According to analysis by InsightCrime.org, the DEA has indicated that 50 percent of heroin sold in the US is produced in Mexico, between 43 and 45 percent comes from Colombia, and the rest from Asian countries. Almost all of it is supplied by Mexican cartels. I wonder how many of those illegal immigrants pouring over the border are actually smuggling heroin into the country. I think it might be time for SSS to pony up and get back down to South America and win that War on Drugs.
Deaths from heroin overdoses are skyrocketing in the United States, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 2010 and 2013, they nearly tripled. Over 8,200 Americans died from heroin overdoses in 2013, averaging 23 every day.
One possible explanation for the increase in overdoses is the abuse of prescription painkillers. 75 percent of people who started using heroin after 2000 previously abused prescription opioids like oxycodone and fentanyl. Many switched to heroin because it was cheaper, easier to obtain and chemically similar to those opioids.
The death rate for males was nearly four times higher than for females in 2013. Indeed, Britain is experiencing a similar trend in terms of drug poisoning, especially in terms of gender. Men are far more likely to generally take risks than women and are more prone to ignoring the dangers of drug abuse.
You will find more statistics at Statista
High finance: ISIS generates up to $1bn annually from trafficking Afghan heroin
Drug money is a massive source of profit for ISIS, who makes up to $1 billion annually from sales throughout its conquered lands, according to the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN).
“The area of poppy plantations is growing. This year, I think, we’ll hear news about a record-high poppy harvest, therefore a high yield of opium and heroin. So this issue should be raised not only in Moscow, but also in the UN in general, because this is a threat not only to our country, but also European security. Over the past five years the Balkan route has been split – heroin traffic now also goes through Iraqi territory,” TASS quotes FSKN head Viktor Ivanov as saying.
What makes profits especially huge is that, despite not operating in Afghanistan, large quantities of poppy are being transported through those parts of Iraq the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) controls. To Ivanov, this makes possible a “huge financial sponsorship.”
“According to our estimates, IS makes up to $1 billion annually on Afghan heroin trafficked through its territory,” he added. The FSKN in November said that the sale of Afghan heroin in Europe could generate upwards of $50 billion for the militants.
What’s more, over half of Europe’s heroin now comes from the IS, according to Ivanov.
Indeed, drug money has been high on the IS’s list of profit generators, together with oil and conquest.
A recent report by the Financial Action Task Force talked of how the IS has been branching out into all manner of finance-generating activities, though it is the reliance on oil that makes them a truly unique terrorist group, unlike others before it.
It remains unclear whether IS can hold its drugs though, let alone run a smuggling business. One British ex-soldier who joined the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters in November 2014 to fight the IS describes the majority of Islamist militants as a disorganized bunch of “office workers and villagers” on drugs.
“They do not have a choice, and they don’t have any information, or even any clear leadership. Many of them are heavily involved in taking drugs they are so terrified,”Jamie Read said.
The terrorists have also reportedly been diversifying their approach to financing their operations.
Admin,
It looks like ISIS could use a good CFO. I here the weather is not nearly as cold and almost no snow. Free 1 way travel, all the goat you can, and if it doesn’t work out there is always 72 virgins. What’s to lose. Make sure you bring sun screen.
Bob.
Jihad Jim has a nice ring to it. 🙂
Just kidding NSA.
That’s all the goat you can eat, probably not quite as good as scrapple.
Bob.
Are rag headed camel jockeys aloud to eat scrapple?
People die on heroin because its always of unknown purity. This is why brand name opioid drugs command a premium price on the black market; they’re predictable.
As long as any aspect of the drug market remains illegal, quality control problems will kill people and the illicit market will keep introducing a new crop of people to hard-core criminals year after year. Since association with criminals is an independent risk factor for violent death, the drug war is just the gift that keeps on giving to the entity on the Pale Horse.
Listen not to what people say, watch what they do. Few people actually want to decrease the deaths and social mayhem from illegal drugs. If they did, the USA would follow Portugal’s lead, because Portugal decriminalized all drugs and the sky has not otherwise fallen.
http://www.businessinsider.com/portugal-drug-policy-decriminalization-works-2012-7?op=1
Yay darwin!
Seriously self sustaining way to thin the herd. Y’all need to read some older henry kissenger papers. One of several suggested methods of less draconian population control.
@D.C. Sunsets: Once again your comments are spot-on. The puritanical remains of the good old U.S.A. simply won’t allow “drugs” to be “legal”. I say fuck ’em, feed ’em fish!
If drugs were legalized where would all the black ops money come from? It is not only drug cartels and ISIS that profit from the drug trade/war.
