Heroin got the bump-up because of the opioid high-usage, and when doctors got pressured to lessen prescriptions, the opioid-users quietly flipped to the best alternate medication...Heroin.
The Hezbollah guys do fall into the mix because they became the ‘cartel’ that moved the drug out of Afghanistan, and into Europe and the US. It finances their operation, and their thugs.
But all of this goes back to the late 1990s when the pain-killers got market approval, and started the perception that you could control pain better.
hezbullshite=terror=the zero=helping his muzziescum butt buddies
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Still is a turd
Taking heroine is not someome elses terrorism. It is your personal weakness of character. That is not a disease floating around on a germ. It is a personal desire you wont control. That is why i don’t want to pay
for your failing.
There is a *subset* of people who push a variety of harmful agendas for the purpose of harming the USA.
Of course, the majority of most harmful activities do not engage in any given deviance for the purpose of hurting the USA.
Just a *subset* do.
...but that subset pushes “drugs of despair” such as heroin, genital mutilation under various soft-sounding names such as “transgender,” the display of random welded pieces of discarded junk as if “art,” etc.
Important to remember that the above happens, as well as that the majority are simply “seeing art” or “finding themselves” or “experiencing ecstasy,” etc.
It’s a minority subset of each harmful activity who push their agenda for the sole purpose of harming the USA or harming the youth of the USA.
https://mic.com/articles/90199/the-average-heroin-addict-is-not-who-you-think-it-is#.MyImaPjz3
Just ask Hezbollah how Obama got them to smuggle it, shutting the DEA
Iran’s growing drug problem: ‘No walk of society is immune’
They loiter on pedestrian bridges, puffing on pipes. They squat behind bushes and palm trees in leafy parks to get their fix. Even doctors and nurses are users.
Iran’s drug problem has become a national epidemic, health ministry officials and local doctors say, drawing the poor as well as the affluent, the secular as well as the pious, to an assortment of hard drugs including crystal meth, painkillers, synthetic hallucinogens and heroin and opium trafficked from neighboring Afghanistan.
“No walk of society is immune. Even the sons of Islamic clerics are patients in our clinics,” said Dr. Hasan Razavi, who runs a small rehabilitation center in western Tehran.
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime says Iran has one of the gravest addiction crises in the world. Health ministry officials estimate there are 2.2 million drug addicts in this country of 80 million, 2.75% of the population, but doctors who operate some of the hundreds of government-sanctioned rehab clinics nationwide believe the actual figures are higher.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-drug-addiction-2016-story.html
Like most of the so-called terrorism we are fighting, most of the drugs flooding our country are the result of traitorous Deep State policies and activity.
It is ultimately the fault of those who start taking the opiods illegally or unsafely—but also to the activities of American treachery as much as that of any other country.
My tagline has been [and might remain for some time] along the same lines. Good job!
Before the “War on Drugs” the cartels essentially used an anti-competitive business model. They kept competition low by literally killing people who went into business in “their” marketplace. The entire import business had shaken out to just two or three major players and almost no minor players. Somebody who rented a plane and flew down to Columbia thinking they’d pick up a load of Cocaine or Marihuana was reported by the suppliers to the cartel they dealt with and the cartel dealt with the entrepreneurs. Pretty much everybody knew the dangers and steered clear. As a consequence of having the market sewed up there was an incentive to maximize profits by limiting supplies. Keeping the quantity low for a given amount of money had a number of advantage to the cartels and even if they’d wanted to increase supplies the two or three cartels only had the capability of sending in x tons per year.
Enter the US War on Drugs. The US was amazingly efficient at wiping out the cartels. When the cartels were gone their brutal enforcement was also gone. Now, a tourist could buy a pound of whatever and smuggle it back. The drug business moved from a Marxist controlled economy model to a free market economy. This is the perfect example of why the free market economy is superior to all other models. The price of drugs started to drop precipitously as soon as the cartels were wiped out.
The fact that drugs are dirt cheap now is because of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Our own government made them cheap by wiping out the mechanism that kept them expensive. Every government program you can think of runs afoul of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
The heroin coming across the Southern border and elsewhere, but mostly from the Southern border, is extremely cheap, potent and more readily available, than pills. Whether it’s being made there or coming from China and Central Asia, Afghanistan is one of the worlds biggest producers of opium, and transiting over the border, very little, if anything good comes across it.
With pills, you have to go see a doctor or head to the ER. Lots of states are instituting tracking databases to prevent folks from going to 5 doctors in one day and getting 5 prescriptions.
Heroin, find a dealer, pay your money, get high.
I will never understand why we didn’t take out the poppy fields in the ‘Stan.
We can debate who/what is behind it, but the goal for supplying and endless supply of drugs, Common Core indoctrination in the schools, and media nonsense is always the same:
To make the majority of the population lazy, selfish, and stupid so there will be no resistance when the Communists come knocking at the door, so as to usher in the NWO.
The epidemic is weakness and stupidity. Libs and millennials hardest hit. Darwinism, it applies to us as much as any critter in the woods.
Simple economics. Increased supply = decreased price.
Oddly enough, assuming no other inputs or barriers to "trade", this might be seen as "good news", in that it means that demand hasn't risen as much as supply.
I take my potential silver lining where I can find them. :)
Opium wars to break down a society- what a novel idea
I thoroughly agree, it is so cheap now but terribly expensive...and I believe this was a strategy implemented by BHO on orders from his puppet master...
In all fairness, heroin is cheap and available because of market forces, supply and demand. Whoever supplies it is able to supply and smuggle it, but who they are doesn’t matter, because if they can’t, someone else can.
Nor can they impact demand. If anything, demand is created by the legal pharma companies that produce, market, and encourage doctors to over-prescribe their legal drugs, causing addiction by those individuals that fall into that trap.
Yet there is a new twist. Fentanyl and its analogues are much more potent than is heroin. They are also much cheaper to produce in drug labs and smuggle than is heroin. They are not made from opium poppies, but are synthetic drugs.
So there is no supply chain going halfway around the world, across many nations, from farmer’s fields, caravans of smugglers, many bribes, etc.
And yet, Fentanyl and its analogues are far more deadly than is heroin, now killing around 60,000 Americans a year, a number that is increasing every year. Drug dealers are motivated to cut their heroin with it, replacing the bulk with fillers.
All illegal drugs are due to those who desire to destroy this country, so yes, absolutely.
The Russians cause just ask the MSM.
Was it terrorism in the 60’s?