War on Drugs Meets War on Terror: A Sadistic For-Prophit Smokescreen

America has another dirty secret. We consume the most drugs out of any country in the world. Why would that be? Is it because we're too spoiled, or accustomed to instant gratification? Or perhaps selfish, stressed out from over-achievement, or possess weak will? How about morally corrupt? No, I don't think so, even if the rest of the world does.

So what is then? Is it because we just happen to have a lot of greedy drug dealers running around, trying to steal our children’s souls? That's what the D.E.A. wants you to believe. If so, why can't our multi-trillion dollar failed drug war stop them? Allow me to offer an alternative theory...

What if the greatest country in the world also has the most hypocritical and corrupt government in the world? What if the same government that pretends to valiantly and diligently get the drugs off the streets is the same entity putting them there to begin with? What if I told you that since 2001, about 95% of the heroin on the U.S. market has been manufactured from opium imported from Afghanistan, a country under U.S. occupation since '01, where as prior to then, it was coming from opium grown in Nepal?

Just before the Bush administration invaded Afghanistan, the Taliban of all people, had successfully managed to curb the opium production in Afghanistan. As evil as they were, they were against the production of Opium in their territory. This was acknowledged by the U.N., but then immediately after the US invaded Afghanistan, NATO pretended that it never happened and started harvesting what the Taliban failed to eradicate, and replanting the poppies, while publicly pretending that the poppies were grown by the Taliban all along, and claiming a commitment to eradicate them.  You can read the full story at the previous link.

So, what would our government want all this opium for? That answer likely is connected to what opium is used for, and we all know that answer; to make painkillers, to make money. The CIA has been running drugs for a long time, and has used their power to keep the African-American population in the grip of the criminal injustice system. They use the prophits (presumably) to fund their own private wars and illegal operations without oversight. All of this is simply another link in the drug-war cycle. I've written about the privatized prison industry before, and how lucrative it is. Many Americans wonder why our drug policy is so senseless, and why despite the insane amounts of money spent on 'fighting drugs', the drugs are only getting cheaper and more available. Many of you wonder why there are so many people in prison who never hurt anyone but themselves, and why rather than helping these people, we incarcerate them.

I've been connecting this time-line in my head for a while now, and it's time to share it with you.. Although this could go back another 100 years, this blog is about more recent/current events.


1995: Oxycontin comes on the market, making prescription painkiller abuse a serious, well known public health threat. It is the best selling prescription drug since Bayer Heroin.
2000: Drug Addiction and Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000) is enacted, allowing the partial opiate agonist buprenorphine to be dispensed by private doctors, both saving lives and making life as a junkie much easier to deal with.
2001: U.S. forces invade Afghanistan, and suddenly, highly pure heroin #4 hits the streets of the United States. President Bush says that "Remember, if you use drugs, you're supporting the terrorists," as well as things like "Lock 'em away, just lock them all away." [when asked about what to do with drug the increasing amount of drug addicts]
2004: The monstrous Prison-Industrial complex is booming. There are now about 100 times as many private prisons in the United States as there were 10 years ago, and the amount of incarcerated people has quadrupled. About 60% of the inmates are serving time for non-violent drug related offences.
2005: By now, about 95% of all heroin on the U.S. streets comes from Afgansitan, a country our government was, and still to some extent occupies.
2012: Obama is caught selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, in a joint effort with the CIA. He says he sold them the guns so that he could later catch the criminals who used them. Yes, seriously...
2014: Tens of thousands of immigrant children flee South America into the United States because of escalating drug-cartel related violence. Although this problem could easily be fixed by legalizing cannabis in the U.S. (putting most of the cartels out of business), and creating legal jobs both domestically and across the border, it hasn't happened.


"No sense makes sense." --Charles Mansion