“75 percent of people who started using heroin after 2000 previously abused prescription opioids like oxycodone and fentanyl”
Funny… They call them prescriptions opiods. What if they started calling them prescription heroin (analogs). Nah.. opiods sounds more sciency
@ Hagar, who said, “If drugs were legalized where would all the black ops money come from?”
You’re a fucking idiot and on a much lower plane than Maxine Waters.
“As long as any aspect of the drug market remains illegal, quality control problems will kill people …… Portugal decriminalized all drugs and the sky has not otherwise fallen.”
—-dc.sunsets
So what the fuck are you arguing for? Legalization or decriminalization? It’s STILL ILLEGAL in Portugal to produce, transport, and sell drugs. Pick one, dumbass. Same goes for your butt buddy Westcoaster.
Death from heroin is good for society. What? We should SAVE those dumb-asses? Pay for their medical expenses? SSDI forever? SNAP forever? An endless drain on society? You put that poison in your body you’ve basically said “Fuckit, I don’t care”. Cool. Well …. neither do I. Hope your next life, if there is one, is a happier one.
“CIA Fueling New U.S. Drug Epidemic Using Cheap Afghani Heroin?; CIA, Obama Team Up to Hide Darkest Secrets”
SSS, search on “CIA and drug running” … let the Internet be your friend.
“I think it might be time for SSS to pony up and get back down to South America and win that War on Drugs.”
—-Admin
Did my part. Member of the teams that nailed Pablo Escobar (head of the Medellin Cartel), arrested ALL of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, and the head of the Northern Valle Cartel. Wiped out the Cali Cartel’s operations in Panama and Ecuador. Destroyed the leader of the Northern Valley Cartel’s investments in south Florida ($25 million forfeited to the US Treasury).
Despite Richard Nixon’s long ago statement of a War on Drugs, there is no such thing. It’s political bullshit that the left and right mock, as they should. It is akin to saying we are launching a War on Murder. How’s that EVER gonna work out?
I was involved in that dangerous shit until I was almost 60 and running out of gas. Right now I need to work on my chipping and putting, thank you.
“Did my part. Member of the teams that nailed Pablo Escobar (head of the Medellin Cartel), arrested ALL of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, and the head of the Northern Valle Cartel. Wiped out the Cali Cartel’s operations in Panama and Ecuador. Destroyed the leader of the Northern Valley Cartel’s investments in south Florida ($25 million forfeited to the US Treasury).”
For all that success what do we have now(or then)? I’ll tell you.
A never ending supply of ever increasing quantities feeding insatiable demand resulting in perpetual growth of law enforcement and incarceration fueling continuous loss of personal liberty enriching/empowering all of those most detestable.
“Did my part. Member of the teams that nailed Pablo Escobar (head of the Medellin Cartel), arrested ALL of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, etc etc etc” ——- SSS
How did that work out? You ever wonder to yourself, “What a fuckin’ waste of my time!” … I mean, between golf rounds, of course.
Admin said “aloud to eat scrapple”. Good thing I commit more typos than the rest of the contributors combined, or I might be tempted to say something about that.
Two hungry mountain lions were out foraging for food one day when they spotted a CIA agent walking down the road. He’s mine said the young one and let out a shriek and knocked him down and proceeded to devour him.
He came back to the old lion and said, “There was nothing to eat!”
“Of course not.” said the old lion, “You did two things wrong, when you let out the shriek you scared the shit out of him and when you knocked him to the ground you knocked the wind out of him. When you do that to a CIA agent, as you discovered, there’s nothing left.”
22 year-old woman died of a heroin overdose in Admin’s neck of the woods, then her 9-month old son died of starvation.
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MILLVALE, Pa. — Police are investigating the death of a woman and her 9-month-old baby boy found inside a Millvale apartment Friday morning.
Channel 11’s Renee Kaminski learned that 22-year-old Sara Kessler and her child, Casey Kessler, were found by a relative, who had not heard from his sister in a week, at the Krismor apartment complex on Butler Street.
Allegheny County Police Assistant Superintendent Jim Morton said the mother died first, and that the baby likely starved to death.
“It seems like he tried to survive for a while, but there was no food to have so,” said Morton.
Sara Kessler was found lying on a bed, according to police. Her baby was found in the apartment’s living room.
Police said both bodies may have been in the apartment for more than a week.
Police said foul play is not suspected in the mother and child’s deaths. Autopsies will be performed.
Three healthy-looking house cats were also found in the second floor apartment.
Police said the animals may have survived because of an automatic feeder.
