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Hugo Chavez:
Afghan heroin supply on rise across America
By Garrett Therolf
Los Angeles Times
Published: Wednesday, December 27, 2006

LOS ANGELES - The amount of high-quality heroin throughout America is surging because of an increasing supply from Afghanistan, and with it the fear that record-breaking poppy harvests after the U.S. invasion are fueling more addictions and overdose deaths back home.

Heroin-related deaths in Los Angeles County soared from 137 in 2002 to 282 in 2004 before dropping to 239 in 2005, still a jump of nearly 75 percent in three years, a period when other factors contributing to overdose deaths remained unchanged, experts said.

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http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/27/a3.nat.heroin.1227.p1.php?section=nation_world

sandycoosworth:
its no secret that the taliban destroyed their entire crop in jan 2001 (i believe this may have been because of overproduction the prior year) and many of the fields had been replaced with crops .... well by december 2001 (after the us led invasion had begun) opium production was back at record levels

the war on drugs mirrors the war on terrorism in that the US(and pretty much every other government) spends billions ostensibly fighting it, while at the same profiting from it

Camel Jockey:
heroin is being smuggled in by whom you ask? Not the mafia anymore, but rather by south asian immigrants. a amonia and bleach wrap = no detection by police dogs.

sandycoosworth:

--- Quote from: Camel  Jockey on December 28, 2006, 07:54:18 AM ---heroin is being smuggled in by whom you ask? Not the mafia anymore, but rather by south asian immigrants. a amonia and bleach wrap = no detection by police dogs.

--- End quote ---

actually, most of the US drugs come via plane, formerly to air force bases, but more recently to flight schools when the lid was blown off of that ... even clinton talked about the illegal drug activities at a base in arkansas and implicated the federal government (this was before he was pres)

Camel Jockey:

--- Quote from: sandycoosworth on December 28, 2006, 07:59:14 AM ---actually, most of the US drugs come via plane, formerly to air force bases, but more recently to flight schools when the lid was blown off of that ... even clinton talked about the illegal drug activities at a base in arkansas and implicated the federal government (this was before he was pres)

--- End quote ---

I never knew this.. But I do know that a certain portion is smuggled in by immigrants, as it's pretty easy to get away with a 1-4 kg shipment. And I've also seen pakis bragging around the NYC area about doing it.

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