Vermont

The state Vermont is home to 625,000 people and the capitol is Montpelier. In Vermont there are roughly 2,000 people currently in state prisons. The police, this year will make 3,800 arrests for drug charges and 2,900 for DUIs. The state of Vermont will also lose 175 people to alcohol use and 40 people will lose their lives from drug use.

With heroin being the biggest concern for all of Vermont, cocaine is the next, followed by methamphetamine. Meth is no very accessible and there have only been few meth laboratories found. Cocaine is being found all throughout the state and is being brought in by people who are obtaining their supply from Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. The crack version of cocaine is becoming popular and is being distributed by African-American violators who bring it in from New York and Massachusetts. Heroin is found in the quantity of street/users levels. The people who are selling the heroin are usually doing so in order to support their own habit.

Marijuana is the most commonly found and used drug throughout the state of Vermont. With the two interstate highways that end at the border traffickers are finding it easy to transport their supply from Canada and into Vermont. The traffickers are going so far as to even carry it in backpacks as they walk across the border.

Vermont is also home to 30,110 marijuana users, 13,200 people who abuse prescription drugs, 5,000 people who use some form of cocaine and 300 heroin addicts.  

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