about how cases are solved. [continues 1136 words]
Local law enforcement officials are concerned a reduction in funds for the West Central Drug Task Force will hinder drug enforcement activities in the region. A 2009 Eau Claire County budget proposal doesn't replace money lost by the task force through shrinking state and federal grants. The proposal amounts to a cut of $38,600 for the drug unit, area law enforcement officials say, at a time when more resources are needed to fight illegal drug trafficking and use in west-central Wisconsin. [continues 462 words]
Several nights of nearly around-the-clock surveillance by Columbia County Sheriff's Department deputies paid off Wednesday, when four people were arrested in connection with what Detective Lt. Roger Brandner called "the biggest drug case we have had in a number of years." Deputies recovered 75 marijuana plants in various stages of maturity, amounting to about 15 pounds of marijuana, with a street value of $1,200 to $1,500 per pound - a total of $18,000 to $22,500. [continues 669 words]
Before reading any further, please understand I do not encourage the misuse of drugs, nor am I trying to make an excuse for the behavior of those who do. I am simply trying to awaken a discussion in our community to help solve the issue of what to do about our county jail. It is obvious that something needs to be done about the numbers of individuals in our jail. It is also clear that our City Council wants to be progressive. The council made this clear with the smoke-free ordinance. So, to solve our problem, perhaps our City Council should study the possibility of decriminalizing marijuana to help free up jail space. [continues 198 words]
An enthusiastic crowd gathered under "Smoke 'em Bucky" banners for the 38th annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival in downtown Madison last weekend to protest the prohibition of marijuana and foster solidarity among fellow dissenters. The three-day-long festival began Friday night with a benefit concert at the Cardinal Bar and continued through the weekend. Speakers and bands vocalized their support Saturday in Library Mall to "end the war on drugs" and urged listeners to vote for change. Madison Police Lt. Joe Balles acknowledged marijuana smoking does go on at the event, and while the protesters have every right to assemble peacefully, he noted the act is still illegal. [continues 428 words]
The Theme of This Year's Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival in Downtown Madison Was "Vote." The 38th annual Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival attracted a large crowd this past weekend in downtown Madison to celebrate a common cause: their support for the legalization of marijuana. The festival began Friday at the Cardinal Bar with a medical cannabis benefit and continued through Sunday in Library Mall, with speakers, vendors, informational tables, displays and food carts. The festival ended Sunday with a parade to the Capitol, and a rally and concert at the Capitol Square. [continues 253 words]
President Bush and the two leading presidential contenders were urging lawmakers to take one for the good of the country Tuesday and pass a highly unpopular Wall Street bailout package. Some drug-reform advocates, meanwhile, were suggesting that a better way out of the current financial mess would be to toke one for the country. "Society could get a great deal of funding by bringing cannabis into our society," said Gary Storck, co-founder of the Madison chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. [continues 288 words]
School administrators can gain from a recent court decision some much-needed guidance on how to react to student voices they dislike. The good news for students -- and for all Americans -- is that this newest legal lesson supports more speech instead of more limits on student expression. A landmark 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision -- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, involving students and Vietnam War protest armbands -- put forth the idea that young citizens don't automatically surrender their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse door. [continues 392 words]
The program, known as Byrne Justice Assistance Grants, helps fund 18 drug task forces across Wisconsin and a community prosecutor program in Milwaukee, according to Dave Steingraber, executive director of the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance. Steingraber worries that those initiatives could be at risk after recent cuts to the federal grant program. Congress last year slashed the program's funding from $520 million to $170 million for fiscal year 2008. The impact is being felt nationwide, Steingraber said. In Wisconsin, if lawmakers don't act, some of the state's multijurisdictional drug units might have to shut down, he said. [continues 60 words]
Port Washington - Heroin is normally considered an urban drug. But Ozaukee County has had more than its share of heroin-related troubles in recent years, including several overdose deaths. And, according to recent court cases, so have Marinette County, population about 12,000, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. "If there is anyplace less likely than Ozaukee County to have a heroin problem, I would have guessed it would be Marinette" and the Upper Peninsula, Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Joseph D. McCormack said when he sentenced two women from that area on heroin-trafficking charges. [continues 583 words]
Even after a year, Debra Hensch still misses the nightly phone calls from her son. Another man gave Brian D. Johns, 35, a prescription drug that was prescribed for someone else on Aug. 30, 2007. Johns took the medication and died later that night. But the man who provided the drug that killed Johns won't stand trial for his death - only for supplying Johns with the drug. Wisconsin has the Len Bias law, which allows prosecutors to charge any individual who sells or distributes a schedule I or II drug to a person who ends up dying as a result of the drug with first-degree reckless homicide. But the drug Johns took, Suboxone, does not fall into either category. [continues 570 words]
