Posted on 03/28/2020 7:50:15 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The coronavirus pandemic is driving up the price of heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl as Mexican cartels scramble to get their hands on Chinese-manufactured chemicals now in short supply.
“The cartels are having a lot of difficulty producing drugs right now, and when the supply is low the price always goes up,” a US federal law enforcement source told The Post. “China has pretty much stopped production on the chemicals they need to do business.”
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Democrats gots to have their dope
Dope dealers, liquor stores and tatto parlors are going to have a heyday when the stimulus checks comes out.
And crime will go up. But that’s ok we are arbitrarily releasing inmates.
Project Python had already took a bite out of it, too.
Another cartel is also being hurt right now. The oil cartel. I have not seen the numbers but the daily use of oil has had to have dropped.
When you figure ships and planes not moving, and millions around the world are not commuting there is going to be a glut of oil for a long time.
Everybody is cracking down on price gougers. Go get them.
In other news, revenue for panhandlers has tanked; the homeless are involuntarily detoxing. Oh the humanity!!
This is why we need guns for home protection, especially now. Usually-unoccupied homes during the day now contain residents in quarantine, so pickings are slim for addicts. Their only choice is to ‘up their game’ and do more dangerous acts. The case for gun ownership for home protection is self-defining for these circumstances.
Good. EF the cartels.
“there is going to be a glut of oil for a long time.”
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President Trump deals with this by buying ‘low’ and re-stocking the US Petroleum Reserve. Until Pelosi stripped the funds to do so from the CV-19 Economic Act.
Who knew that the war on drugs would be won by COVID 19?
They should get stimulant checks!
I need to start it today or the battery is probably going to die.
Had not thought about that, I think our car needs starting, too.
I’m sure AOC will be screaming that the bailout bill didn’t protect illegal drug users like it didn’t do enough to protect illegal aliens.
Look at it on the bright side - all those big city liberals who would never dream of prosecuting drug-dealers for peddling their poisons will come down hard on them for “price-gouging” if this keeps up!
He was going to replenish before the act. I am sure he will replenish.
What does the Baltic Dry Index look like I wonder.
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