The deadly threat to America that no one's talking about - Even though it's much closer to home than China, Russia, or Iran

American Thinker ^ | 05/25/2021 | Bob Weir

[SeekAndFind]

If you were to ask anyone at random, what is the most dangerous threat to our country, he'd likely say China, Russia, or Iran, because those countries are, or soon will be, a military threat to our nation. Some might say a polluted environment is our greatest enemy, while others might say the increase in rioting and looting from coast to coast.

It's highly unlikely that many people will say the greatest threat comes from the drug cartels that destroy the lives of tens of thousands of Americans each year. Deaths from illicit drug use can be differentiated in several ways, including an indirect risk factor for premature death from disease or injury, deaths directly attributed to drug overdoses, and violent deaths caused by clashes among gang members involved in the distribution of the lethal substances.

We frequently read about the huge weekly death toll in major cities where drug gangs operate. The aforementioned are only those involving statistics on death caused by illegal drugs, it doesn't include the thousands of families that deal with the devastating albeit non-lethal effects of addiction. If you've ever seen a "former" addict trying to get the poison of hard drugs out of his system, you'll be afraid to take so much as a baby aspirin as a remedy for a mild headache.

Given the fact that we consistently lose so many American lives each year to the dreaded scourge of illicit drug sales, have you ever wondered why our military isn't used to crush the drug cartels that make hundreds of billions of dollars each year by poisoning our population? We spend billions defending our country from outside forces, while our citizens are being massacred from the inside by malignant enemies who traffic in drugs across our southern border.

[Boogieman]

I’ll do you one better, if drugs weren’t illegal, nobody would do illegal drugs.

[blueunicorn6]

Wall Street tells you that you have to be rich.

Madison Avenue tells you that you have to be beautiful.

Hollywood tells you that you have to be tough.

The education system tells you that you have to be brilliant.

Can’t do it?

Lose yourself in drugs.

[Taxman]

Ping

[PIF]

Who runs the drugs were you live?
Current as of 2016 the most recent map available from the DEA

[JimRed]

It's highly unlikely that many people will say the greatest threat comes from the drug cartels that destroy the lives of tens of thousands of Americans each year. Deaths from illicit drug use can be differentiated in several ways, including an indirect risk factor for premature death from disease or injury, deaths directly attributed to drug overdoses, and violent deaths caused by clashes among gang members involved in the distribution of the lethal substances.

Drug use / abuse is a CHOICE. That problem will exist as long as morons CHOOSE to use drugs for other than medical conditions. No sympathy from these quarters.

But on the supply side, simply executing dealers (from kingpin down to street hustler) would put a dent into the ability to make that CHOICE.

[mikey_hates_everything]

China is targeting what it wants to eliminate—and making money doing it. At a lethal dose of just 2mg of very cheap powder of which it has exported tons to the US through Mexico, it could easily indiscriminately kill people through inhalation, consumption via water supply or skin absorption. But that hasn’t happened. Carfentanyl is even more potent.