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appius 29th Mar 2018 12:02 AM
Primate @ 17/3/2018 20:55
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appius 28th Mar 2018 11:45 PM
Igor @ 28/3/2018 5:46

The fentanyl epidemic is due to


The fentanyl epidemic is due to the simple fact that laboratory drugs are far easier to manufacture at scale than protecting disconnected valleys of poppies ESPECIALLY when America puts boots on the ground and pays warlords to stomp your agriculture.

Yeah, I'm talking about Afghanistan. The war there put a real dent in opium production and absolutely trashed a lot of the smuggling routes through Turkey into Europe. But after American troops drew down, poppy production spiked and was actually at an all-time high last year. But is any of that making it to the US? Not really. Most of it comes from Mexico and Columbia, who were more than happy to shift production from coca to meet demand. You can draw a very thick line from the Aghan War to the rise of the cartels in Mexico.

You can also draw a thick line to the industrialization of fentanyl production in China, which accounts for the vast majority of North American supply. Every port on the Pacific is facing a crisis, most notably LA and Vancouver. We are way past this being simple diversion from medical supply. We are to the point where fentanyl and even carfentanil are far stronger and much cheaper than other street opiods, with predictable results.

We are also dealing with substances that are not comparable to substances like alcohol or tobacco or cannabis. The lethality is categorically different, so arguments to legalization have to account for that first. Same goes for arguments to prohibition, especially if that's backed by the casual initiation of supply disruptions that caused all this in the first place. Yeah, the Taliban were making bank on opium. Big whoop, that was the devil we knew, and now look. You think China is gonna stop? They don't fucking care, and neither does Russia or North Korea (who are starting to do the same).

Blame the neocons.
Posted in Poll of the Day #263
appius 28th Mar 2018 11:28 PM
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appius 28th Mar 2018 11:24 PM
Mercator @ 29/3/2018 0:13
It's just weird to not have classics like Snow White, Bambi and The Jungle Book there.


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Post Edited by appius @ 28th Mar 2018 11:26 PM
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appius 28th Mar 2018 9:44 PM
p sure we just pick.

lots of people here are picking people who would never back them up (e.g. admins)
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appius 28th Mar 2018 9:43 PM
Mike @ 29/3/2018 2:03
Yeah they're cute, except for the ones that flirt with fascism


ha

good one
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