The medical examiner said Monday that it will likely be three weeks before an official cause of death for the mother and child will be known.
In the meantime, a memorial continues to grow outside of the Krismor apartment complex.
Stephanie ,that is real sad.Nothing else I can say. SSS,Once again thank you for your service,
“Did my part. Member of the teams that nailed Pablo Escobar (head of the Medellin Cartel), arrested ALL of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, etc etc etc” ——- SSS
How did that work out? You ever wonder to yourself, “What a fuckin’ waste of my time!”
—-Stucky
Fuck you, asshole. Did you note the rest of my comment, as in the War on Murder. Do the copfucks, as you like to call them, think they’re wasting their time on murder investigations? Do YOU think they’re wasting their time? Huh? Anyone?
See Stephanie’s post above. Think that wouldn’t have happened if heroin were LEGAL? Ofcourse it would, The Millenial gets it. You and dc.sunsets, Hagar, Westcoaster, and Roy should be embarrassed for the schooling she gave you at her young age.
As for wondering whether I ever wasted my time, Stucky, the answer is NEVER. These people I went up against were killers, ruthless and remorseless killers. They slaughtered innocents who got in their way by the tens of thousands. I stepped into the ring, along with others, and said enough.
And we won. No, we didn’t win the impossible War on Drugs, just the war against the dirtbags we were going after. Poof. And they’re gone. Just like the War on the Mafia. Is that gone? No. Is it less powerful today? Probably. But it’s still there.
I stepped into the ring, Stucky. Make of it what you want, but I stepped into the ring.
I posted CIA Man I the wrong place. It would have fit here much better, fuckin’ A, man. But then SSS might think I’m butt buddies with WC and Hagar.
SSS says:
. Do the copfucks, as you like to call them, think they’re wasting their time on murder investigations? Do YOU think they’re wasting their time? Huh? Anyone?
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According to the results of the federal investigation into the Ferguson Missouri police department, their main purpose is to abuse traffic laws for the purpose of generating as much revenue as possible for the city, with the enthusiastic support of the mayor and city manager. WTF, who needs criminals to rob you when the police are more than happy to oblige?
Many a hero on this site. I’m proud to know SSS, Billy, Card, I-S…You guys couldn’t wear super-hero outfits but you still performed selfless acts of great courage while being overtly covert.
I am not any less proud of Stuck, LLPOH and bb, (a man who drives a truck around the known universe that is America in an effort to put food on the table for his mom and ex-wife. No doubt this time off is a divine intervention to get bb to rest a bit and think of himself for once. I had drawn up a fantastical storyline with bb as Capt Kirk in his landship Enterprise, going where no man has gone before.) Each one a superhero in his own domain.
Zman, the kid’s family is cashing in on MB’s luck at getting killed by a cop instead of at the hands of a criminal, that be ‘good death’ no? He didn’t die for nuthin, he died so they could make bank.
El Coyote says:
Zman, the kid’s family is cashing in on MB’s luck at getting killed by a cop instead of at the hands of a criminal, that be ‘good death’ no? He didn’t die for nuthin, he died so they could make bank.
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You are missing the point. It has nothing to do with the kid who was shot. It has all to do with the police being your enemy every much as a common criminal is. The only difference is that when a common criminal robs you, he doesn’t pretend he’s doing you or anyone else a favor.
SSS
—you are the moron. Only an idiot with their head up his ass wouldn’t realize that the alphabet organizations utilize the drug trade to finance black ops. I don’t care a twit about legal or illegal drugs…its a choice to use or not use for each individual. TPTB will not give up that revenue stream. The war on drugs is a money maker. You’ve wasted your life..shove your putter up your ass.
As for legalization, I don’t give a fuck. Make it legal, OK. Keep the war/revenue stream going on OK…that’s the American way. One way or another people will fuck themselves up. Just don’t mess in my neighborhood…then I’ll fuck you up…and I’ve lots of armed mountain folks as neighbors who think the same.
Admin
Good post and your comments are right on.
( Hair a in ) that’s how it’s pronounced in the south. I’ve always preferred the rich mans aspirin cause she don’t lie.
If you think drugs are bad check this shit out, old men on the fairway’s are deadly.
Poor Fuckin Duck never had a chance!
wow. Some of you can’t be serious. SSS didn’t do us a major public service ridding the world of pablo escobar and the ochoa brothers and the orejuelas? I was exactly the right age and in the right place to see what they wrought first hand. Miami was a sleepy little place prior to the cocaine cowboys. They litterally built the banks. Corrupted an entire region. Miami vice wasn’t a real stretch. Thank you, SSS
Starfracker says . SSS didn’t do us a major public service ridding the world of pablo escobar and the ochoa brothers and the orejuelas.
