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Pot was a huge part of the Mexican economy and exactly at the time Western states began to legalize pot, the drug wars between cartels in Mexico...all the violence etc. heightened as their competing market share plummeted. Destroying the Mexican market is not something we want to do right now.
What an amazing coincidence....in the same exact time frame that Western states were legalizing weed, the same exact countries that used to be famous for their weed imports to the US suddenly switched to really pushing heroin instead!
On the same token, marijuana will never be legalized, there is too much money in the for profit prison industrial complex and Big Pharma going to politicians.
The heroin problem is caused by the opioid pushing drug companies . Pusdy congress does nothing about it.
People start off wh prescribed pills. Turn into addicts . Then go for cheaper heroin.
The heroin problem is caused by the opioid pushing drug companies . Pusdy congress does nothing about it.
The heroin problem is caused by the opioid pushing drug companies . Pusdy congress does nothing about it.
While theoretically it is possible to progress to recreational heroin through usage of prescription drugs containing opiates, I wouldn't say that is very common.
What do you want congress to do? Ban drugs with opiates in them? Fat chance! They have soldiers guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan for the cartels and pharmaceutical companies as we speak.
And no, I don't want to see opiate drugs banned. They can help quite a bit if they are used properly. However.............doctors keep their patients on opiates far longer than they really need to. Doctors should look a bit more closely about how they prescribe opiates to people because they can be highly addictive.
Incidentally, opiate medications are Schedule II drugs, heroin is classed as Schedule I (not medically beneficial and highly addictive).
Strangely enough, for some reason the DEA still has marijuana as a Schedule I drug as well.
And no, I don't want to see opiate drugs banned. They can help quite a bit if they are used properly. However.............doctors keep their patients on opiates far longer than they really need to. Doctors should look a bit more closely about how they prescribe opiates to people because they can be highly addictive.
Incidentally, opiate medications are Schedule II drugs, heroin is classed as Schedule I (not medically beneficial and highly addictive).
Strangely enough, for some reason the DEA still has marijuana as a Schedule I drug as well.
Heroin does have practical usage in regards to physical therapy and pain suppression, and is used rarely in other countries.
As always, my opinion is that the government should mind its own fucking business, and stop trying to control markets to favor corporate special interests. If they legalized opium, I'd probably start growing it for sale here.
Yippee! Legal weed for all in the US!! What could go wrong? Answer: it's already going wrong...
As usual the stoner brain only examines the surface of the issue.
Look for, directly proportionately, an increase in heroin sales in the country coming from Mexico as the price of pot plummets with each new legalization and growers free for all (literally) in the US. Pot was a huge part of the Mexican economy and exactly at the time Western states began to legalize pot, the drug wars between cartels in Mexico...all the violence etc. heightened as their competing market share plummeted. Destroying the Mexican market is not something we want to do right now. In your Bob Marley fog,
you might not have noticed that when our allies are going broke lately, we can't afford to bail them out. And so, they go asking to Russia and China for handouts. Or the rich arab oil nations...
THINK stoner brains. Put down the dope for five minutes and look at the bigger picture. The two things legalizing pot in the US will do here is 1. Make Mexico import more heroin into our country..reaching our school kids and 2. Make Mexico go looking for another sugar daddy in another part of the world.
You may not like black markets but all in all pot is one of the tamest. And they are real markets with real impacts. Mexico leans heavily on supplying the US with party materials and they always have. It's your choice what substance is most valuable for them to do that with to save their economy. If it can be grown in the ground, they will do it, refine it and bring it here no matter how deadly dangerous it is.
Our heroin epidemic is a real killer, claiming and destroying lives right and left exponentially. I'd much rather trade that for skulking pot dealers here and there and an increase in donuts and twinkie sales.
Monday, 11 Jan 2016 The growing legalization of marijuana in the United States could be starting to put the pinch on one of the biggest exporters of weed through the years to this country: Mexican drug farmers. Is legal pot putting Mexico out of business?
