Frustrated residents say state’s focus on treatment has failed to stop supply of drugs devastating communities, where dealers are using short-term rentals as drug houses.
The gist is that the profits for selling drugs to Vermonters is high, and the supply of potential drug dealers is so vast, that we can spend a tremendous amount of money on cracking down on dealers and it won’t have a strong effect on supply.
This is also what I’ve heard from Burlington’s ex-police Chief, who you would expect would be gung-ho about arresting more drug dealers since his department has to deal with them every damn day.
To anyone thinking about why we are in the state we are in, there is an earlier Compass article that gives a potential answer:
https://open.substack.com/pub/compassvermont/p/the-paradox-how-vermont-cut-overdose
The gist is that the profits for selling drugs to Vermonters is high, and the supply of potential drug dealers is so vast, that we can spend a tremendous amount of money on cracking down on dealers and it won’t have a strong effect on supply.
This is also what I’ve heard from Burlington’s ex-police Chief, who you would expect would be gung-ho about arresting more drug dealers since his department has to deal with them every damn day.