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I saw an episode on I believe Nat Geo's "Drugs, Inc." about how Mexico has become a major heroin producer.
1 posted on 02/02/2015 12:31:30 PM PST by C19fan
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When the poppy plants finish flowering about three months into the winter growing season, a farmer armed with a razor-sharp, thumb-scorer and a metal scraping pan can collect 300 grams of opium paste, worth 4,000 pesos (more than $275 USD), in a single day.

Only liberals think you can successfully fight the law of supply and demand.

2 posted on 02/02/2015 12:52:01 PM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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So what? Of what value are heroin addicts? They aren't Republicans, let alone Conservatives. Entirely expendable.

They can't handle reality, so they kill themselves. They break into houses, and democrats lose property, or the addicts get shot. Either way...

Cleaning things up when they are dead is why the cops earn the big bucks.

3 posted on 02/02/2015 12:55:10 PM PST by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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As long as their is money to be made...


4 posted on 02/02/2015 1:03:56 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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Surprised Michelle isn’t growing these in the white house garden for daddy and friends.


6 posted on 02/02/2015 1:04:15 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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***poppy farmers so poor they live in wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.****

America’s Libs should DEMAND that the heroin suppliers and sellers pay their growers a LIVING WAGE!

After all, they demand Sears, Penneys, Walmart, and others force Bangladeshi sweat shop owners pay their garment workers decently!


8 posted on 02/02/2015 1:15:35 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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“wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.” Boo f’in hoo...

My 1st husband always said hardcore drug addiction was a self-cancelling problem, and didn’t see why so much money and time was devoted to stopping the unstoppable-I’ve always thought he was right-I don’t like my tax dollars wasted on an exercise in futility year after year.

BTW, lots of farmers and even people with town-type jobs in remote areas live like that right here in the US-areas of Alaska, where the ground never thaws so you can dig for a septic system, for instance. There are people living in shacks of all kinds right here, by choice-some to save money, others because they don’t want to miss the extras when the SHTF-but they do have electricity, wood stoves and septic tanks...


9 posted on 02/02/2015 1:15:45 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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The multibillion-dollar Mexican opium trade starts here, with poppy farmers so poor they live in wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.

It may or may not be a surprise to you to find out that is how most of the worlds population lives.

11 posted on 02/02/2015 1:40:19 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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