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America's Great Strategic Loss – Afghanistan!
Interestingly, the drug problem that is afflicting the West has also been a major issue in Iran. Despite close relations between Iran and Afghanistan, Afghan drug production has had a devastating impact on Iran too. According to the U.N., Iran has over …
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35 countries where the US has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists
Ironically, supply disruptions due to the war and the Chinese Revolution had reduced the number of heroin addicts in the U.S. to 20,000 by 1945 and heroin addiction could have been virtually eliminated, but the CIA's infamous French Connection instead …
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Fighting addiction with a pill has potential for abuse, officials say
The spread of a “wonder drug” — one that could be instrumental in Ohio's campaign against heroin and prescription painkiller addiction — is threatened by its own potential for abuse. Nearly 1,800 Ohioans — or 18 percent more than the year before …
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America Abandons Afghanistan to Drug Lords
The question for many from the coalition countries who invaded Afghanistan in 2001 is: Have we really spent twice as much time and money as it took to fight World War II just to make Afghanistan safe for poppy farmers who are busy turning suburban kids …
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Prime Minister's package
Any amnesty scheme enabling those operating within the illegal economy to whiten their money, (including drug lords dealing in heroin, kidnapping/extortion money/terrorism, outright corruption where expenditure does not match known income sources …
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Afghan opium crop hits record high ahead of Western withdrawal: U.N.
… go to warlords jockeying for power ahead of a presidential election next year. The expansion of poppy to 209,000 hectares (516,000 acres), will embarrass Afghanistan's aid donors after more than 10 years of efforts to wean farmers off the crop …
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New York Loses Graffiti Landmark
The St. Louis Rams used to be the Los Angeles Rams, and those Rams were the first NFL team to integrate, in 1946 (interestingly, the Rams had their eye on a former UCLA running back named Jackie Robinson to be their test case, but he chose baseball …
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Afghanistan's short road to chaos
Warlords and drug lords maintain a stranglehold on the political narrative. This year's opium crop is set to break … Border skirmishes over the 2,640-km-long Durand Line have intensified over the past two years, with both sides blaming the other for …
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'Homeland' showrunner talks final stretch: Brody could die in Iran
We talked to showrunner Alex Gansa after Sunday's riveting ninth episode that included Brody (Damian Lewis) coming off heroin, reuniting with Carrie (Claire Danes) and departing on his dangerous mission. Will Brody … We've seen a lot of withdrawal …
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The Holistic Sanctuary Rebuts Boston University Advocating the Use of …
The two-part online series about Professor Walley's work, which emphasizes the use of Narcan (which is a trademarked version of naloxone) as the principal means of treating heroin addiction, has, in the judgment of The Holistic Sanctuary, a possibly …
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Question by swindle_the_shoemaker: Why are drugs illegal?
Usage rates of drugs become higher after prohibition is in place. As does crime. This is evident in both our own drug war now, and from the hellish prohibition of alcohol in the 20’s and 30’s.

Further more, our forefathers strictly noted that the purpose of government was to protect individual liberties. Is it not an individuals choice whether he chooses to use drugs? Whose rights does that person infringe if he intoxicates himself?

Isn’t regulation a much better approach? Drug dealers, gangs, cartels, and drug lords make huge profits because their product is so hot. Instead, why don’t we create a licensing system so drugs can be administered with proper control? This way the profits are so marginal that criminals lose their incentive and black markets are eliminated.    Read more...

Heroin Afghan Drug Wars 2 of 4 – Heroin Wars in Afghanistan between USA, EU, Russia and Iran. Government corruption and deception of the masses via the media by drug lords and war lords. And…