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Isn't this more because the supply of poppy was cut off when the US pulled out of Afghanistan? Users want the good stuff, dealers buy the cheap and available st
by t-3 10mo ago
Isn't this more because the supply of poppy was cut off when the US pulled out of Afghanistan? Users want the good stuff, dealers buy the cheap and available stuff and pretend it's real.
- metalman 10mo agopoppy/opium/heroin production has shifted to myanmar, but there has been less production, and the synthetics are much cheaper ,so that reduces profitability for poppy Afganistan, have set up addiction centers, where addicts are put, but it's cold turkey. Opium poppy production is bieng eradicated in Afganistan ,and penaltiys for drug smugglers and dealers will escalate, but a quick search shows the increadable synicism of the western press who are spinning it as "hardship for Afganinstans farmers"
- lukan 10mo ago"hardship for Afganinstans farmers" Isn't it hardship when people with guns come to you and burn your fields?
- metalman 10mo agook, lets talk about Palestine ,if thats what you want.
- HPsquared 10mo agoI wonder how this compares to the common western situation of livestock culls. Presumably there is compensation in some cases and not in others (poppy cultivation being illegal). I suppose it's at opposite ends of a scale.
- t-3 10mo agoOh, woe is me, the government burned down my illegal drug manufacturing operation! Where is the justice?!