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Does the US (or other countries) attempt to destroy poppy fields in Middle East?
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:26 pm
I am watching this HBO Doc about Heroin in America and did some googling.
We all know heroin comes from poppy plants and I found an absurd stat that 90% of the poppy/opium supply comes from Afghanistan. I feel like that would create an easy target to destroy. Am I wrong?
Can we genetically engineer some sort of plant or insect that targets poppy plants and introduce it in the region? Can we crop dust these fields with pesticide from drones?
There has to be a way to frick up the supply chain. There is a heroin epidemic in America. The doctors are starting to realize it usually starts from pain pills, but the damage is done. Heroin is too easy to get.
I couldn't find anything about how the world is trying to stop the production of the poppy fields over there.
Or incentivize them to do it themselves? Obviously this would be the best option.
We all know heroin comes from poppy plants and I found an absurd stat that 90% of the poppy/opium supply comes from Afghanistan. I feel like that would create an easy target to destroy. Am I wrong?
Can we genetically engineer some sort of plant or insect that targets poppy plants and introduce it in the region? Can we crop dust these fields with pesticide from drones?
There has to be a way to frick up the supply chain. There is a heroin epidemic in America. The doctors are starting to realize it usually starts from pain pills, but the damage is done. Heroin is too easy to get.
I couldn't find anything about how the world is trying to stop the production of the poppy fields over there.
Or incentivize them to do it themselves? Obviously this would be the best option.
This post was edited on 1/20/16 at 3:56 pm
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Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:28 pm to TheCaterpillar
Engineering some sort of insect to be a pestilence could never backfire. No possible way.
Same thing with a virus.
Same thing with a virus.
This post was edited on 1/20/16 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:29 pm to TheCaterpillar
The amount of heroin addicts in the region is pretty alarming. Turns out that the Taliban was regulating it pretty well and then the US wiped them out which brought it all back to the streets. Pretty interesting Vice segment if you haven't seen it.
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:29 pm to TheCaterpillar
Think about what you're saying. How is our government going to sell weapons to terrorist groups if they're broke?
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:29 pm to TheCaterpillar
Big banking/wall street wants that drug money flowing in, brah.
Narco dollars for beginners.
HSBC settlement proves drug war is a joke.
quote:
In late June 1999, numerous news services, including Associated Press, reported that Richard Grasso, Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange flew to Colombia to meet with a spokesperson for Raul Reyes of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), the supposed "narco terrorists" with whom we are now at war.
The purpose of the trip was "to bring a message of cooperation from U.S. financial services" and to discuss foreign investment and the future role of U.S. businesses in Colombia.
Some reading in between the lines said to me that Grasso's mission related to the continued circulation of cocaine capital through the US financial system. FARC, the Colombian rebels, were circulating their profits back into local development without the assistance of the American banking and investment system. Worse yet for the outlook for the US stock market's strength from $500 billion - $1 trillion in annual money laundering - FARC was calling for the decriminalization of cocaine.
Narco dollars for beginners.
HSBC settlement proves drug war is a joke.
This post was edited on 1/20/16 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:30 pm to TheCaterpillar
The US is a country, not a county
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:31 pm to TheCaterpillar
Nothing wrong with a maester giving you a little milk of the poppy..
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:31 pm to TheCaterpillar
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Heroin is too easy to get.
Hook a brotha up
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:31 pm to TheCaterpillar
If we started blowing up their only real industry it would create ssssooooo many more terrorists.
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:32 pm to PapaPogey
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The amount of heroin addicts in the region is pretty alarming. Turns out that the Taliban was regulating it pretty well and then the US wiped them out which brought it all back to the streets. Pretty interesting Vice segment if you haven't seen it.
Ohhhh yeah I remember.
Can't remember what they said the western world is doing about it now though. I vaguely remember something about US military involvement.
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:34 pm to TheCaterpillar
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:34 pm to PapaPogey
The biggest reason heroin is becoming so popular is because the Feds clamped down so tight on pain pill distribution.
The junkies need their shite
The junkies need their shite
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:34 pm to lsu480
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If we started blowing up their only real industry it would create ssssooooo many more terrorists.
This shite actually funds the terrorists.
And we can let them continue to grow pot
AND I don't want to openly do it to where we get blame. Maybe we should drop some fricking kudzu on their arse in the middle of the night and show em what the people in North Mississippi have to deal with
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:34 pm to TheCaterpillar
It's really a plague right now, esp in BR.
Coke is dead. H is back in a big way. It's terrifying.
Coke is dead. H is back in a big way. It's terrifying.
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:35 pm to TheCaterpillar
Maybe I don't understand the premise of the question, but how could the US control the world's opium supply if the fields were destroyed?
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:35 pm to notiger1997
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The biggest reason heroin is becoming so popular is because the Feds clamped down so tight on pain pill distribution.
The junkies need their shite
No doubt.
It started with over prescribing of pain meds...that is being curtailed.
Now we have a million folks with opiate dependency seeking cheaper/easier fixes.
They'll eventually die out, but in the mean time lets frick up the poppy/opium supply chain somehow. Just make it a LITTLE harder to get the stuff.
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:35 pm to NYNolaguy1
destroying it is controlling it IMO
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:37 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Maybe I don't understand the premise of the question, but how could the US control the world's opium supply if the fields were destroyed?
By destroying the fields, wouldn't that destroy the supply?
If 90% of it is in Afghanistan, we have a central place to target. Heroin isn't just an issue in the US, its the whole world, including most of Europe. I'm sure we could get a joint action thing going.
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:40 pm to TheCaterpillar
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Heroin isn't just an issue in the US, its the whole world, including most of Europe. I'm sure we could get a joint action thing going
And who would stand to lose the most money by destroying these fields?
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