I totally agree! Legalize drugs and let each man chose his own destiny, too suffer the consequences or pleasures of his own choices.
If I can purchase cocaine and support my life style who’s fucking biznuss is that but my own. I despise any bastard that wants to impose his self righteous bullshit on me. I’ll live my life and you fucking live yours, I won’t fuck with you, and if you fuck with me I will plant a lead projectile in YO ass.
No, SSS did me not one favor, just another Government drone playing golf on our dime, he accomplished fucking Zero, as is proved by the title of this thread, and the drug Lords running Mexico today.
A waste of money that’s what SSS career and life represent and if he wants to cross swords with me I”ll post the stats that prove all his interventions were worthless and futile. Bring it on.
Starfracker is that serious enough for YOU.
Let’s preempt SSS should he raise his head, we will give him something to chew on.
Five Startling Statistics That Prove The War On Drugs Is A Failure
http://reset.me/story/five-startling-numbers-failed-war-drugs/
BTW I never read anything above my first post.
Now, I’ve went back and read a few of the previous comments. Sure enough SSS comes up with total fucking Bullshit, such as this,
“I stepped into the ring, Stucky. Make of it what you want, but I stepped into the ring”
SSS, Tell me how one fucking thing you did changed the picture today. Post your stats, explain to me how you won the war on drugs or as I like to call it, the assault on individual freedom.
SSS, here’s some real good advice. Go play golf and don’t tell anyone what you did to get the Government handout you now enjoy. Make up a lie, tell them you built something like LLPOH, tell them you started a blog like Admin and fretted over it daily to bring freedom and enlightenment to the people. Just don’t tell them you fought a worthless war on drugs and failed miserably. What say you?
Sensetti, I’m not real libertarian on this, I’ve seen too much destruction. Drugs destroy individuals sure, and I get the darwin angle. But they also destroy families , businesses, communities, institutions. Look at NBC. I’m not a fan of the open ended, thoroughly corrupted ‘war on drugs’. It certainly has become everything you think it is, and you don’t know the half of it. But this stuff came later. The columbians, unlike the present day mexicans, were truly out of control gangsters, and brought that reality to where I lived.
Googlr ‘charles mitchell hall murder’. Mitch was a good friend of mine. he and his girlfriend got slaughtered like sheep, for calling the hollywood police to report a murder. What mitch didn’t know was that the cop he was talking to was corrupted by drug money, and passed his name on to cartel enforcers, also cops and former cops. Mitch got his throat slashed. SSS helped put an end to the billionaire at the top of that heap. Well done.
Think cocaine has helped the neegrow? You must not know any neegrows. Legality has nothing to do with it. You think deaths would be prevented by legalizing heroin? Oxycontin was semi-legal for a while. In short order there were more pill mills than grocery stores in broward county, and beggars became part of my daily life. Drugs are for losers. Defending drugs is a badly thought out position.
The war on drugs got co-opted for sure. Asset seizures, no knock searches, a great big market for billions in para-military hardware. All that is bad enough. But the real corruption is narco dollars as foreign exchange. Miami in the 80’s was swimming in cash. I used to deliver checks for processing to the fed on 36th st. They would be loading palletized cash into semis to send to atlanta. All drug money.
Zero cell phones in afghanistan when we went in. 12 million or more now. Only two sources of money to pay your phone bill. Work for the afghan government (us) or opium money. The taliban had eradicated opium poppies. Now they set crop records while we stand watch. Nation building, on the backs of America’s weak.
USDA killed the lime and avocado businesses in dade county by diagnosing mystery diseases and ordering the groves destroyed. We used to supply the whole country. Fortunately (what a stroke of luck) all the massive mexican operations came on line at exactly the same time. Hold that thought. Do you know how easy it would be to stop the flow of drugs from mexico? They did it here in 5 years. Without the tools they have now.
The mexican cartels were allowed to exist, because to a globalist they served a valuable function, moving massive amounts of american money into mexico voluntarily. The state department spent the last couple of years trying, with some success, to persuade the cartel money to buy into the legit lime and avocado businesses. Why? Big change on the horizon. The legalization of marijuana in colorado and washington.
It took the DEA and mexican army less than a month after legalization to arrest the top guy in the mexican cartels. Coincidence? Or does somebody want that business. Legalization didn’t solve the corruption.
It’s amazing what happens on TBP after I go to bed.
