Dwid -
Ooops, you're right, I meant to say opium, not cocaine.
Afghan poppy fields back in full production since the USSA liberated them.
Was the Taliban getting into drugs too? If so, I didn't know about that. I'm under the impression that they pissed off the Washington "war against drugs" drug lords by shutting it down.
yeah they did piss people off by banning it, but there was a report a few years ago about them busting a group of Taliban members trying to sell a massive amount to get weapons, which was a setup to an undercover agent. It could just be false information to make things look better, like oh the good ole usa stopped the evil terrorists from selling drugs, which is what the story looked like to the dumbed down person, but no doubt our government is profiting tremendously from the opium derived things out of Afghanistan and it keeps guys like tryone making profits ( the blacks who couldn't be pushed into sports), although I hear on the west coast its mexicans selling it
and they don't like clandestine chemists who make fentanyl derivatives (at least 40x stronger than heroin, of course cut more and sold as such, so more money coming in, have to be a very smart chemist to make it, like breaking bad walter white level which is why I never understood why waste his talents on meth, but it fit the show better). I have read about rich people like yuppies in Washington (Seattle, not DC) doing fentanyl, sold as fentanyl though. It is very hard to show up on a drug test, they have to do some special, very expensive gas test? I believe, which is rarely used. Some story a while back about someone getting into it not thinking it was a big deal because it was fentanyl and not what you think about when you think of heroin, which is junkies.
the glorification of mafia type things is mainly emulated by blacks and other minorities, of course probably nowhere near as organized but they do seem to have connections to law enforcement, guys getting busted with bricks getting out several days later, if that long, along with illegal weapons.
seapking of which, i remember a proessor talking about how racist it was to lock up someone longer for crack than cocaine, because "more white people use coke", cocaine is schedule 2, which means it is highly abuseable but has medical use. crack does not. I forget what the medical use is, I think as an anesthetic during certain type of eye surgeries (lidocaine is crap, so I can see the reasoning behind it), just weird to think of hospitals having medical grade cocaine haha.Crack has no medical use, except for experiments with monkeys, I remember reading a story about a researcher who got busted because he was caught "just showing the monkeys how to smoke the crack", so it is schedule 1 like heroin, although in the UK heroin has medical use, it is just diacetylmoprhine.
