Could you please provide the exact locations, Kim?

Now Kim, its not on every corner! Roturd, are you looking for a buy or something? It wouldnt surprise me.

Every corner?

Not every corner some of them have been relocated to Webster Groves.

The only thing on every street corner is a Walgreens. I did not know that they were into crack and heroin.According to a really, really old commercial, their biggest items were motor oil and garden hoses.

Kim,
YOu have it ALL wrong. Now they will not be smoking crack at the table next to you. Thank god for the STLPD!

Here in Chicago, where the ban for bars is nearly two years old, they don’t go to corners anymore. They hang out in front of the bars waiting for smokers to come outside, along with the panhandlers and hookers. When the ban lobbyists said bans were good for business, they highly underestimated how good it would be. Chicago has an ordinance prohibiting people from congregating in front of bars, but the ban allows people to freely ignore it. Business is booming.

If the sale, possession, manufacturing, and use of tobacco were banned, the corner retailers of crack and heroin would also offer you black market cigarettes. It has been proven over and over that prohibitions don’t work. Not for alcohol, not for tobacco, and not for the other drugs. Recent history has shown that the more sensible approach of education and gradual social pressure has resulted in fewer smokers without the high societal costs of another prohibition, such as the war on drugs. Our policy towards drug use should be one of reducing harm. This could be done much more effectively through education, treatment, and social pressure than by spending billions to put people in prison. Jail has never cured an addiction.

Kim when was the last time you left your little corner of Webster Groves and went to city neighborhoods like Lafayette Square, Soulard, Dogtown?

I live in the city and if I walk around the corner I’m likely to only see my neighbors walking their dogs or someone heading down to the grocery store. Can’t say I EVER saw someone dealing drugs.

I’m not saying the city doesn’t have problems but a blanket statement like that only makes you look ignorant.

Kim,
Please understand that it is hard for anyone to take you seriously when you write your opinion of the city from Webster Groves. Nobody in St Louis city cares what someone from Webster Groves thinks. Take the tin foil hat off your head and come see what the city is all about. Maybe I could give you a walking tour of my neighborhood. On said walking tour, I can walk and you can ride in an armored vehicle next to me, that way you can spot and point out the ”crack and heroin dealers” on every corner, and point them out to me - after all, I’ve never noticed them! You should seriously be embarrassed that your letter made it to the paper, because it makes you look incredibly foolish.

Be sure to lock your doors tonight so the boogey man doesn’t get you.

Joey