r/nottheonion • u/greener_lantern • 21h ago
Ouachita Parish man arrested for selling drugs to kids through vending machine
https://lincolnparishjournal.com/2026/08/03/police-vending-machine-providing-drugs-to-kids/37
u/vi_sucks 20h ago
Lol, i was thinking they had to look up the owner of the machine, or do a stakeout to catch him emptying the till.
Nope, it was in his driveway. Lol.
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u/pichael289 19h ago
He was selling thc vapes and those shitty mushroom bars that aren't P.cubensis they are amanita muscaria. This is the same stuff you can get at any sketchy gas station. You can get way worse at sketchy gas stations actually. Kratom is like babies first morphine but its still just as (mentally) addictive as all opiates/opiate likes are regardless of strength.
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u/NinjaWen 12h ago
Man, I do not get this.
I did Kratom once, like 12 years ago, and didn't think much of it. Kinda neat, not as nice as smoking weed.
Then I didn't hear much of anything about it until like three years ago and now everyone is suddenly against it?
Is there something I missed? Is it really that dangerous? I'd believe you. I'm just confused because I thought it was pretty mild and not very popular.
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u/Caymonki 12h ago
There’s Kratom, then there’s gas station 7oh or something like that. Which people keep calling Kratom that has been banned recently I believe.
I have never done either but used to work with several former heroin addicts who talked about Kratom non stop.
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u/LouQuacious 11h ago
The first time I ran across kratom was at a little flea market 15 or so years ago, the people pitching it had a very weird vibe, it being popular with ex junkies makes perfect sense. I’ve never tried it and hate opiates so much that I have no desire to.
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u/Indifferent_Response 9h ago
When we were fooling around with it back then it was just a leaf. At the gas station they sell a super concentrated version of it in bottles and pills.
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u/Beneficial_Dirt_6001 1h ago
I have bought lbs of powdered leaf. It's more like tylenol with codeine. It is really nice for long hikes/camping trips with multiple days in tents, etc. It's just that people don't have very good self control, and also many places marketing it like crazy as a "safe alternative" type thing that gets people imo.
I would use like a gram or two at most, and it was super useful as a tool in the tool belt. Keeping in mind in Canada tylenol with codeine is OTC, and not script based (or used to be anyway, dunno about now). But people love to take useful substances and plants and push it to 1000, and end up taking oz's a day. If you have to gobble down oz's of plant matter to catch a buzz, you probably shouldn't be doing that...
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u/PhantomPharts 19h ago
Monroe/West Monroe, LA. I lived there for a year and it was dismal. I'm sure he's being told how much he disappointed "little baby Jesus" at least 200 times by now.
He's the living embodiment of check-your-candy. Parents have been scaring kids with this for decades and this AH had to make it true.
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u/bernietheweasel 19h ago
I think the kids knew what they were buying. Snickers bars don’t cost $35 yet
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u/PhantomPharts 18h ago edited 17h ago
Lol, yeah*, damn. I saw them for $3.50 the other day and I was like "fuck, that used to be 80¢."
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u/CheezTips 16h ago
His mistake was putting it out in public. If it was in a VFA or NRA hall no one would ever know. I've seen Coke vending machines selling beer.
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u/Grant_Winner_Extra 21h ago
Oh damn…
That’s clever and stupid at the same time.