Nov. 15, 2015, A report issued this summer by the Centers for Disease Control found the number of heroin users in the US had grown by almost 300,000 over the last decade, and the increase has occurred among men and women in almost every age group and at all income levels....“Most of the heroin available in the United States comes from Mexico and Colombia,” the DEA notes in its report. We have a clearer picture of who's fueling the US heroin epidemic — and how they're doing it
What an amazing coincidence....in the same exact time frame that Western states were legalizing weed, the same exact countries that used to be famous for their weed imports to the US suddenly switched to really pushing heroin instead!
It's just such an amazing coincidence. Do you think the two situations could be even remotely related to each other?
Me personally? I believe that plants aren't drugs, they're plants. In the Bible, God told Adam that if it grew out of the ground, we could have it. Plants grow out of the ground.
However..........................
ake those same plants and refine them to the point where you have removed everything but the active substance, you have just created a drug. Not only that, but you have also removed the safety valves that are already built into the plant. Think about cocoa leaves.................they are very effective for helping people cope with being at altitude, and they will wake you up like coffee, but nobody has ever become addicted to cocoa leaves. Take those same leaves, and refine them into cocaine, and now not only do you have a drug, but you have a very addictive one as well.
You want to grow opium poppies? Cool. You want to cut the bulb and collect the sap for smoking or ingesting? Same deal.............cool. It's still at the level of being plant material. Potent plant material, but plant material none the less.
Refine it into heroin or opiate medication? It's now become a drug.
The heroin problem is caused by the opioid pushing drug companies . Pusdy congress does nothing about it.
Yes but that lucrative trade is in jeopardy as the Mexican and Columbian cartels flood the markets with their own opiate supply. And all of that was spurred on by pot becoming legal. The Mexicans have been getting fat off pot sales in the US for decades and suddenly that rug was pulled out from under them. What else would we suppose they would do? Teach nursery school or lay bricks? No. They'll do what they've always done: run agricultural goodies across the border for the party kids. They don't give a fig what the substance is; so long as it makes them money they're used to making.While theoretically it is possible to progress to recreational heroin through usage of prescription drugs containing opiates, I wouldn't say that is very common.
What do you want congress to do? Ban drugs with opiates in them? Fat chance! They have soldiers guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan for the cartels and pharmaceutical companies as we speak.
And all of that was spurred on by pot becoming legal.
^^ See, Onyx is demonstrating perfectly the mindset of the cartels upset about pot becoming free in the US ^^
The heroin problem is caused by the opioid pushing drug companies . Pusdy congress does nothing about it.Yes but that lucrative trade is in jeopardy as the Mexican and Columbian cartels flood the markets with their own opiate supply. And all of that was spurred on by pot becoming legal. The Mexicans have been getting fat off pot sales in the US for decades and suddenly that rug was pulled out from under them. What else would we suppose they would do? Teach nursery school or lay bricks? No. They'll do what they've always done: run agricultural goodies across the border for the party kids. They don't give a fig what the substance is; so long as it makes them money they're used to making.While theoretically it is possible to progress to recreational heroin through usage of prescription drugs containing opiates, I wouldn't say that is very common.
What do you want congress to do? Ban drugs with opiates in them? Fat chance! They have soldiers guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan for the cartels and pharmaceutical companies as we speak.
THINK stoner brains. Put down the dope for five minutes and look at the bigger picture. The two things legalizing pot in the US will do here is 1. Make Mexico import more heroin into our country..reaching our school kids and 2. Make Mexico go looking for another sugar daddy in another part of the world.
So you're in favor of a national heroin epidemic. .in another ten years the feds will have decriminalize it and every state will be med pot and half the country will legalize it .....you are paddling against the current.....
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Reality is to look back at Prohibition and how exactly did that work out for us? Oh yeah, thousands died, the government was corrupted by the booze lords, and innocent people died.
Sound familiar?
