Why Heroin Use Is Skyrocketing Across The US

http://www.businessinsider.com ^ | 1/15/14 | Pamela Engel

[peeps36]

Don't forget the certain drug cartel that gets special treatment when it comes to guns and drugs. There have been reports of planes full of drugs landing in Chicago airports. It wouldn't surprise me.

[BBell]

American Gangster. Smuggling drugs in dead servicemen’s body and caskets.

[BBell]

With heroin, they never quite know for sure how much it’s been cut.

That is what is happening down here. These young kids do not know what they are buying and a lot of the heroin is very pure. Not like in the 60's and 70's where it was cut so much.

[familyop]

"Interesting, but it seemed like anti-western, pro-communist China propaganda."

Personally, I don't care much for European style gangsters (fascists, proponents of empire) or commies. We could do well without either. As many other American men were trained, I was trained by my country to "kill commies for mommy."

Our early America was an unusual exception in history, before we were recently saturated with Euro-politics and leadership too recently descended from Europe and inadequately assimilated. See the difference between them and our early American leaders. See the difference between political Americans in general then and now.

I've got no national or world political religion. I don't agree with empire or any kind of very centralized government.

[familyop]

I know what you mean and have seen what you saw in Chinese history, though. An answer to part of that question is that Han Chinese folks seem to have always wanted some kind of empire or other. They have a kind of empire in communism—a familiar assurance (as they saw it) that was lacking in Chiang Kaishek & Co. (among other things).

But yes, Britain was also corrupt in some of the actions in Asia—not very nice ways to trade or very effective in fighting against communism. Other European nations were also guilty. The best antidote against communism is the early American morality that our new political, business and academic leadership has been replacing.

Contrary to what some would have us believe, early America (before the 1850s) wasn’t essentially Greek or Roman in religious philosophy or law. It was much more anti- and was based on morality. Some of the greatest benefits of early American influence lasted well into the 1900s.

[Birdsbane]

“History tells us that the time will come.”

Drugs have been around since before the first prostitute did it for a whole nutmeg and will continue to be long, long after anyone remembers that any of us ever existed. The Nazis sometimes used a concrete wall as a backstop for their bullets when trying to eliminate such “trash of society”. They were worse than those they sought to eliminate. Do you suggest that history repeat itself?

[Lurker]

Maybe they ought to loosen the restrictions on OxyContin and let these people get it through pharmacies at market prices. That would reduce the demand for the heroin AND put the crooks out of business.

But that would would make too much damned sense I suppose.

[not2be4gotten.com]

Very well stated.

One of the best posts on FR this month in MHO.

[not2be4gotten.com]

With heroin, they never quite know for sure how much it’s been cut.

That is how we lost Janis Joplin.

A great lose in my opinion.