The nation's top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their "reefer blindness" and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public's health and safety, as well as to the environment.
John P. Walters, President Bush's drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn't hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties. Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an update on the "Operation Alesia" marijuana-eradication effort.
"Don't buy drugs. They fund violence and terror," he said.
Awesome, such bewildering complete and utter madness
This guy reminds me of Dr. Bloomquist from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I didn't even know they made this particular type of human anymore... thought his kind went extinct back in the early sixties.
also, funny thing how since the US "liberated" Afghanistan from the Taliban, the opium growers are flooding the world's drug markets with an abundance of cheap heroin
About the heroin: plans for buying the stuff up and reselling it to medical companies, or simply buying up supply and destroying it has been floating around since the invasion. I can't grasp why they don't act on it.
Instead they go around and burn the occasional poppy field and antagonize random dirtpoor farmers. Idiots.
But i have entertained the thought of the coalition not effectively handeling the situation to create excuses for remaining in Afghanistan indefenitely.
It's not very interesting, business wise. Heroin is increasingly unpopular in western countries and with all the supply so high and demand so low - prices are bound to be low*. Plus, it seems like a high risk endeavour.
Think of all the tedious goddamn micromanagement you'd have to go through. You'd have to buy off everyone, defend your drugstooge's territory, make sure everything runs smoothly and for what exactly? A couple of billion? There's a lot more money to be made in embezzeling reconstruction effort funds and selling oil transport rights to multinationals, surely.
*talking out my ass here, really. I wouldn't know, but it's what i reckon.
Ryoki wrote:It's not very interesting, business wise. Heroin is increasingly unpopular in western countries and with all the supply so high and demand so low - prices are bound to be low*. Plus, it seems like a high risk endeavour.
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*talking out my ass here, really. I wouldn't know, but it's what i reckon.
Ryoki wrote:It's not very interesting, business wise. Heroin is increasingly unpopular in western countries and with all the supply so high and demand so low - prices are bound to be low*. Plus, it seems like a high risk endeavour.
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*talking out my ass here, really. I wouldn't know, but it's what i reckon.
They haven't crushed the opium trade in Afghanistan because there is little or no other form of employment for the locals. The U.S. should be the one handling the matter, building the country back up but because they decided to invade Iraq before actually fixing things in Afghanistan first, they now have their hands full. The coalition forces just don't have manpower and resources to do what they need to. The U.N. is now a crumbling useless relic of what it used to be.
I'm not saying that there aren't possibly other reasons why they haven't fixed the Middle East by now. Especially given the amount of war profiteering going on with Iraq. The powers that be are sucking it all up.
What's that supposed to mean? You can't physically maintain that level? Prices are going up? Down? Make sense.
I have a buddy that did it at about that level for 4 years. He's been on methadone for nearly 2 years now, but I think he's ramping down his dosage.
i just don't see anyone on tha shit be productive in any level. I suspect that they would simply run out of resources to continue that type of lifestyle...I'm not talking about the well off who are progressively destructing their good fortune.
His productivity did suffer quite a bit. That's one of the reasons he left his job here. Even after he cleaned up, people still had the perception that he wasn't a good resource and he had to move on to get a clean slate.
coke needs to make a comeback so the "drug czar" can back the fuck off of weed.
soon as i can get my hands on some seed i'll certainly join the turrorists. unfortunately the canadian border isn't as porus as it used to be, so quality supply has been dwindling around these parts.
most of the local grow is "lifestyle" hippie shwag.
at any rate... if the ONDCP wants to attack anything, they should really wise up and go after meth.
that shit is pure evil.
