if afghanistan was 90% of the worlds heroin supplier, why is  there so much heroin still being shipped in?
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Iraq has oil--that's why we're there!\n\nColombia has cocaine--that's why we're there!\n\nThe Balkans are the MAJOR east-west drug thoroughfare--that's why we're there!\n\nAfghanistan has heroin--that's why we went there!
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Good question. Here is an answer. Opium comes from the poppy harvested in Afghanistan. It is used to fund the Taliban and other terrorist organizations. \n Morphine (INN)  is an extremely powerful opiate analgesic drug and is the principal active agent in opium. \n Heroin....Well you know those wonderful people who make that safe product called aspirin? Bayer... They invented Heroin. They were the first company to synthesis Morphine into Heroine. Look in your dictionary under Heroin. \nCocaine has been around a long time. It is from the coca plant grown in South America. It is processed to make it into a more powerful agent. It is rumored that it was once  in Coke but in an inert way. The type used was not the same as Cocaine. It was closer to the coca leaf. So it is not true that Cocaine was used in Coke. \n IN the case of heroin it was invented to be used as a narcotic to put people under for surgery. Morphine was used to kill pain as was Laudum. People who had cancer used it. \nNow your argument about Pharmaceutical companies is that they make mistakes,push their drugs on the market too soon. They are drug pushers. They contribute heavily to both parties. They are funded by insurance companies and HMO's as well as by doctors. They also invented these opiates.\nMarijuana is an weed or an herb. It is similar to growing Basil. The synthetic extract is THC. It too has been synthesised to make Caneb and angel dust. Both are dangerous.\n Ecstacy was not a harmful drug contrary to what people are told. But when the drug is on the open market with no regulation it is anyones guess what you will get. It was like LSD a legaly made drug. It was experimental and never hit the market because the FDA never approved it. Both were used as psycotropics. The military misused LSD. Therapist used Ecstacy.\nIf the govenment can't collect taxes on it they will be  pressed to iradicate it. \nCigarettes are legal. But alchohol is restricted. Try ordering a case of wine from California to Utah. \nYour God answer assumes there is a God. Maybe but if so man made drugs are chemicals and everything is a chemical. We are chemicals. So God made Chemicals.    \n If you want to smoke pot go ahead but look at the Bong pipe and how encrusted it is. Watch it crack from the resin. That is what is hapening to your lungs. Not to mention it makes you slow in the head. I stopped smoking due to allergys and because I was tired of being as dumb as my friends.\nA safe way to enjoy pot is to put it in brownies. No lung damage and it actually has a stronger effect. You can even use the cheap stuff. You can grow up to six plants in California. It is decriminalized. It should be legal but then plan on it costing more and becoming weaker and regulated.
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They are not unrelated. However, prior to the invasion of Iraq, AQ and the Taliban were indirectly linked to Saddam's regime. Saddam supported terrorism and anti-US movements in general, rather than specifically focusing on the advancement of Osama bin Laden and the agenda of the Taliban or AQ.\n\nRecent activity in southern Afghanistan can partly be linked to increased Taliban activity (which usually spikes following the spring thaw of the ice covering mountain passes), and partly to tribal infighting and territorial disputes among drug smugglers. As NATO extends its forces into southern Afghanistan, the violence will most likely spike and then subside as arrests are made and terrorists, criminals and warlords are killed during the offensive and battles among themselves.\n\nThe technology being used is not necessarily more advanced. What has improved (unfortunately) are the tactics being employed both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Terrorists, insurgents and drug smugglers are learning from operational successes and failures and are adapting techniques and placement and amount of explosives in a more efficient and unfortunately effective manner. Insurgents have begun using shaped charges more effectively to focus the blast pattern, which makes the explosion more deadly for the victim.\n\nLong way of saying I agree with your point that AQ and the Taliban were connected, at least indirectly, to Saddam.
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First off if they did, then the DEA would have to be disbanded and that won't happen.\nSecond and probably more important, drugs is a big business here, money is shoveled hand over fist under a lot of tables and behind closed doors.\nIt has been reported a few years ago, the government actually paid someone in Columbia from a slush fund over $50 million to grow Mary Jane and import it elsewhere of their choosing. It was if the interested party had outside interests.\nActually how true this is is anyone's guess, but I wouldn't put it past someone in upper heiravhy to do it.\nAnother reason it won't happen ... packaging.  It would have to be run just like a regular tobacco plant.  This means artificial additives will be added. Filters placed on them to reduce actual flaor, and the pricing alone would be out of sight.\nTen packs per carton would fall somewhere between 150-500 per carton and not everyone has that kind of money to shell out, though most of that cost would fall to taxes, roughly 80%.\nThose are my thoughts on why it wouldn't happen and there is one more.\nParents would get their bowels in an uproar over the easy availability! LOL
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They sheltered Osama Bin Laden. He killed about 3,000 Americans.\nThat's one reason why.\nTaliban killed thousands of non Pathan ethnic Afghanis.\nThat's why.\nThe narcotic policy was a good one but other Taliban acts far outweigh it.
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Another division or so and we might actually become effective at stopping both the human traffic and drugs. I think people or underestimating the positive effect this could have against the drug insurgency. Mexico has always been a major player and the drugs have contributed to the immigration problem.
