The war on drugs - the governments hate competition!
Lets do some facts shall we?
For this article we shall concentrate on the US of A. If you know anything about Afghanistan and poppy fields, you may know that the Taliban burnt down all the poppy fields, this angered the US government, so Afghanistan had to be liberated, by killing a few million you guessed it Afghanistan people, now the poppy fields are back in full swing, so the heroin industry is also in full production. (and the USA is now full of heroin addicts)
You can find many articles regarding the US soldiers compensating poppy field owners who have a bad crop, they give them cash to buy more seeds, do not believe me? lets get some sources down on the block eh!
Lets take a look at the amount of heroin pouring into the USA!
An in-depth analysis of 2016 U.S. drug overdose data shows that America’s overdose epidemic is spreading geographically and increasing across demographic groups. The report, from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), appears in today’s issue of MMWR.
Drug overdoses killed 63,632 Americans in 2016. Nearly two-thirds of these deaths (66%) involved a prescription or illicit opioid. Overdose deaths increased in all categories of drugs examined for men and women, people ages 15 and older, all races and ethnicities, and across all levels of urbanization.
CDC’s new analysis confirms that recent increases in drug overdose deaths are driven by continued sharp increases in deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, such as illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF).
“No area of the United States is exempt from this epidemic—we all know a friend, family member, or loved one devastated by opioids,” said CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, M.D. “All branches of the federal government are working together to reduce the availability of illicit drugs, prevent deaths from overdoses, treat people with substance-use disorders, and prevent people from starting using drugs in the first place.”
So as the USA do not grow poppies, though we know where does, and we also know that US forces patrol said poppy fields there, how does so many deaths occur in a country where opioids (heroin) are not grown? It does not take a rocket scientist to put 2 and 2 together here to make 4!
Prescription opioids!
Opioids could kill nearly half a million people across America over the next decade as the crisis of addiction and overdose accelerates.
Deaths from opioids have been rising sharply for years, and drug overdoses already kill more Americans under age 50 than anything else. STAT asked leading public health experts at 10 universities to forecast the arc of the epidemic over the next decade. The consensus: It will get worse before it gets better.
There are now nearly 100 deaths a day from opioids, a swath of destruction that runs from tony New England suburbs to the farm country of California, from the beach towns of Florida to the Appalachian foothills.
In the worst-case scenario put forth by STAT’s expert panel, that toll could spike to 250 deaths a day, if potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil continue to spread rapidly and the waits for treatment continue to stretch weeks in hard-hit states like West Virginia and New Hampshire.
If that prediction proves accurate, the death toll over the next decade could top 650,000. That’s almost as many Americans as will die from breast cancer and prostate cancer during that time period. Put another way, opioids could kill nearly as many Americans in a decade as HIV/AIDS has killed since that epidemic began in the early 1980s. The deep cuts to Medicaid now being debated in Congress could add to the desperation by leaving millions of low-income adults without insurance, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Even the more middle-of-the-road forecasts suggest that by 2027, the annual U.S. death toll from opioids alone will likely surpass the worst year of gun deaths on record, and may top the worst year of AIDS deaths at the peak of that epidemic in the 1990s, when nearly 50,000 people were dying each year. The average toll across all 10 forecasts: nearly 500,000 deaths over the next decade.
Beyond the immeasurable pain to families, the overdoses will cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars.
Now you people in America know more than me who the families are that make and sell the deadly opiate based prescription drugs, so I need not cover them, or the billions they make from getting people hooked on what they think are innocent pain killers!.
So how do all these opiates get from A to U?
Never fear, the government have that covered!
I. Top Mexican Drug Lord: 'I Trafficked Cocaine For the U.S. Government'
The “logistical coordinator” for a top Mexican drug-trafficking gang that was responsible for purchasing the CIA torture jet that crashed with four tons on cocaine on board back in 2007 has told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago that he has been working as a U.S. government asset for years.
Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla is the son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, one of the top kingpins of the Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization.
Niebla was arrested in Mexico in March 2009 and extradited to the United States to stand trial last February.
“The indictment pending against Zambada Niebla claims he served as the “logistical coordinator” for the “cartel,” helping to oversee an operation that imported into the U.S. “multi-ton quantities of cocaine… using various means, including but not limited to, Boeing 747 cargo aircraft, private aircraft… buses, rail cars, tractor trailers, and automobiles,” writes Narcosphere’s Bill Conroy.
In a two page court pleading filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, Niebla claims that he was working on behalf and with the authority of, “The U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”); and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”); and the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”),” since January 1, 2004.
Niebla is also connected to the Gulfstream II jet that wrecked with four tons of cocaine on board on September 24, 2007. European investigators linked the plane’s tail number, N987SA, to past CIA “rendition” operations.
The bill of sale for the Gulfstream jet, sold weeks before it crashed, listed the name of Greg Smith, a pilot who had previously worked for the FBI, DEA and CIA.
The plane was purchased by Niebla’s Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization through a syndicate of Colombian drug-traffickers that included a CIA asset named Nelson Urrego, according to another undercover CIA operative, Baruch Vega, who was involved in the deal.
“The Gulfstream II jet, according to Mexican authorities, was among a number of aircraft acquired by the Sinaloa drug organization via an elaborate money laundering scheme involving a chain of Mexican casa de cambios (currency exchange houses) overseen by alleged Sinaloa organization operative Pedro Alfonso Alatorre Damy, according to Mexican government and U.S. media reports,” writes Conroy.
Sinaloa bought the jet by wiring money through the U.S. banking giant Wachovia, now a subsidiary of Wells Fargo.
Using nothing more than common sense, you/we can establish that the US governments aids, abets and traffics the drugs, hence why they hate competition, not only in drugs, they hate competition regarding theft, as they are the single biggest thieves there is, via tax, and as yet I have not found 1 law that states any person has to pay tax as yet, they just assume we will, well I do not.
https://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/
And now the the normal american person has learned the truth about cbd oil, the federal, state and local governments want it classified as a drug even though there are none of the typical drug effects which get things listed as a drug. But it works and people know it works especially for control of epilepsy, the pharmaceutical drug cost for from a quick google search - "Valproic acid (Depakene) costs around $240 for 90 250 milligram tablets" - That was from a 2016 article. So there is competition for how best to control epilepsy.
I do not know of one single pharmaceutical drug that does not cause harm of some sort to the body, yes it may help your diabetes, but now we need to make sure we check every 3 months to make sure your kidneys are still working okay, So now even though the diabetes pills are cheap, you have the chance of having to be on dialysis for the rest of your life after we kill your kidneys. Just one of the damned if you do damned if you don't options of one small medicale problem. No doctor pill comes with out side effects to keep them and the drug companies in business.
Government and pharma go hand in hand, lobbying is king, those with the deepest pockets make the policies, hence why Israel get $10 million per day from the US of A, to lobby for more war in the middle east, bingo, lobbying is KING!
By any other name it is called MONEY LAUNDERING for politicians to keep the military contracts running. What a mess of a system eh!
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We know who they are alright. They grow poppies here in Tasmania i know someone that works in one of the processing plants. They go into Pharmaceutical products.
:-) exactly bro, and there is one in the USA that is getting people hooked, I will look up the name later, it is 1 family owned pain killer, that is wiping out whole communities.
Wow that is bad.
My calipers are now good though. :-)
Excelent bro :)
I thought is was called oxycontin and it is.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/11/oxycontin-makers-secretly-ran-massive-knockoff-opioid-firm/amp/
Thanks for the link :)