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Tiny plastic bags used to sell small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs would be banned in Chicago, under a crackdown advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee.
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.
Lt. Kevin Navarro, commanding officer of the Chicago Police Department’s Narcotics and Gang Unit, said the ordinance will be an “important tool” to go after grocery stores, health food stores and other businesses. The bags are used by the thousand to sell small quantities of drugs at $10 or $20 a bag.
Next up: In a bold move to prevent gun related deaths, holsters will be banned. Plus, lighters will be made illegal to prevent the underage from smoking. What other brilliant ideas can you come up with to equal this obvious way to end the scourge of drugs!
That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.
Sorry I would sell you this crack but I can’t get bags anymore so I’m closing up shop.
So, so stupid.
It is a good idea but not one that can provide intended results. It will just drive the sale of these bags underground. Prices of the bags will go up into the stratosphere. There would be bag related shootings in our parks, street corners, etc.
Just antother stupid thing Chicago does… Now all the grocery stores just outside of Chicago will have to stock extra plastic bags.
So, if I work on electronics, and I have small bags full of caps and chips, could I be arrested for possession of plastic bags?
This is profoundly stupid, and will end up filling prisons with the innocent and the less than dangerous. In other words, another day in the Drug War.
Ceran wrap and a twist tie. cheap replacement.
If you ban motorized vehicles, you could potentially stop drinking and driving. Plus it would also reduce our need for foreign oil. Two birds with one stone.
Ban Condoms to reduce AIDS? Oh wait… Maybe it’s Ban Alcohol to reduce AIDS, Abortion and DUI…. I bet no one has tried that.. When will government learn laws don’t change addictive behavior.
If any of you have ever bought drugs before these little self sealing bags came around then you know what the dealers will do.
In the old days dealers would take a regular size sandwich bag and cut a triangle out of the bottom corners, add drugs and then tie the open top corners together. It works great.
We could also place cameras on web pages.
Container Store sells those bags. I use ’em to hold all the bits for board games.
Maybe dealers will now start selling drugs in those little decorative plastic boxes instead. That’d be nice.
What’s even sadder is the police officer who thinks this will actually help!
Lt. Kevin Navarro said the ordinance will be an “important tool” to go after grocery stores, health food stores and other businesses.
Let’s face it, they are the real criminals here.
This is why photography has gone digital.
In the old, film days the empty film canisters were used hold the stash.
See, we all benefit in some way! 🙂
better ban balloons while you’re at it!
Over the years I’ve seen all the alternatives the other posters mention (I still have some film cannisters somewhere – awfully useful). In addition, I’ve seen tinfoil wraps, heat-sealed vacuum bags, and even one supplier who sells grass in little plastic tupperware containers. In these days of endless packaging options, I don’t see how banning one of them is going to stop folks selling the product inside.
Ultimate Fail
How on earth did these dumbbells ever become elected officials? A 12 year old has better sense than them!
When they finally work their way to the top you get another fricken G.W. Bush. Hey, if you’re unreliable, lazy, and too dumb to get a cushy real job, become a politician. It pays well and you can be as dumb ass as you want and still have a shot at being President of the GOUSA.
Some day God is going to tell next Bushwhacker or Obomba or Hillarious that there are WMD’s in Canada. Geez, you have 1000’s of us citizens that are smarter than Einstein. Why not pick from them?
How dare you oppose this well-intentioned law? You guys are clearly drug dealers.
So banning the sale of certain bags isn’t going to reduce drug use much. What’s the downside? That local merchants will no longer profit from the drug trade?
The same thing happened with scotch-brite pads when the crack epidemic was at its peak.
#17 – “How on earth did these dumbbells ever become elected officials?”
It’s Chicago. Real elections don’t exist there. Mayor Daley anyone?
#9
In the old days they would take a square piece of glossy paper (often the middle of a centerfold) and fold it up into a little envelope.
They called it a bindle.
Ok…Shut down all the luxury car, electronic goods, houses, condos industries and anything else that the rich drug lords would want to spend their ill gotten gains on…
…that ought to do it! What use is money on a desert island.
Or…
A) Figure out why these people don’t have a life worth living sober… (Nah…who cares?)
B) Make all the drugs legal and the government sells it so cheap the drug lords don’t have a market… (Prohibition?)
C) Have the penalty of failing a drug test the same as possession of the drug. (Hmmmm)
D) Get rid of all the lawyers…
I think “D” has merit!
Cheers
My gal’s gonna be miffed when she can’t get those little ziplock bags to put her custom made lampwork glass bead jewelry in to sell. Those earrings are gonna look funny in sandwich bags. I guess I’ll have to print her some safety stickers for the bags that say “Do Not Eat. Not a food product” to keep retards like the folks who make these rules from chomping on glass beads.
#5 A technician friend of mine uses old peanut cans for small electronic parts and cabinet screws. You do gotta wash ’em first though. And they’re hard to carry in your pocket.
I think Chicago tried this in the 90’s with glass viles. This is equivalent to LA banning spray paint cans to sale to minors.
“Ceran wrap and a twist tie. cheap replacement.”
Not a replacement. It is the main thing that is used by the dealers.
Wanna have some fun? I live in south suburbs of Chicago and if you twist up some plastic wrap and leave it in the street. You’ll get see a bunch of reach down to check to if maybe there is still some in it. What fun…
Any who, just a see look we is working, do nothing ordinance. Same old same old.
Make sure your name doesn’t end up on the DEA National Baggie List. You’ll never get to go inside a Chicago grocery store again.
#20 We have real elections here. It is the counting that isn’t real… Keep up the comments and your street won’t get plowed.
Good thing I don’t live in Chicago, because I use these bags for my Fishing Hooks and Weights… The druggies will just use something else like Saran Wrap or aluminum foil that you can get at most Restaurants..
Reminds me of the time Pulp (British “indy” band from Sheffield) released a single named “Sorted for Es and Wizz”. The sleeve notes contained origami diagrams of how to make a wrap to hold your substance of choice.
http://www.acrylicafternoons.com/sorted.html
The papers went bananas over it, calling for a ban. As if instructions on how to make a wrap could encourage drug use (without knowing what a wrap was actually for).
Whoever came up with this idea should be sacked.