Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Court Finds Vet Guilty of Illegal Ketamine Use

Court Finds Vet Guilty of Illegal Ketamine Use, Orders No Punishment

One more chapter in the neverending Ketamine saga.
The point is pretty simple: instead of putting up any serious fight against drug traffic and abuse, especially in heroin, Russia's drug enforcement agency, the Gosnarkokontrol, headed by Putin's ex-KGB crony Mr. Cherkesov, stages spectacular but useless showdowns on individual vets, using Ketamine for operations on cats and dogs.

It's perfectly clear to anyone involved in this witch hunt, that none of those veterinars was ever involved in illegal drug trafficking (neither were they ever charges with selling that substance to human addicts). If the authorities were ever planning to eradicate Ketamine use by humans in Russia, they should go after actual dealers and smugglers, not vets. But this is the typical KGB-style handling of problems - reporting activities is far more important, than any tangible results.

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