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2022-12-27 Afghanistan

Interior Ministry Says It Has Banned Poppy Cultivation

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 Pushing for substitutive economic aid?
Still a huge market but the organic opioid craze is shifting to fentanyl which can be manufactured cheaper in greater volume with 'better' quality controls, closer to the point of consumption.

How Fentanyl, More than Heroin, Drives US Opioid Market

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-27 08:50|| 2022-12-27 08:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Fentanyl Vs Morphine: What is the difference? Which Opioid Is Stronger?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-27 08:53|| 2022-12-27 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Fentanyl is destabilizing the gummints of heroin producing countries. Black cloud. Tarnished silver lining.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-27 08:55|| 2022-12-27 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 We're losing to the cartels at the border. Here's how we can win

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-27 08:58|| 2022-12-27 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I ran across a remark, don't remember when or where, that suggested Biden's abrupt AFG pullout was caused by the rise in popularity of fentanyl as the heroin trade was no longer economically sustainable.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-27 09:55|| 2022-12-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Texas flight attendant pleads guilty to trafficking fentanyl across state lines after being found with 3lbs of the drug strapped to her abdomen during TSA screening check

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-27 10:00|| 2022-12-27 10:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Is Gov. Newsome going to invade Pakistan to protect the homeless of 'frisco?

Posted by AlanC 2022-12-27 11:48|| 2022-12-27 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 On a destroyer in the 90’s I spent some time in the Caribbean tracking obvious drug runners on my surface search radar. It seemed like if they handed me the firing key to the harpoon console, I could make the War on Drugs a whole lot more interesting and successful in about 15 minutes. At the time I understood that my fantasy fell apart because executing people through summary justice was not the American Way, which hadn’t been cancelled at that time.

The idea that it is not part of the American Way to summarily whack people seems a whole lot less sure 30 odd years down the pike.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-27 12:36|| 2022-12-27 12:36|| Front Page Top

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