Posted on 03/08/2014 6:35:15 AM PST by mgist
Last week, Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment with a heroin needle in his arm. The Oscar-winning actor was one of an increasing number of Americans who have died as a result of the drug once untouched by everyone besides so-called “junkies.” All around the country, health officials are warning of a new heroin epidemic – affecting new demographics in new places – that was simmering to a boil long before Hoffman died.
National data is released frustratingly slowly, but recent reports out of Washington state, New York City and Maryland suggest that, over the next several years as national data trickles out, heroin deaths will be up across the board.
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Back page local stories like this one are popping up all the nation. New Jersey fighting against sophisticated heroin distribution network - See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/specialreports/heroin_bergen_paterson_drugs_2013.html#sthash.JiMPRWKF.dpuf
This article explains how opium production is skyrocketing and UN is reporting false information. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-war-afghanistan-s-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade/91
Obviously governments are being complicit in the multi billion $ heroin trade, including our own. _
I think the bigger story here is that the media has been silent about what is happening.If it wasnt for the Seymour death we would have never heard a thing. They try to blame it in addiction to painkillers but obviously it is an issue of supply. Heroin is flooding the streets.
I always wondered why our media never mentioned the fact that Chavez turned Venezuela into the worlds biggest cocaine distributor. A Venezuelan military plane was caught in Paris with 2 tons of cocaine. It was never mentioned here. It can actually be explained by the fact that JP Morgan is openly laundering money for the Narcos in Caracas.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/21/jp-morgans-venezuelan-cronyism-reaches-a-boiling-point/?onswipe_redirect=no
Heroin comes from the Middle East and I can not believe that our government can spy on everyone around the world but doesn't see any of this going on.
Then we have major drug legalization push has with all things destructive we know it is associated with Soros. It didn't just happen by dumb luck once Obama was elected.
Part of me feels bad for heroin addicts, a bit. But I have this really nasty little schadenfreude thing going because if this generation gets mired in pot and heroin, MY drug-free kids will be the last ones standing, and they can take charge!!! Buahaahaa!!
But having sympathy for drug abusers makes you feel superior. That's the important thing.
I am sorry that has happened to your family...but it is not the heroin addiction that really is what has done this devastation. To focus on that in addicts is not going to do it. It is the anger and unforgiveness that compels some weaker souls to try and find an alternative happiness that real love would, and does provide. The fhu.com has that simple pathway, used by so many with real and lasting peace.
Never claimed to be perfect and I am sure when I go to meet Jesus there will be a lot to answer for.
But among my many sins, using illegal drugs or committing Suicide will not be among them.
Not talking about sympathy...but real compassion with tough love. The kind that Roy has...www.fhu.com. This is the treatment that addicts need...and it cures forever.
Well, you just are stronger than these addicts, but you have similar angers inside that do compel them to find an alternative for real happiness and peace. It really doesn’t make you much better. Fhu.com has that simple and true road..and I am not selling anything...it just works. patriotoutreach.org has the same thing for free...curing ptsd in thousands of troopers.
In the meantime they drag everybody around down with them.
Thank God! :)
I now know; my error. Asked AM to delete it.
That threat far exceeds any posed by legalized drugs.
Hell, if the federal laws against pot were eliminated that would be a major contribution to reducing the size and power of the federal government AND the drug cartels/narco states.
I saw on the news "El Chapo" got 75% of his revenue from pot.
Maybe we could legalize pot, keep the rest illegal, and make good progress against the bigger threats.
I can imagine a future POTUS/Congress agreeing we HAVE to send troops into Mexico and Central America to break the narco states, cartels...and for "humanitarian" reasons, of course.
All the while the federal leviathan continues to devour what liberty we have left.
It's time to start thinking right on this matter. The general, social consensus (right or wrong) is that pot is no more dangerous than alcohol with a probable majority thinking it's less dangerous. Now, I know many disagree...I'm just offering an unsubstantiated opinion here and will not represent that as FACT.
Another argument is that more kids will smoke more often. I understand the concern, but I don't buy it. Any kid today who wants to smoke pot...is smoking pot right now. There are no real obstacles to access...inconvenience at most. In fact anyone who wants to smoke pot is doing so.
I propose the real question that should be asked is: Should we continue to suffer the costs of keeping it illegal with all the social implications that entails?
I am a public school graduate and I am a CPA. My kids go to public school and are very intelligent. Sorry we don’t have a $1,000 a month to put them in private school DipSh*t.
This isn’t an issue about drug addicts. There are vulnerable people who’s life circumstances lead them to drugs. I am no one to judge, and have no doubt our Godless culture is very hard to grow up in.
There but for the grace of God go any of us.
The availability of heroin in the real problem. Why is heroin suddenly flooding American cities? Why isn’t the DEA dealing with this? A decade ago we would constantly hear about major drug busts around the country. Now there is nothing.
