Afghan heroin

By: James Burge

I was perusing the internet and came across some amazing pictures of what appear to be US troupes in fields of Poppies. I had heard it described that Heroin production only requires one to cut the poppy blub allowing a black tar to be expelled, this black tar is Heroin. The flowing picture seems to speak for itself; it shows an Afghan local, the poppies, the heroin, and the soldiers, there to secure it?

It is interesting because of the whole Iran-Contra issue, where cocaine usage soared especially in pour, predominately African-American ‘Ghetto’s.’  The idea being either people in these area’s begin drug use, or they are involved in the sale and the resulting violence surrounding the drug trade. Now we are seeing an increase in the prescription of Heroin derivatives such as OxyContin, prescribed for pain, usually due to elective surgeries.

In both 2001 and 2002, OxyContin’s sales exceeded $1 billion, and prescriptions were over 7 million. The drug became Purdue’s main product, accounting for 90 percent of the company’s total prescription sales by 2001.

-OxyContin Abuse and Deiversion and Efforts to Address the Problem  

 

The idea seems to be getting OxyContin in every household, so that someone gets addicted enough to turn to Heroin because it is significantly cheaper on the street than OxyContin. Why is it cheaper? Because the CIA (with help from the Military-Industrial complex) has been shipping it to the US from Afghanistan. The idea behind this is simple, to disenfranchise individuals either due to a drug conviction (hence the War on drugs, put them away for 25-life) or voter apathy due to chemical dependence.