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Global Drug Use Down, Except For...
According to a U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime report, drugs are finally losing the global war on drugs. Seizures are up. Colombia's strapping coca production is down. Pot is losing popularity worldwide, and U.S. users are less interested in blow. The smuggling efforts of the occasional OC mom notwithstanding, the recent data look promising.
Except, um, for Afghanistan, host to some 30,000 international troops, birthplace of more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, where the province of Helmand alone is now cultivating three times as much opium as the entire second-largest-producing country, military junta- and general chaos-ruled Burma, which isn't even occupied by the Red Cross.
Though drug enforcement successes have thwarted some traditional trafficking routes, the report states, smugglers are instead setting their sights on Africa as the hot new transport spot. So, users and pushers, take heart: Even if average production is down, the ease with which goods move around a global marketplace should keep prices on their hard two-decade decline. Happy International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking!
—Nicole McClelland
US Government conducts two wars at once (Afghan War and Drug War), on the same turf, and gets lousy results from both.
But hey..., let's have 'em totally run the health care system.
"Pot is losing popularity". That is true, but there is always demand for quality for the medical users that have the doctor's note(the Doc's note is very important folks). The self medication of Jack Daniels is no substitute, so says the Doc.
If we continue the drug war for another decade or more one of three things will happen:
1] People will get disgusted with all the new more disgusting drugs like Crystal Meth and Crack Cocaine and call for an end.
2] People will get desensitized to all the new disgusting drugs developed by the slimeballs in the criminal world [not to be confused with the slimeballs in public office - most of whom wouldn't put a contract out on competitors or drug war critics].
3] Drugs will totally lose their appeal and demand will plummet among potential users. With thirty billion in drug ads promoting zero tolerance for discomfort this is totally unlikely.
Why don't you have Dr. Alfred W. McCoy write an article for MoJo based on his book The politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade? Our Boys in Black Ops have kept the trade on its feet since WW II.
We should stick with the
We should stick with the good news and act further in lowering world wide drug production. I don't really know how things go in Afghanistan, how is it possible for this country to produce such huge amounts of drugs? Where do they find the space and the time to do that? You can hardly find a drug detox in that country but they are the greatest opium producers in the world. How is that?
I recently came accross your
I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog.
