Guest Post by The Zman
The other day, I was told about a young girl who was found dead at her home by her mother. The girl had graduated high school and was attending junior college. She had been out with friends and, presumably, taking drugs. Somehow she arrived home and went to bed, never to wake up. The girl was otherwise a good kid from a lower class home, but she made a mistake that turned out to be fatal. The exact cause of her death is unknown to me, other than it was a drug overdose, but the story is a familiar one.
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The cultural revolution of the 60’s is often celebrated by the Left and Baby Boomers, but it was a disaster for the lower classes in America. The most obvious example is recreational drugs. In the 60’s, smoking weed and experimenting with narcotics was for college kids living off their parents at a university. By the 70’s, the drug culture had settled into the lower classes, along with all the other excesses of the beautiful people. It’s not an accident that crime took off, violence rates increased and we got an underclass.
Ever since, the great fear facing every parent, but especially those in the lower classes, has been the call on a weekend night from the police, telling them their kid was dead or in the emergency room for a drug overdose. Being poor or working class has never been an easy life, but the corrosive effects of recreational drugs have put a trap door under these people. Most are lucky enough to avoid a horrible mistake, but for many, the drug culture proves too much. They make the fatal mistake or throw away their lives for a buzz.
According to Kaiser statistics, whites make up 82% of opioid overdoses. Most of the drug overdoses are among the young, but older whites are killing themselves at record numbers as well. That means the spike in drug deaths is not driven by youthful foolishness or ennui. Instead, it is being driven by more white people using more potent drugs. The consensus is that the over-prescribing of pain killers has driven a rise in heroin use. Once the Feds cracked down on prescription drugs, addicts turned to heroin.
The temptation is to blame the culture or blame the profligate degeneracy of the modern age, but that would not explain the spike in youth overdoses. A middle age man offing himself is understandable to anyone who has hit middle age. Young people, even in terrible situations, naturally have hope. The better answer is that this is a case where supply drives demand. There used to be high barriers to potent opioids. Today, they are cheap and you don’t have to jam a needle in your arm to use them.
All of that means little to that mother who went in to wake her daughter, only to find her dead from a drug overdose. People can come to terms with a kid going bad and throwing their life away on drugs and crime. When a normal kid who seems to be headed in the right direction drops over dead from something they got at a party, people wonder what’s going on in the world. They naturally look to their rulers for answers. If people were suddenly dying from a virus in these numbers, it would be a national emergency.
That’s not to say that the drug war is a good idea. After decades of squandering billions trying to stem the flow of drugs into the country, the result is the opposite of what was expected. Illicit drugs are cheaper, more diverse, more widely distributed and more normalized than when the drug war started. By any measure, the war on drugs was lost and drugs won. That’s why our rulers don’t talk about drugs or the drug war much anymore. It’s just one of those things that has been quietly forgotten.
There’s also the fact that drugs are mostly a downscale problem, something that does not touch the Cloud People so they don’t care about it. The mothers in Cloud Country are not fretting about junior riding the dragon. He’s parked in front of his XBox all day, playing the female character, because he is questioning. The drug issue is mostly a Dirt People problem now. It’s blacks slinging on street corners and crackers getting loaded in an apartment complex far away from the people who run things.
That said, it is important to note the direction of the drug flow. America has never had a problem with drugs pouring in from Canada or Iceland. The flood of cheap narcotics into America starts in Mexico. When heroin had to be imported from Asia, it was not easily attainable and the quality of the product available to the poor was quite low. Now that Mexico has take over the production and distribution, heroin is suddenly cheap, potent and plentiful. This is also true of meth, which is now made in volume in Mexico.
This sort of thing does not happen in Canada because Canada is a responsible country with mostly responsible leaders. They would use the tools of the state to cripple the large scale production of narcotics. That’s not the case in Mexico, where the political class provides cover to the drug cartels and helps them violate US laws with regards to banking and border access. Putting pressure on the Mexican political class, to crack down on their narcotics trafficking and their human smuggling over the border, would have an impact on the heroin problem in the US.
Up until now, our rulers have not seen fit to put any pressure on the Mexican rulers about the drugs and human smuggling. Real countries with patriotic leaders have no tolerance for other countries protecting pirates and drug cartels on their border. They hold the leaders of those border countries accountable. Globalists have no duty to their citizens as citizenship does not exist. America’s ruling class has nothing but empathy for the Mexican ruling class and nothing but contempt for the Americans people, especially the founding stock.
