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There is an irony here that the US invaded Afghanistan, the world's largest opium exporter[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanista

• Theodores 9y ago
  ...and those drugs go North towards the former Soviet Union. This is chemical warfare by other means. When our Russian friends cannot afford the heroin any more they make 'Krokodil': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine Whatever you do, don't do image or video searches on this 'flesh eating drug'!!! This product came about in part due to codeine being as available as aspirin (no prescription needed) and a crackdown on heroin by the teetotal Putin. In the USA and places like Australia 'crystal meth'/'ice' took hold in same-but-different circumstances. When you look at the UN report on opium cultivation in Afghanistan for 2002 you see why there was such an important need to bomb the country - those evil Taliban ('students') had wiped out this important (to the Americans) industry. Thankfully with the British protecting the poppy fields the trade has been restored and we are back to business as usual.