Trust me sports fans……stay away from the white and brown horsey! I’ve rode the horsey in a recreational manner many times and it takes one strong motherfucker to not become an instant addict and I do mean INSTANT. Having said that, absolutely nothing in life has ever compared to the magnificent high it delivers…..NOTHING! It’s like a hundred, total body orgasms all at once that lasts hours.
I can certainly understand why it ruins so many lives but if you still have hopes and dreams just walk away!
“Fuck you, asshole.” ———— SSS
Hey, don’t get pissed at me just because your efforts did not produce long-term tangible results!
You (did you actually pull the trigger?) killed a few nasty bad dudes. That’s great. You said “we won”. Why? Cause some nasty fuckers are dead?
Haven’t those nasty fuckers been replaced by other, often worse, nasty fuckers? Yes?
Has drug use declined in the USA? No?
Have tens of thousands of people who were NOT drug lords …. just common users … had their lives further ruined by the government … at a cost to hundreds of billions to the common citizen? Yes?
So, do tell, WHAT IN THE FUCK did you “win”?
Sensetti @ 1:39 am Poor Fuckin Duck never had a chance.
That’s is SSS get his one and only birdie for the month.
The war on drugs has succeeded only in keeping the butt-sucking bureaucrats in training ( i.e. drug warriors) flush with stolen taxpayer loot.
DWES!
There was a time when Americans had their hootch, got plastered, had their hangover, and that was that.
Then came Prohibition … which brought us the FBI, the mob, crime, killings, ruined lives and all at the bargain basement price of millions upon millions of dollars.
That government intervention shit just worked out fucking great, didn’t it?
Worked so great some numfuk had this idea, “Hey, let’s have a war on drugs!” And, so, hundreds of billions of buckeroos later, and with hardly a goddamned dent on illegal drug use, SSS and his ilk declare, “We won!!”. We need to spend moar! You know … cuz it’s working so well.
That’s INSANE … if the definition is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
So, how about trying a new approach …. like, legalization. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha That will NEVER work, they say. hahahaha
SSS- I stepped into the ring, Stucky. Make of it what you want, but I stepped into the ring.
BBWWWAAAHHHH what a load… stepped into a ring of a lifetime of taxpayer funded gravy. another overpaid asshat trying to justify a lifetime of taxpayer funded welfare by portraying himself a martyr in the fight to keep humanity from exercising their God-given right to property.. Yes, G-Foo , the body is indded one’s property and what we put in it is of no concern to you nor any other taxpayer funded parasite.
Capici ?
The Only Thing Worse Than Legal Heroin Is Illegal Heroin
Years of reporting in Pacific Standard have led us to one conclusion: Decriminalizing drug use will save money—and lives.
“In Portugal, five years of decriminalization have led not to drug tourists in Lisbon but a decline in the use of almost every drug but marijuana. Heroin use in America went up during the same period — precisely because some of those poppies from Afghanistan have found their way across the ocean.”
http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/thing-worse-legal-heroin-illegal-heroin-73994
Try legalization in the USA? NO!!! NOOOO!!! IT WON’T WORK!!!!!!!!
SSS freaking out at even the thought of it.
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sorry for US, Super Senile Stooge wasn’t around for the War on Turror, else ISIS would have already been defeated and Iran would now be a land of smoldering ruin….maybe in his fat years ( thank you , productive people) SSS, could put in a few rounds in the War on Womynz…might be some cake and cream in it for the senile old coot.
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But that’s not even half of it! We now learn that Senator McCain’s friend Abdelhakim Belhadj has been promoted from an al-Qaeda operative to his current position as the head of ISIS in Libya!
Last year alone, McCain “distinguished” himself by being photographed with both Islamist extremists in Syria and neo-Nazis in Ukraine. His hat trick should really call into question his claimed expertise in foreign policy matters.
So is it just the incompetence of the Senator and/or his staff that keeps leading him to such embarrassing photo-ops? Perhaps the Senator is just that easy to hoodwink with a few well-rehearsed lines about love of democracy, apple pie, tolerance, and puppy dogs?
da’ link. http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/neocon-watch/2015/march/09/mccain-stands-with-isis/
That SSS will someday go to his maker convinced of the holiness of his crusade is hardly surprising.
Few people can confront that their lives (occupationally) were spent in an inversion of the good they believed they did.
Do you think you’ll find a chest surgeon who spent his career doing CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting) who realizes it was a complete waste of time (or clearly harmful, and massively costly)?
People immersed in a Narrative lose all objectivity. The worst of all are those whose actions directly or indirectly resulted in the destruction of others’ lives. The odds of them realizing they were the PROBLEM, not the solution, are absolutely zero because to confront the truth would destroy their identity.