On an international, industrial, scale. The Brits killed over 150 million Chinese with opium after fighting two wars to force China to continue to allow the importation of it. It's our turn to be the goose that la;ys the golden eggs for the globalists, that's all.
Anyone who doesn't believe it should consider the fact that four years after losing control of the Golden Triangle in SE Asia, the US moved into the Golden Crescent and did so nearly nine months before the Afganistan government asked the Soviets to come in and help them.
They had to ask for help because the US had begun providing arms not to anti-communists, they were a dime a dozen and only fought when the mood struck them. Instead, they provided money, guns, and transportation, to the opium growers who had been all but but out of business by the Afghan government cracking down on and the huge flow out of the Golden Triangle. It's no coincidence that after the US lost control of the Golden Triangle the next area that was "critical" just happened to be the Golden Crecent.
So, yell "conspiracy theory" or whatever else you like, but if you don't bother to research you're only fooling yourself. The US doesn't care about the international drug trade, siphons off a cut of that business at the wholesale end to fund all sorts of operations they wouldn't otherwise have money for, and until recently chose the markets for the major dealers to sell into limiting the total amount that came into the US to a fraction of the total volume.
Now, there's so much opium being grown (and protected by US military might in Afghanistan) that the price has collapsed. The ease of bringing it in from Mexico has revived the opium crops there to such an extent that the US no longer controls either the wholesale end or the middle men. There are plenty of people happy to have the chance to sell for $3 US what was a dime bag of smack back in the sixties. In addition it's both much more pure and usually cut with whatever some dolt believes will make their suppliers the preferred suppliers due to their selling, "better sh* t".
In a country where the "Christians" rationalize away the deaths of people they make only the most feeble efforts to lead to Christ and the culture glorifies living for the moment no matter what the cost, the market couldn't be better for dope dealers.
Nor has it ever been better for those who profit from the drug trade directly and indirectly while rationalizing away the horrific effects it has on society. Many such folks find out the hard way that legal or not, that horror can get to them the same as it does to those they consider stupid and beneath them.
Pretty much in a nutshell.
You have a good knowledge of history eg Britian, China, cresent.
What historical books do you read??
Post of the thread. You have nailed the ugly truth to the wall.