That may be changing as Trump is the first pro-American president we’ve had in close to three decades. Trump seems to get that the way to address the border problems, including the drugs, is to hold the Mexican elite responsible. They need America much more than America needs Mexico. If the cost of tolerating the drug cartels and human smuggling gets high enough, the Mexican government will do something about it. It can never be eradicated entirely, but it would not take much to sharply reduce the flow of drugs and people over the border.
Maybe then the White Death will begin to subside.
Libertarians here seem to want all these drugs legalized so kids will have unlimited and unrestricted access to them to use however they want.
Along with totally open borders so there will be no hindrance to bringing unlimited quantities in if they aren’t manufactured here in sufficient quantity.
A position I disagree with.
Prohibition creates this entire edifice of bankster and oligarchic crime and corruption. Man is a fallen creature, and Satan walks this world. Even children can see behind the curtain of the great and powerful Oz; the worm of despair enters and without the culture of Christendom to hold up hope for our life everlasting they turn to the oblivion of drugs. The West was lost with the ‘enlightenment’; the Babylonian woe takes another empire down into darkness.
Well then, let’s make murder and all crime legal. NO!
The problem with “war on drugs” is not doing it, but rather how it is done.
The war on drugs isn’t being lost because it’s being done wrong, it’s because it’s impossible to win. You are literally fighting a war against the immutable economic laws of supply and demand. As long as America has an insatiable appetite for drugs, supply will meet demand. Always have, always will. We can’t even keep drugs out of prisons. What makes you think we can keep them out of a country? Besides, addiction rates are pretty much the same as they were before all this nonsense started. About the only thing that’s changed is that we have wasted hundreds of billions on this and have locked up millions of people for it.
True Libertarians don’t agree with open borders. In America, due to property rights, all property should be owned, with the exception of government office buildings and military bases as outlined in the constitution. So unless the owner of property gives you permission to come on their property, immigrants have nowhere to go. (How many liberals do you think are actually going to let immigrants live with them? They’re too self-centered and selfish.)
It’s the government that interferes with the private property arrangement.
But I agree all drugs should be legalized — ALL. If something is against the law, it makes it more attractive to curious, experimenting young people. If it’s legal, not so much. (In fact, that’s was the attraction for me when I experimented with drugs. Didn’t stick with it, though, thank God.)
Before the drug laws went into affect, drug use was low. It went way up after the laws were put in place. Same thing happened during Prohibition. There was more alcohol use during Prohibition than before (or after).
People who want to buy drugs can get them through the black market with no problem. In fact, drugs are more abundant now than they were before the drug war. But people that don’t want to use drugs won’t. So why bother with a law? All you’re doing is making a lot of bad people rich. And at the same time, you’re increasing violence. People selling drugs and involved with drug wars can’t go to court to settle their differences like normal businesses, so they have to take the arguments to the street. And the result is increased violence just like with the Mafia during Prohibition.
And why bother with laws when our own CIA is bringing the drugs in for “play” money for their black ops, or protecting poppy fields and certain drug cartels in Mexico?
People should be free to make their own decisions on what they will buy and use, but they have to live with those consequences.
And by the way, I don’t agree with age limits either for alcohol or tobacco products or any other “sin” product. It shouldn’t be up to “society” to decide. It should be up to the parents. Period.
Check your sources Vic.
We have a heroin problem because we promote it. Look at poppy cultivation in Afganistan for the last 20 years. The Taliban had almost eradicated it, necessitating our intervention because 9-11. Let me think, when was the last time we had a major heroin problem in the US? Something about Asia and the military maybe?
Home run, Z-man. There is no war on drugs. The clinton/bush/Obama globalist braintrust has seen narcotics flows as a helpful tool in achieving several objectives. Cash flows of American money to impoverished nations. In Afghanistan, there were no cell phones 15 years ago. Now there are 25 million. But to pay the bill, you only have 2 major sources of income in Afghanistan. Work for something funded by the US, or the opium trade. Mexico is no better. And if all that opium can blunt the aspirations of a whole bunch of American citizens at the same time, so be it. Trump is about to show you what a real war on drugs looks like. Mexico, without US companies, remittances, and the drug trade, is going to be a failed state. The wall needs to be in place, no question. A total remake of that country needs to take place. Probably something along the lines of the British colonial system. Corruption is just too steeped in that culture.
star,
you are a smartie star
Yes, but Republicans are starting to oppose the wall at the border now. They’re past their elections so they don’t have to pay attention to the people again for another few years in Congress, or for four to six years in the Senate, and the Senate is going to be the major problem. Especially since the list of six Republicans taking funds from George Soros came out. And, yes, you are correct, John McCain and Lindsey Graham are on that list.