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Finally, someone who's been reading the de-classified documents besides me.  Bush Sr. was the best drug dealer, EVER.  His CIA ran the Drugs from which airport...Mena, Ark.  Who was governor?  Yup, Clinton!!!!  People WAKE UP.  Bush and Clinton have been in bed since the early 80's.\n\nDude, the War on Drugs enabled the USG to DOUBLE DIP.  Just like today:  under the Taliban, growing poppies in Afghan was a death sentence.  Now, under US/Afghan rule, Afghanistan has regained its spot as #1 poppy producing country.  HELLO!!!\n\nThe Afghan War was never funded by America until the Iraq war began...why...because we teamed with poppy producers to share the wealth..billions, while the USG kept billions to FIGHT the very drugs used to finance the downfall of the Taliban.  Granted, this is my own interpretation of the data...and I will not be proven correct or incorrect until the documents are declassified, in about 40 years, but, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then you bet ur azz, its a duck.\n\nP.S.  The Savings and Loan scandal of the 80's was also a cover up...but you need to find that out for yourselves.
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In the Mideast it was done for heroin and oil...but different area,s have different assets.\nThe CIA,s role is to instigate, manipulate events that warrant our intervention ...thus the Corporate agenda behind the farce can succeed.\nOh yeah wave that Flag..they love blind patriotism.
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muslims need heroin to fund terroism
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The goverment? they supply the drugs?
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Overtly, the US invaded Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and find Osama Bin Laden.  Neither of these has yet been completely accomplished.\n\nThe Taliban continues and last month had even made a bit of a comeback.  The conditions, such as the treatment of women, are even worse now than they were at the time of the Taliban.\n\nThe reason is because the Bush administration is full of idoits that don't know how to fight wars.  In Afghanistan, like Iraq, there were far too few troops sent to do the job.\n\nUnlike Iraq, the troops in Afghanistan never intended to occupy the country.  The administration naively believed that the Afghani people would greet the troops as liberators and band together to establish a western-style democracy.  This hasn't happened.\n\nToday, the new Afghani government controls only Kabul.  The rest of the country is in the hands of warlords who are at least as bad as, or worse than, the Taliban.  The Taliban contines to hold some territory as well.\n\nLaws are almost non-existant in Afganistan, and the US has done next to nothing to help.  Kabul still hasn't been rebuilt since the Soviet invasion, and the US has allocated no money to do so.  The "aid" that the US does provide isn't even sufficient to train and maintian the security forces that act as the new government's personal bodyguards.\n\nIf the US left today, it would hardly make any difference.  The number of troops and resources dedicated to Afghanistan is so small that it might not even be noticed of they were withdrawn.\n\nThe handling of this war should be a source of great shame to the Untied States.  The Afghani people were the poorest in the world before the invasion, and now they are even worse off.\n\nAmerica, the richest country on the planet, could easily rebuild the country and could do much to help restore order, but won't.  No reason has been given for this since the American press and people have already forgotton about Afghanistan.
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There you go Pussycat, you answered your own question. You gotta stop doing that, you're wasting 5 points. The governement could care less about the people coming over here, it's one less thing for them to worry about! If thier government themselves werent so far gone (drug wise) perhaps they'd have a reasonalbe person over there making correct decisions! the entire governement is made up of crack heads and greedy men! Do you think they care what happens to anyone other then themselves??
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As crazy as it seems.. they probably should be searching all fishing boats and every other kind of boat for drugs.  The drugs are getting here somehow.. Should be checking all planes more carefullly too.
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No. It is this involvement that keeps creating reactions over there against us.\nThe truth is that the US-backed central government has made all sorts of deals with local warlords and provinical warlords and feudal drug lords because it doesnt have enough power. As a result, we are supporting a bunch of criminals/former Taliban by propping up the Afghan regimes.\n\nSince the defeat of the Taliban all these warlords have become 'legitimate' politicians and are resuming the export of opium and other drugs. That is the order Western countries are maintaining.
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The stock market would be perturbed. Other forms of criminality would know a sharp increase. The agriculture of some countries would be severed and so the local economies. Petty crimes would know a rise in some areas. \n\nAccording to the DEA and to many other experts, (illegal) estimates vary. The drug market would represent about 3.5 to 8 percent of the world GDP. This estimate include all by-products, which are cover up companies and business activities, legal fee and lawyer incomes, budgets of drug enforcement administrations, shipping, prisons costs, etc.
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This answer is mostly a matter of opinion as I don't have a job anywhere close to the DEA or any other law enforcement agency.  But it is based on years of Life Experience and the desire to be well informed.  Mostly, the reason drug trafficking has not been stopped in it's tracks is because of the money.  So many jobs would be eliminated and so many "donations and contributions" would be lost, that lawmakers aren't to willing to toughen the laws required to stop drug trafficking.  This unwillingness on behalf of our lawmakers makes it easier to bring drugs into the states.  Yes, the grunts out in the field are trying their hardest, but their hands are tied by the lawmakers.  Imagine if you will, a hot stove top burner.  You touch it and you learn to not touch it again.  Now if the burner is just warm, you're more likely to touch it again.  Traffickers are caught everyday but the penalties are so cool, that they just go back out and do it again.  Lawmaker know this, so they keep the penalties lenient.  So, yes.  Trafficking is allowed due to the Contributions it generates.
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I heard 250,000 civilians in Iraq alone.  And it's not just Afghanistan and Iraq.  There are other conflicts the U.S. has had a hand in that they WILL NEVER tell you about.  If you think about that sh!t, I don't think you'll want to keep reading what you've been reading.