Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
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#2As an American, the irony of comeuppance isn't lost on me, given that we did have some involvement against them in the Opium Wars.
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#3As an American, the irony of comeuppance isn't lost on me, given that we did have some involvement against them in the Opium Wars.
We, Americans, or the British?
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#6As an American, the irony of comeuppance isn't lost on me, given that we did have some involvement against them in the Opium Wars.
We, Americans, or the British?
Both, really. Americans were instrumental in pushing cheap, lower quality Turkish opium. Many of the great old East Coast fortunes were built on opium smuggling.
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#7As an American, the irony of comeuppance isn't lost on me, given that we did have some involvement against them in the Opium Wars.
Don't forget the targeted attack on black communities through pushing crack cocaine and assisting smuggling efforts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...
https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
We, Americans, or the British?
Both, really. Americans were instrumental in pushing cheap, lower quality Turkish opium. Many of the great old East Coast fortunes were built on opium smuggling.
Many of the great old East Coast fortunes were built
on opium smuggling.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
We the West, I guess.
Everyone in the “West” or just some? Are native Americans also included in this reckoning? What about Russians and Bulgarians?
Native American communities have indeed been affected severely, but it's not clear how much is due to this particular type of Fentanyl:
AP news reported recently that: "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures indicate the increase [in opioid overdose deaths from 1999 to 2015] was higher for Native Americans than any other group ..."
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#10In Europe there are a lot of these so-called "research chemicals". They are basically illegal drugs but chemically they are different enough that they aren't illegal.
I think the most well-known example is 1P-LSD.