If you thought today’s situation was bad - think again. Afghanistan, the world’s largest producer of opium just logged a record crop harvest this year doubling last year’s production. Some how - some way, Afghanistan’s opium will find its way into a neighborhood near you.
According to VOANEWS,
Last year, poppies were cultivated on 201,000 hectares, yielding 4,700 tons of opium, up 46 percent from 2015.
Sources told VOA’s Pashto service more than 10,000 tons of opium were produced this year. Opium then can be refined into heroin.
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that opium accounted for some 16 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product last year, including more than two-thirds of the entire agricultural sector.
In addition to fueling insecurity, violence and insurgency, the drug production is discouraging private and public investment, a UNODC report said.
This is a bad sign for President Trump who opted to call the opioid crisis a ‘public emergency’ rather than a full-blown ‘national emergency’.
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Mike Lewis said it come from Mexico and S America. Remember he make that video? And China send that fentanyls
Good.Weed em out.
... and he is correct According to numerous websites
PolitiFacts says "We’ve all heard of poppy fields blooming in Afghanistan, but is Trump right that heroin it entering the United States largely through the southern border? Our ruling Trump said "it "comes from the southern border." The vast majority of it in the United States comes from Mexico and South America. We rate Trump’s claim True. Even though Southwest Asia supplies heroin to most of the rest of the world, nearly all of the heroin available in the United States comes from Mexico and South America.
what is of real concern is that young and old are part of the usage.
Want to know how it's getting here??
Ask your local Senator, Federal Judge, Coast Guard commander, Border Patrol agent, or the Custom agents looking the other way for a cool $50,000 a month.
It is rich white connected men and women, who in the daytime, rail against drugs, drug users and drug smugglers and demand their heads, but in the nighttime, hit a couple of lines and make a few calls on their burner phones or meet Jose at the Capitol bar.
You elect them and complain about drugs???? LOL.
WE can do ANYTHING we want in Afghanistan ANYTHING. We cannot be stopped.
So, cheerleaders, why haven't we napalmed those fields (while the taliban are in them?).
If it is such a national security issue, why haven't we destroyed those crops on the ground in any country they exist?
What? We are suddenly afraid of Mexico and Bolivia?? We weren't afraid to violate the sovereignty of Pakistan (they at least have nuclear weapons).
Nope.
The people backing theses criminals with money and connections are busy on the Senate floor, or telling their sonar operators to ignore that signal.
Its just a BIG fish.
Keep cheering. (they are playing you for the dummies you seem to be).
Kind of strange we have been there 16 years and since then the area now produces the amount of opiate it does compared to relatively none before we were there. You tell me how its getting here because I'm not buying the Mexico excuse. Your tax money is probably flying this in on drab green planes.
Thanks, Imclain, you have it completely correct. We are the armed guards of the fields and the biggest importers of the product, then cry and moan of the "epidemic" that is ruining our Country.
It's just about the sickest thing to imagine about our precious U.S.
Let's hope Trump can help us in this travesty. The importers need to be stopped, but unfortunately, they are us.
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