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Yeah, then the black market goes from some cartel pipeline to someone in your neighborhood. There's a huge difference in regards to funding violence.
by toolz 10y ago
Yeah, then the black market goes from some cartel pipeline to someone in your neighborhood. There's a huge difference in regards to funding violence.
- nannal 10y agoExcept Joe who grows weed in his cupboard isn't really capable of producing heroin let alone the extraordinarily dangerous opium derivatives that pharmaceutical are pushing on doctors.
- nyolfen 10y agowelcome to our grim cyberpunk (near-)future: https://www.wired.com/2015/08/dont-try-home-scientists-brew-opiates-yeast/ https://www.wired.com/2015/08/dont-try-home-scientists-brew-...
- nnfy 10y agoIf Joe can grow weed in his cupboard, he absolutely can grow poppies and produce opium. The process is not complex.
- narrowrail 10y agoThe required acreage to yield opium in significant quantities is way beyond a closet (or even a basement). Not to mention that heroin is ~1% of total opium weight.
- nnfy 10y agoIf we're talking about Joe's personal use, a single poppy plant produces multiple doses, according to this[1] reference and some anecdotal drug forum dose suggestions, on the order of tens of mg. 1.https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/opium.html https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/opium.html
- narrowrail 10y ago>produces multiple doses Could you tell me what number "multiple" is and what a "dose" looks like? Are we talking about raw plant material that is opium, or refined heroin/morphine/codeine? The conflation of the word drugs and plant material seems like the most absurd gorilla in the room. Off to do some coffee...