Is our presence in Afghanistan related to the amount of heroin killing our youth??

Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation, 1994–2016 (hectares)

In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, collaborating with the United Nations to eradicate heroin production in Afghanistan, declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time.[16] The ban was effective only briefly due to the deposition of the Taliban in 2002.

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There is no war on drugs, there is a war FOR drugs...

It is well-documented that the U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world – protected drug operations.
Big American banks also launder money for drug cartels. Indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. And the U.S. drug money laundering is continuing to this day.

Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production

Top U.S. Government Officials Admit that Our Government Has Repeatedly Protected Drug Smugglers

originally posted by: vonclod
Heroin is so passe..everybody dying from Fentanyl now, that is brought to us courtesy of China.
I'm not even kidding about the # of people dying, 3 or 4 a day here in the Vancouver area, going on a couple of years now.

Fentanyl. That's your culprit. It's way too easy for drug traffickers to get a hold of Chinese produced fentanyl and carfentanil these days and it only takes a few micrograms of that poison mixed into heroin to put you in a body bag. As someone already mentioned, it generally starts with prescription opioids progressing to heroin - much cheaper and more powerful - and one day an unsuspecting addict gets a bag laced with fentanyl and a funeral ensues. Very sad.

Side note: Recently, the NYT had a piece on the opioid/heroin epidemic in Ohio, where the county coroner for Dayton had received so many bodies from overdose deaths that the morgue and even local funeral homes couldn't take them, so they began holding bodies in refrigerated trucks.

originally posted by: kloejen

Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation, 1994–2016 (hectares)

In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, collaborating with the United Nations to eradicate heroin production in Afghanistan, declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time.[16] The ban was effective only briefly due to the deposition of the Taliban in 2002.

source

There is no war on drugs, there is a war FOR drugs...

It is well-documented that the U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world – protected drug operations.
Big American banks also launder money for drug cartels. Indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. And the U.S. drug money laundering is continuing to this day.

Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production

Top U.S. Government Officials Admit that Our Government Has Repeatedly Protected Drug Smugglers

Great post thanks for the info.

a reply to: toysforadults

Dont blame current Afganistan involvement...Nothing new...its been happening for over 70 +years. We had famous people and everyday kids addicted to heroin.

Many 1920's and up jazz, rock and blues musicians and singers. Still....Clapton, Joplin, Holiday, Miles Davis, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn...Cobain...the list is endless

Afghanistan sits on one of the biggest lithium reserves on the planet.
Mainly mined by children. Chances are the lithium in your smartphone was mined by one of these poor souls.
Combine that with the CIA's cash cow heroine and you can see why America and the west is so interested in Afghanistan. When you see pictures of US troops guarding poppy fields it's pretty apparent the intent of our occupation.

I also suspect large sums of heroins are intentionally allowed to cross the border into Russia to continue the epidemic they are battling. I guess the plus side is it's America doing these screwed up things rather than ISIS.

a reply to: BeefNoMeat

Ya it has gotten completely out of hand, then you can factor in the ambulance service being constantly used to try and save overdose victims..the ambulance service here is already underfunded. People in car accidents and other non drug use issues are being made to wait unacceptable times, because the service is dealing with overdoses.

a reply to: vonclod

I have a friend who is an emt and she is 70% of the time picking up old people falling down, drunks and ODs.

I guess each region is affected differently. It seems like the more depressed areas are having it worse.

Do you guys think this has anything to do with Chinese and Russian opium trade?

a reply to: toysforadults

Have you heard of Carfentinal?

Synthetic opiod 10,000 times more potent than morphine.

Wonder if these synthetics will do away with the need for opium poppy production.

a reply to: D8Tee

Yeah hasn't worked its way into this area yet.

This is another case for legalization IMO.

a reply to: toysforadults

What area? There's no way I can prove it, but if there is heroin in your area, there's fentanyl. Fentanyl isn't sold to users, it's "cut" into the heroin. There are sublingual fentanyl patches, but you're not going to your dealer and copping a bag of fentanyl. Same with it's equally deadly cousin, carfentanil.

a reply to: BeefNoMeat

there are plenty of fentanyl related deaths in the area

a reply to: toysforadults

Gotcha. Misread the comment. My bad

But I'd be surprised if the carfentanil isn't in Vancouver -- it's all from China and is easier to order online. You can have the USPS deliver it to your door -- unless they (DEA) put it on the derivatives CSA list. I know you could as late as 2016...crazy.

a reply to: BeefNoMeat

Elephant sedative carfentanil detected on Vancouver streets for first time

Vancouver Police say they have detected the deadly opioid carfentanil for the first time in a Vancouver drug seizure.