Illegal Stop, Search Lead To Dismissed Case RACINE -- The Racine County Sheriff's Department made two costly mistakes when deputies arrested a man for marijuana possession and manufacturing in October 2006, according to court rulings. Those mistakes - an unlawful traffic stop based on a cell phone call and search of the contents of a digital camera and GPS device found after the arrest - have forced the District Attorney's Office to drop all six charges against the suspect. Dean Brown, 39, was arrested Oct. 13, 2006, after Racine County deputies caught up with him following a cell phone call from a driver who believed Brown was acting suspiciously, possibly trespassing. The deputy who made the traffic stop reportedly smelled raw marijuana in the car and searched the vehicle. In the car, the deputy allegedly found garbage bags full of marijuana plants. In total, deputies allegedly recovered nearly 36 pounds of marijuana with a possible street value as high as $140,000. [continues 481 words]
Dear Editor: It was preposterous to include "marijuana plants growing in a back yard" among a sampling of police calls to properties on West Main and West Doty that were apparently meant to depict genuine threats to public safety ("Despite recent murder, residents still committed to Bassett neighborhood," Aug. 20). Cannabis plants do not push past people to gain access to secure buildings or drunkenly bang on doors, nor do they murder people. Cannabis is not part of why this area is troubled. And far too often, the only mention of marijuana in the media is in a negative manner, as in your unwarranted linkage to violent incidents. [continues 148 words]
Waukesha - A former downtown business owner convicted of selling marijuana from his candle shop was sentenced Wednesday to 1 1/2 years in prison. While he was the owner of Candles for You, 744 N. Grand Ave., James W. Juhay sold marijuana to an undercover officer three times in June, according to the criminal complaint. Police searched the store June 19, and nearly 400 grams of marijuana, about 95 grams of what was possibly hashish and a digital scale were recovered. [continues 248 words]
As Eau Claire County Sheriff Ron Cramer was leaving a restaurant Thursday night, a man approached him and proudly told the sheriff he had been clean and sober for four months. He thanked Cramer for his help. "It's a good feeling that they want to share their success stories with you," Cramer said. Several law enforcement officials from around the Chippewa Valley met last week, and they talked about which drugs are hot and which are not, Cramer said. The consensus was that methamphetamine use is down but that other drugs are taking its place. [continues 733 words]
Kids from drug-infested homes often start their lives in the bottom of the ninth, down by five runs and with two strikes against them. Their odds aren't good. We've gotten a glimpse into that world in recent days, most graphically in the story of Jessica Kasten -- the Wausau woman convicted of letting one of her children die of suffocation as she slept. Her family, who spoke at length with a Daily Herald reporter, said Kasten's own upbringing in a home rife with drugs and alcohol didn't give her a good start in life. [continues 484 words]
I usually ignore the crude, juvenile and asinine musings of the "Argus" column that regularly appears in your publication. But trying to make a stupid joke at the expense of California medical marijuana dispensary owner Charles Lynch, on trial and facing federal mandatory minimums, was the last straw. Argus doesn't bother to note that Mr. Lynch was in full compliance with California law. Or that county sheriff's deputies sworn to uphold California law instead obtained fake ID and lied to acquire real doctor's notes to infiltrate the dispensary and set up the federal bust. [continues 139 words]
Medical marijuana dealer Charlie Lynch went on trial in Los Angeles Friday. It's taking awhile to impanel a jury. As soon as potential jurors hear that the guy is on trial for selling medical marijuana, they take out their wallets and get in line. [end]
Agency Reviewing Trip by Addicts From St. Croix Boot Camp Facility Madison - Five state correctional officers - with the approval of their bosses - took 22 inmates from a boot camp for alcoholics and drug addicts to see a motivational speaker at a venue where alcohol was served to other patrons. An internal investigation of the matter is being conducted after a drug treatment counselor complained that allowing the inmates to get near alcohol was a setback to their treatment. The counselor, Mark Nelson, 47, of Prairie Farm, alleges he was pushed out of his job shortly after he filed his complaint about the incident. A Department of Corrections spokesman said officials did not retaliate against him. [continues 753 words]
Your otherwise excellent article on marijuana (Broadcaster, July 17) failed to mention two important points. The first is why marijuana was outlawed in the first place. There were two major reasons for the marijuana laws. The first was because "All Mexicans are crazy and marijuana is what makes them crazy." It was racial prejudice against Mexicans that used it. The second reason was the fear that heroin addiction would lead to the use of marijuana -- exactly the opposite of the modern gateway idea. [continues 112 words]
Police Say Pill Abuse Has Kept Opiate Minimal The availability of narcotics in central Wisconsin has prevented heroin abuse from becoming a serious problem, but local drug counselors and law enforcement agencies are keeping a wary eye. Heroin is an opiate drug, a group of substances that also includes common painkillers hydrocodone (Vicodin) and oxycodone (OxyContin). OxyContin was the target of several high-profile robberies at Wausau-area drugstores during the past year. Area cash advance stores also were robbed, often to pay for drugs, police said. [continues 312 words]
