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Most people don't realize that heroin isn't the kind of drug that teenagers try at parties to have a good time. Most people who end up on heroin become addicted to prescription opioids at first and then that leads to heroin when they can no longer get their "fix" from pills like oxycontin.
Someone should tell D.C. that wars are the same thing. Their addiction to it is killing thousands.
Oddly enough that is directly related to the OP. We protect opium fields in Afghanistan were 90 percent of the worlds opium is produced. The same opium fields that the Taliban almost eradicated.
The United States has spent $113 billion in Afghanistan since 2002, on reconstruction efforts alone—that money has been spent on the Afghan National Security Forces (for whom U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan to support fifteen years later), promoting good governance and "engaging in counternarcotics," according to Gen. John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
According to Sopko's testimony, 8.4 billion of those dollars were spent on counternarcotics efforts specifically.
What did the U.S. have to show for it? Massie couldn't get an answer, despite 90 percent of non-pharmaceutical opiate production happening in Afghanistan and opium being one of the most successful cash crops for Afghanistan since the American invasion. Massie suggested the rise in opium production in Afghanistan could be related to the heroin "epidemic" in the U.S.
Sopko said Afghan farmers were producing more opium "now then they did during the Taliban years." In fact, the U.S. spent $43 million in 2001 in support of the Taliban's poppy eradication efforts, just six months before 9/11 and seven months before the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan that toppled the theocratic regime. "It has been a successful export for the last 15 years that we have been there," Sopko said.
A vote in Congress to stop financing this only received ~60 votes in the house.
The president controls troop movements he can end this at any time. Trump is one of the worlds biggest drug dealers.
It worked better than telling them that pot is okay. Once the big push started to legalize pot everywhere, then the opioid crisis started to rear its ugly head. Coincidence?
It worked better than telling them that pot is okay. Once the big push started to legalize pot everywhere, then the opioid crisis started to rear its ugly head. Coincidence?
Oh. My. God. Meanwhile, my hometown is losing 1% of its population a year to opioid overdose. BTW, the average heroin user is a 38-year-old male not a teenager.
It worked better than telling them that pot is okay. Once the big push started to legalize pot everywhere, then the opioid crisis started to rear its ugly head. Coincidence?
False Narrative here.
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