Health Canada has confirmed the presence of carfentanil in drugs that were seized in the Downtown Eastside on Sept. 20. 2016.

Police confiscated several grams of what they believed to be heroin from a man in the north lane of Powell Steet and Heatley Avenue after reports that the man was carrying a firearm.

Carfentanil
Carfentanil resembles table salt but is 100 times more potent than fentanyl. (Canadian Border Services)

Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl and is used to tranquillize elephants and other large animals. It can be fatal to humans in an amount of 20 micrograms, which is less than a grain of salt.

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a reply to: D8Tee

Thanks for that. It's just too cheap and too 'good' for it to be off the streets in a metro area of a couple million or so that is as close to China as any city on the West Coast.

Sidebar: I watched a "Drugs Inc." show on NatGeo that followed some dope dealers that said the best piece of advesrtising is an overdose death from your (dealer) product. It means it's 'good'. That's truly sick.

Announcement coming from President Trump at 9pm ET on Monday 8.21.2017

AMMAN, Reuters - President Donald Trump has made a decision on the United States' strategy for Afghanistan after a "sufficiently rigorous" review process, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Sunday.

Full Article at: www.reuters.com...

Why has Afghanistan been such a low profile war, in comparison to Iraq? For that matter is our involvement in Afghanistan even considered to be a "war"?

originally posted by: toysforadults
We have a multi thousand troop presence in Afghanistan to this day and 90% of heroin in the US comes from Afghanistan through Mexico. You would think the cartels would be listed as a terrorist organization for working with the Taliban and ISIS to move their heroin into the US.

Here's where America's heroin comes from

Heroin consumed in the US comes mainly from Afghanistan and Mexico, members of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said in Mexico City on Wednesday, March 2.

Article from 2016 but that's besides the point.

The question you should be asking yourself is why do we have a continued presence in Afghanistan and how does their heroin get into our country in such large volumes and how much money does it generate for terrorist?

So if any of you are heroin addicts know you are funding ISIS, the Taliban and massive atrocity in the Middle East. You have blood on your hands.

Afghan warlord returns to Kabul after nearly 20 years

Oh suddenly look who returns... an Afghan warlord! Just in time to ramp up the war effort! The CIA must need money for something black budget.... they must increase their presence in the ME, but why?

(CNN)One of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has returned to the Afghan capital Kabul after nearly two decades in exile, reported Tolo, an Afghan news agency.

The return of Hekmatyar, a former prime minister, comes eight months after the government signed a peace deal with representatives of Hezb-e-Islami -- the insurgent faction led by the warlord.

Apparently there is a massive nationalist movement happening in Afghanistan and they want us out. Looks like we will be going back to war.

(but for what?)

Why are we still there?

The Iran-Contra Affair

Ronald Reagan's efforts to eradicate Communism spanned the globe, but the insurgent Contras' cause in Nicaragua was particularly dear to him. Battling the Cuban-backed Sandinistas, the Contras were, according to Reagan, "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers." Under the so-called Reagan Doctrine, the CIA trained and assisted this and other anti-Communist insurgencies worldwide.

While the rest of your are paying attention to how many scoops of ice cream Trump had on his taco's and how many poops he took yesterday and how many wipes he used to clean his butt big things are happening behind the scenes.

Trump serves as a fantastic opportunity to keep the masses divided and docile while big strings are being pulled behind the scenes.

Time to wake back up and start paying attention to whats really happening.

Every week someone on my timeline dies to heroin or someone I know's family member and times to cut the head off of the snake.

They grow a large amount of poppy's in Afghanistan, didn't you know! It must make it's way over here without any problems.

Around here it's mostly Fentanyl killing people..an average of 3 deaths per day, the stuff comes from China.

Money and profit is it's own morality.
TPB will go anywhere, do anything for it.
It's the great corporate mandate - more profit!