“This sort of thing does not happen in Canada because Canada is a responsible country with mostly responsible leaders.”
REALLY!!?? SERIOUSLY??
I guess all the 200 something deaths due to overdoses of Fentanyl and now Carfentanyl on the west coast of Canada lately, did not happen at all?
Granted, it was mostly the downtrodden street people who died, but a good number were kids in high school from good families.
It’s just as bad here in Canuckistan as it is elsewhere.
z-man
Fuck off you German hating Joo bastard!!!
(Sometimes it takes me a couple days to get my dander ruffled.)
What a lovely, to the point post! And the comments are not those of shit throwing monkeys as they were all thought out and contain much truth.
Mexico needs a kick in the ass and made to suffer financially and otherwise until it takes an active and effective part in throttling the drug trade across the border with the USA. I don’t know the best way to do that (I have ideas but they will never be listened to by anyone by TBPers).
Regardless, I also feel that recreational use of pot it is the cards for this country. Whether that’s good or bad remains to be seen. I don’t know if pot is a “gateway” drug to heroin and cocaine or not. The fact remains that pot is indeed useful in medical situations. Whether recreational use will lead to long term harm or just allow a kickback relaxation after a hard days work again, remains to be seen.
But this is a good post and good comments..
“(I have ideas but they will never be listened to by anyone by TBPers)”
Especially if they are never expressed.
Valid ideas, whether approved of or not, tend to be like seeds that are planted and may take a long time to grow enough to notice them: Don’t plant them, they don’t grow.
Invalid ideas tend to do the same but end up being pulled like weeds when they show up.
What good is a forum where everyone agrees with you?
Dope is bad. The kidneys and liver rid the body of Hooch but Dope clogs the fat & nerves for a month; there are no sharp withdrawal symptoms. The Doper becomes ever more stupid, slow, unmotivated; they begin to play music to loud, over salt or sweeten their food, lose libido etc. Dope is worse on the lungs and cracks DNA causing Dopers babies to have more birth defects. Dopers do poorly in school, waste time and money, and associate with other Dopes.
Muck
My observation is that pot is like alcohol: most people can handle it without getting hooked, while a minority become hopelessly addicted.
Besides the medicinal angle, the one thing pot has going for it is that it doesn’t incite anybody to be violent. Personally, I prefer sipping a glass of Chardonnay.
I can guarantee you that pot is not a “gateway” drug. The movie “Reefer Madness” about people going nuts after smoking pot was nothing but propaganda from the people that wanted to ban it.) I experimented with drugs in my youth. I tried pot several times but didn’t like it. I didn’t like the dry cotton-mouth feeling it left in your mouth. Plus, based on how it made me feel, pot is for people who want to relax and/or unwind, or perhaps relax their mind enough to forget their worries. (No, it doesn’t make you crazy). I’m already a laid-back person so I don’t need something to relax me. Anyway, after trying pot, I didn’t do any other type of drugs for several years. So pot didn’t “gateway” me to anything else. About five or six years later, I did try Speed (uppers or pep pills for the older folks) and Cocaine and Quaaludes, but didn’t stick to those either (thank God).
But I have to say, death by a drug user, I think, is one of the greatest deterrents. I remember when I was young and hearing about Art Linkletter’s daughter jumping off the balcony of a large building after taking LSD. In fact, I listened to Art Linkletter talk about it on a TV show. I also remember hearing about the bad “trips” people experienced. Those two items left me with a desire to never try LSD, even though it was abundantly available.
“Afghanistan is by far the number one producer of opium and heroin. Total worldwide opium production was 7,554 tons in 2014, of which 85% came from Afghanistan. The remaining 1,154 tons are primarily from Myanmar, Laos, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam. Mexico produced 162 tons of opium in 2014…Heroin from Mexico cannot supply even 10% of US heroin demand. Yet the DEA claims most heroin in the US is from Mexico.
