In some perverted effort to combat drug crimes, Chicago Alderman Robert Fioretti has advanced a proposal to ban sales of small plastic zip lock plastic bags.
Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) persuaded the Health Committee to ban possession of “self-sealing plastic bags under two inches in either height or width,” after picking up 15 of the bags on a recent Sunday afternoon stroll through a West Side park.
There's also this priceless "Think of the children!" quote from Lt. Kevin Navarro of the CPD's Narcotics and Gang Unit:
“We see these bags on a daily basis in the street. …We worry every day that little children are coming by and picking them up…They don’t get 100 percent of the drug out. There will usually be some residue in there. That’s the scary part about these bags,” Navarro said.
There would be a $1500 fine for selling the baggies.
What kind of impact do they think this will have on the drug trade in Chicago? Will dealers suddenly give up selling drugs because they don't have neat baggies to sell their drugs in? Will drug users stop buying because their drugs come in sandwich bags or sealed cigarette cellophanes?
It would be interesting to see if bead shops suddenly get busted, or if they start becoming hot spots for dealers in the know to still get their bags when the headshops stop carrying them.
These baggies are sometimes actually very useful. I have lots of different interests - psychedelic theory, feminism, literature, music... and one of my interests is ski jumping. I'm totally in love with ski jumping hills and I climb them, I have been to the top of 187 ski jumps (btw, do you perhaps know how many psychedelic sessions might Timothy Leary have had? My goal is to climb more hills than that number, or at least 1000 hills :P). And once, on a medium-sized hill in Villach (Austria), I found a little piece with a logo that hangs at the end of the zipper in Meininger ski jumping suits. Some jumper must have lost it... It's a very curious keepsake, so at home I washed it, put it into a "dealpack" (as those drug baggies are called in Poland) and stuck the baggie to the inner side of the cover in my first album with photos of jumping hills. "Dealpacks" can have lots of different uses... ;)
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