The State Department NEVER mentions Venezuela as a major distributor. There are no shipments from Venezuela caught.
Drug legalization is a Soros agenda that has been pushed through because a few of people will make a ton of money.
Because of these policies we now have legalization push for “sick” children etc., THC laced lollipops for kids. Not a good idea.
Realize that there is a battle between good and evil, and our children’s mind are the target for predators. It isn’t just drugs flooding the market, it is the environment and culture that is pushing drug use and enabling the billion $ drug trade.
I don’t think the War on Drugs was a failure, because we now know that there was a war on former President Bush, and policies that promoted abstinence of any form. Our beliefs on the Bush failed drug policies are false. They were pushed by a compromised media, and a billionaire’s who are pushing drugs.
August 31, 2004
George Soros “wants to spend $75 million defeating George W. Bush because Soros wants to legalize heroin”
In a discussion on the August 30 edition of FOX News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes of unregulated “soft money” contributions by 527 groups, former speaker of the House and FOX News Channel political contributor Newt Gingrich claimed that financier and philanthropist George Soros “wants to spend $75 million defeating [President] George W. Bush because Soros wants to legalize heroin.”
Gingrich’s remark, aired live from the Republican National Convention, echoed a smear of Soros made one day earlier by current Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert on the August 29 edition of FOX Broadcasting Company’s FOX News Sunday: “I don’t know where George Soros gets his money. I don’t know where — if it comes overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from. ... George Soros has been for legalizing drugs in this country. So, I mean, he’s got a lot of ancillary interests out there.” When asked by host Chris Wallace if Hastert thought Soros “may be getting money from the drug cartel,” Hastert responded, “I’m saying I don’t know where groups — could be people who support this type of thing. I’m saying we don’t know.”
http://mediamatters.org/research/2004/08/31/gingrich-george-soros-wants-to-spend-75-million/131762
Anyway, I'm a public school graduate and make twice that much so I could easily have sent my kids to private school. But I chose not to because I wanted to use my money for something else - like vacations and retirement.
With good reinforcement at home, there's nothing embarrassing about choosing to send your kids to a public school. The parents have more to do with educating their children than any school - public or private.
The primary role of the Federal Government is to protect citizens. Something has gone very wrong in a few short years.
I realize the liberal Soros agenda of drug legalization has influenced even staunch conservatives. You are drinking their kook-aid, whether you know it or not.
Soros has been planning this for a long time, and since Obama his goals are coming at us like a train wreck. The media doesn’t say a word. The influence peddler (he is very good at that) represents billionaire criminals from all over the world and has presidents in his pocket.
Our poor kids don’t stand a chance.
I agree. I cannot understand why anyone needs drugs in a world that contains Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major. I can get high just sitting and listening to it. Surely there are other things - music, art, books, movies - that would affect other people in the same way that music affects me. To me, drugs look like a quick way to get something that's better anyway if you earn it.
“Am I my brothers keeper?”
Whose kids don't st5and a chance? Yours? Mine? Everybody else?
I am not convinced. As you are not convinced by my argument.
This will be played out in elections and referendum over the next decade or so, maybe sooner.
But I have no doubt marijuana will be legal in all 50 states within a decade.
95% of the WORLD’S OPIUM is produced in AFGHANISTAN.
(for the public school graduates, Opium is the Main Ingredient in HEROIN).
The US MILITARY is and has been in complete control of the AFGHANISTAN BORDERS for YEARS NOW.
(for the Public School Graduates, The Military is THE US GOVERNMENT)
The recent spike in Heroin Use began Shortly After WE WENT TO AFGHANISTAN ( Try Googling it, you will see for yourself)
(for the Public School Graduates, Buy a Hooked on Phonics Game before attempting to Read and Comprehend anything written here or referred to.)
How do you suppose ALL THAT PRODUCT LEFT AFGHANISTAN FOR THE US right under the noses of our GOVERNMENT?????
There are two major problems with your arguments here in reference to heroin use in the United States.
Mexico poppy production has increased exponentially every year. Poppies grow quite well in Mexico. The Mexican cartels have taken over the heroin trade in North America. Almost all of the heroin we now see in the U.S. is produced and refined in Mexico and smuggled over our southern border. It is far cheaper than Asian heroin. In fact, Mexico now has more poppy cultivation than marijuana cultivation.
Opiate addiction has greatly increased in the United States over the past decade. This addiction can be directly attributed to the rampant abuse and addiction of powerful prescribed pain medication such as the very oxycontin (they call it hillbilly heroin for a reason). The influx of Mexican heroin has made their product cheaper than the opiate pills for which addicts were paying top dollar.
The price of heroin in the U.S. has dropped drastically over the past decade as Mexican production has increased.
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