Most heroin in the US is coming from US-occupied Afghanistan….We’re getting hit with the largest ever illicit drug epidemic in American history and the DEA is asleep at the wheel.” (Edstrom. “Obama Gives a “Green Light” to the “Heroin Epidemic” Global Research 2016
Let’s hope that will change with the new administration.
But you can’t do away with the poppy fields because, for example, Morphine is made from the opium poppy, too. Morphine is used by dying cancer patients and others in a great deal of pain and there is an actual medical use for it.
My sister-in-law has cancer and my brother was told a could of days ago it could be days or weeks before she passes away. She is in constant pain. My brother had to learn to give her injections of morphine to ease her pain. I’m sure you wouldn’t want to get rid a drug that helps ease someone out of life rather have them endure a painful end.
Almost everything can be used for beneficial or for non-beneficial reasons.
No, the DEA is not asleep at the wheel. They are importing the drugs just as they are supposed to. It is y’all who are asleep at the wheel. Doncha know.
Rob, you are the cat’s meow, and I thank you!
…we are loaded up with false info…plenty of
H (already processed) from the rocky shores
of Afghanistan…but do not discount Peru and others.
The northern Mexican border may be bagging and tagging,
and then it enters easily into the Southern USA. (plus meth)
So Trump said he’ll build a wall, figuratively if not
literally, and has offered to send troops down there to assist
the Mexican gov. Please, please remember, 90% of our “news”
is spun/or just made up. Also, the ME H may be going to Europe,
the Eastern Europe and Russia. I have heard that Iran is getting
H attacked as well. TPTB are orchestrating this and useful idiots
everywhere are carrying the plan out. Anything for profit and
destruction, right?
So Trump said he’ll build a wall, figuratively if not literally, and has offered to send troops down there to assist the Mexican gov.
Suzanna, with all due respect, you could be the answer to Maryanne Conway. You soften the message to ersatz news. He intends to build a real wall. And he didn’t offer, he threatened to send his guys over if their own are too chickenshit.
Kellyanne Conway.
Thank you, my mind must have drifted off to Gilligan’s Isle.
Amen brother Rob.
The government has cracked down on the prescription of painkillers. However many individuals suffering from extreme pain rely on these painkillers. Many are probably addicted, but they function normally. I know two cases where these prescriptions were cut off. One was to a double amputee vet and another to a woman with a severe spinal cord injury. In both instances they choose to end their lives due to the pain.
This is shortsighted and stupid. Those who aabuse painkillers should be cut off, but those who can only survive by using these drugs should not be penalized. If the government cannot revise its polices then I can only hope that the authors of these policies will one day be deprived on the drugs that will end their pain and suffer the way these two people did.
100%
The crackdown on scripts is warranted for the PHYSICIANS
prescribing Oxycontin in the SE and elsewhere, but Vicodin,
eg is a huge target. Chronic pain will drive a person crazy and
to suicide. The focus on these scripts is a distraction from the
problem of massive inflow of cheap potent H being brought
in to kill the kids. Meanwhile, who cares if elderly arthritics
etc. live small and in pain? Population control and the destruction
of the USA…that is the plan. Kill kill kill. That seems to be the
motto for PTB. Consider something else. “Soldiers” going off
to “war” to protect their country are given innumerable immunizations
and all at once as well. Research that. Then look at the immunizations
for the little ones. Note: newborns are given their first shot for Hep.B
just after they are born. The first of 3. In case Mommy is infected, you know.
Suzanna
I agree with you.
The hep B shot for newborns is a scam in my view. Have you ever known a kid who contracted hep B? Do you even know any adults who have or have had hep B? Is there a hep B epidemic?
In the good old days people were vaccinated for infectious diseases that occurred in epidemics, like dipheria and smallpox and polio. Now “they” insist on vaccinating against any number of potential illnesses that most people endure and recover from. Along with the flu shot, the hep B vaccine is a big moneymaker for the pharmaceutical companies. Now even newborns, no more than a few hours old, are routinely contaminated with a vaccine. It’s a sin. Literally.
Suzanna and Gayle
This is a very interesting article I read by Jon Rappoport, something has to be done about this.
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/robert-f-kennedys-devastating-quotes-on-vaccines-and-the-cdc/
If only there was a plant that could be ingested to help with that pain that could be grown in a room in your house or backyard that caused little in the way of side effects. Maybe one day…
Before establishment-Rockefeller medicine took over, anybody could buy anything in a pharmacy that they wanted, drug or herb — no prescription required. And the pharmacists could recommend something, say, for a cold, sore throat, back pain, etc. Back then, doctors didn’t prescribe medicine in the majority of cases. If they did want a patient to take a certain medicine, they sent a note to the pharmacy telling them which drug or herb they wanted the patient to use, which later became prescriptions.