Federal charges against 27 people in a suburban heroin ring that led to five fatal overdoses - four in Waukesha County - may have temporarily crimped trade in the drug, but more distributors are ready to step in, law enforcement officials warn. Of those charged, according to documents unsealed last week, at least 10 are from or have a close tie to the village of Pewaukee, Police Capt. Tim Otto said. In the last year, seven heroin overdoses have occurred in the village of 9,000, three of which were fatal, he said. But only one of those fatal overdose investigations, he said, found a link to the ring that was recently busted. [continues 690 words]
I am disgusted to read that La Crosse County Assistant District Attorney Brian Barton is not commenting on the Nov. 20 case involving the discovery of a half-ton of marijuana in a semi-trailer. Is it because it is highly unlikely that anyone will ever be convicted at either the local, state or federal level for this serious crime? It sounds like a good idea for a video game. See how many tons of marijuana you can haul across the country without being busted. [continues 168 words]
Six people were arrested last weekend for drug violations during the Effit musical festival, Jackson County Sheriff Duane Waldera said Tuesday. Marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, money and vehicles were seized, Waldera said, but he would not specify the amounts. A total of 31 traffic stops resulted in 32 traffic citations, 28 equipment repair orders, 18 warnings, eight marijuana citations, six drug paraphernalia citations and one citation each for underage drinking and possession of tobacco, Waldera stated. Authorities arrested the event goers on charges of possession and manufacturing with intent to deliver marijuana, LSD and Ecstasy, operating after revocation and possession of drug paraphernalia, but names were not released. They were arrested and cited during traffic stops in the towns of Garfield, Cleveland and Northfield and near Osseo, Wis. [continues 164 words]
MADISON -- Was an Arpin man growing cranberries or cannabis? A jury may have to decide whether Allen L. Oleson will lose his house, valued at $87,500, in a civil forfeiture lawsuit filed in federal court after a authorities found what they said is a marijuana-growing operation in his town of Hansen residence. According to documents filed in court: A first-floor room with black paper covering the windows, heavy duty grow lights, a plant watering system, a heat fan, fertilizer, cardboard pots, plus 28 ounces of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and marijuana stalks were found when Central Wisconsin Drug Taskforce members executed a Dec. 9, 2005, search of Oleson's 7199 Grant Rd. residence. [continues 262 words]
Fireworks glowed in the sky on a beautiful Fourth of July weekend evening at a gathering of friends in the hills and valleys of the Driftless Region. People sat in lawn chairs talking. Some drank beer or mixed drinks -- some water or soda. There was plenty of food. Children played and roasted marshmallows. On occasion, a small group of adults, young and old, would move away from others at the campfire and stand in a circle under a tree. A marijuana joint was lit, passed from person-to-person and finished. Then the people went back to the party. [continues 4014 words]
KIMBERLY -- Nearly 99 percent of Kimberly High School students randomly tested for drugs last year showed clean results. A three-year grant recently given to the Kimberly Area School District by the state Department of Public Instruction will try to assure that those high marks will continue. The Kimberly school board Monday night reviewed the results of the sixth year of the district's Operation Clean drug and alcohol prevention program. As part of Operation Clean, the school randomly chooses students for drug testing if they participate in cocurricular activities, have parking permits or participate in the Promise Makers organization. Promise Makers requires students to pledge abstinence from drugs and alcohol. [continues 159 words]
'Nothing Pressing' That Must Be Changed In Code DE PERE -- The first year of the De Pere School District's random drug policy appears to have helped curb the problems of drinking and drug use among students, school officials say. It's too early to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the policy, but De Pere High School Principal Annette Brace thinks the random tests, along with a host of other programming, is helping reduce drinking and drug use. "I believe that's what it's done," Brace said. [continues 422 words]
MANITOWOC -- When Joe Keil, a K-9 unit deputy with the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department, was training law enforcement officers to be Drug Recognition Experts, they ordered Chinese food. When the delivery driver walked into the room, one thing was evident to the officers within 10 seconds -- the driver was high on marijuana, Keil said. "He shows up at a class where there is 30 cops that are going to DRE school, and he has been smoking weed 10 minutes before and driving a car," Keil said. [continues 610 words]
JANESVILLE - The three cornerstones of Rock County's drug court are abstinence, honesty and responsibility. The mortar that holds them together is hope. "I'm cautiously optimistic that people who graduate will have a much better life," said Kate Buker, the Rock County assistant district attorney assigned to drug court. "I think this is helping people," said Judge Richard Werner, who presides over drug court. "Realistically, it's not going to work for everybody, but from my practical experience working here, it is helping people. [continues 803 words]
JANESVILLE - While marijuana and crack cocaine are the two most available and used drugs in Janesville, heroin has killed here. And smack regularly comes close to killing users, says Sgt. Stephen DeWitt, supervisor of the Janesville Police Department's Street Crimes Unit. Heroin has become more prevalent in Janesville, he said. "It seems like heroin skipped a generation," DeWitt said. "It was here in the '60s and '70s, and now it's back. We see a reported overdose every couple of weeks. There are people here who deal heroin. Most of the people who deal it are users. Rockford (Ill.) is the big supply." [continues 1187 words]
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