Posted on 11/17/2023 11:16:56 AM PST by Red Badger
Illegal aliens the end
I saw a report that the Taliban had reduced the cultivation of opium by 96%. The report didn’t say, but I suspect their method was to kill the farmer if he didn’t stop growing. The Taliban gave the farmers one year to comply. The upshot of this was that opium became largely unavailable. It is being replaced by other drugs. Those drugs are substantially more deadly. The same report outlined how much opium cultivation had gone up while the Americans were there. I understand, but it isn’t a good look for the US.
What is fentanyl
A substance that should be distributed to every homeless camp on Friday nights
Don’t understand the business model. If you’re selling drugs to someone isn’t the point an addicted customer who always needs the next hit? If you give them something that kills them with the first use doesn’t that kind of mess up the model?
Back in the 1990’s “designer” drugs were hitting the street. They were drugs modified from fentanyl’s chemical composition that, since it wasn’t exactly fentanyl, wasn’t illegal. One of the fentanyl based designer drugs lead to a Parkinson’s like condition that rapidly progressed to death. I haven’t heard much about designer drugs in a while. The thing with fentanyl is that you rapidly build a tolerance. With large doses the drug sequesters in the lungs. After several hours it leeches out of lung tissue and can lead to respiratory depression and death.
Druggies and their suppliers aren’t that bright at business math..............
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It’s directly correlated to the crackdown on prescription opiates. People who got hooked or otherwise abused them moved to cheaper heroin, which then got more laced with even more cheaper fentanyl. Now a typical heroin junkie can’t get high on heroin. It’s the fentanyl they are addicted to. So is it better or worse than when they had to go to a doctor and pharmacy to get pills?
Complete order is easy if the government is willing and powerful enough to impose it.
“Chewing gum is banned in Singapore so leave it at home when packing your bags. Importation of chewing gums into the country, even if it is not for trading, is illegal.”
“Not flushing the toilet is more than just a breach of propriety in Singapore, you will be breaking the law if you do so.”
When I worked around SE Asia in the 90s I loved Singapore for the order, cleanliness and safety. I always got nervous though when entering the country because of the drug penalty of death... they mean it... every word. My fear was being planted unwillingly and unwittingly as a mule coming in from a country in the region. It happened to some but fortunately not me. In all my travels I never checked luggage no matter how long I was going to be on the road and kept an eye on my stuff all the time. One large soft side expandable briefcase and one faithful rectangular roll-on. Sometimes awkward, sometimes irritating but always an advantage to me. Business class seating facilitated my travel style.
This is a self correcting problem. It requires zero taxpayer dollars.
In some areas, Fentanyl is being mixed with a large animal tranquilizer to give it more strength. This will eventually cost 500,000 deaths a year I will bet.
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