I don’t understand why doctors diagnose and then prescribe medicine when they don’t have the education to prescribe medicine. They aren’t trained in drugs. The pharmacists are the ones that study drugs. A nurse I worked with once told me that doctors get maybe a half a semester on prescribing medicine, but they don’t really know anything about medicine. He said that a doctor usually prescribes the same drugs for specific ailments over and over to different patients because they’ve worked in the past, and only make a change if, for some reason, it doesn’t work. And if that doesn’t work, they change the medication again. But pharmacists go through seven years of college learning about drugs and chemicals and what they are used for, the contraindications, etc. So why aren’t they deciding which medicine you take after a doctor makes a diagnosis? That’s basically the way it was in the old days. I think we should go back to that method.
Anon, give them the tobacco and alcohol treatment– legalize, regulate and tax, ad infinitum…
@rhs jr
Holy shit is your brain pickled. Either you drink a lot of alcohol or just really uninformed. My guess is both, because drinking alcohol can:
1) Shrink the pancreas
2) Destroy the liver
3) Puts you in the diabetic danger zone
4) Affects your coordination
5) Causes blackouts
6) Gives you shifty eyes
7) Creates a dependence
8) Slurred Speech
9) Shrinks the frontal lobe – hmm..
10) Causes hallucinations
11) Causes Malnutrition
12) Sexual dysfunction
13) Birth defects
14) Causes skinny skeleton
15) Post stupid comments on blogs
16) and a lot more …
I looked up “cracked DNA”, no hits. That really cracks me up.
I stopped reading the article after “In the 60’s, smoking weed and experimenting with narcotics was for college kids living off their parents at a university. By the 70’s, the drug culture had settled into the lower classes, along with all the other excesses of the beautiful people. It’s not an accident that crime took off, violence rates increased and we got an underclass.”
This statement says a lot about the author: “College kids living off their parents at the university” . Mr. Stucky, can you extrapolate why the author has such disdain for these kids?
Just because it’s considered bad for you, doesn’t mean outlaw it. We get disagreeing science reports monthly on whether drinking coffee is going to kill you or make you live a healthy life.
Let people decided for themselves what they ingest. If they make bad decisions, they live with the consequences. That is called life.
“Mr. Stucky, can you extrapolate why the author has such disdain for these kids?” ———– BananaCassandra
I think you’re somewhat new here?
Cuz, stick around a while and you will soon discover that Mr. rhs jr had disdain for MANY sundry groups …. including me, believe it or not.
What’s a moran have to do to get some respect around here?
Choices have consequences. You can’t change the laws of physics. Onetime a it is sad. Life is hard and harder if you are stupid. In the great scheme of things , I don’t care if niggers kill each other or dopers kill themselves.
Hey El Coyote, mi amigo (did I say/spell that right)
It’s 1:45 AM …. I can NOT fucken fall asleep!! My mind is racing with ALL THE SHIT I gotta do in the next 2-3 week. I’m overwhelmed. I’m nervous. Will I get done???? What if I don’t?
I was gonna look at some horse porn. Then I said ‘fuckit, let’s see what’s goin on in TBP land’
Can you help a niggah out? Gimme some words of wisdom man.
Fucken beaner ain’t no help at all!! C ya sucka.
Hey man, I went to bed. Admin doesn’t pay overtime.
Our secretary has a cute quote under her signature line, they are all the rage now. Maybe Admin even has a Ben Franklin quote under his name.
Anyway, it says: Any job is easy if you break it down into small parts.
I made up my mind, when tackling a big job, to deliberately accomplish so much and then take a break. It takes my mind off the time and sets me on task instead. (Of course, sometimes I find that I skipped a snack and because I’ve been going on too long with a task, I start to get shaky – oops, better go have something to eat.)
Your going to have to prioritize because you’ve for a war on two fronts, that spells trouble.
HF said that you have to do triage, blow off what can’t help and concentrate on what will get you ahead.
You could have given yourself more time after the close date by renting your house from the new buyer for a few days. Maybe there is still time to make that agreement via your shyster lawyer.