Comments on: The Wire’s War on the Drug War – TIME http://byjoeybaker.com/2008/03/06/the-wires-war-on-the-drug-war-time/ The 'new media' evolution according to a millennial photographer. Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:30:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: drugs online http://byjoeybaker.com/2008/03/06/the-wires-war-on-the-drug-war-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 drugs online Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:55:39 +0000 http://byjoeybaker.com/blog/?p=114#comment-1099 Everyone has fallen into complacency when it comes to the war on drugs. It is just like the article said "Our leaders? There aren’t any politicians — Democrat or Republican — willing to speak truth on this. Instead, politicians compete to prove themselves more draconian than thou, to embrace America’s most profound and enduring policy failure." We need someone to step up and take action and stop falling into the same ruts that plague the government. Everyone has fallen into complacency when it comes to the war on drugs. It is just like the article said “Our leaders? There aren’t any politicians — Democrat or Republican — willing to speak truth on this. Instead, politicians compete to prove themselves more draconian than thou, to embrace America’s most profound and enduring policy failure.” We need someone to step up and take action and stop falling into the same ruts that plague the government.

]]> By: Rohan Shahani http://byjoeybaker.com/2008/03/06/the-wires-war-on-the-drug-war-time/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Rohan Shahani Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:52:03 +0000 http://byjoeybaker.com/blog/?p=114#comment-3 There's a large issue at work here that no one, especially our government likes to discuss at all. Namely, that drugs are big business, and that the American economy is completely dependent on them. I live in the city of Los Angeles....a city famous for it's crack epidemic, an episode for which there is documented proof that not only did the Federal government know of it's complicity in this affair, but deliberately lied about their involvement. Over the last two years in LA, the street price of Heroin has gone down. You can now buy some of the highest quality Asian Heroin in the world as easily as one might buy cigarettes at a gas station. Now this is a trend that has entirely grown since American involvement in Afghanistan. The Taliban, whatever they might have done, and been, were incredibly anti-drug. Under their regime almost no Poppies were grown in Afghanistan. Since the American occupation, ALL of our allies and partners in the country have been in some way affiliated with poppy cultivation. Afghanistan now produces 90% of the worlds poppies. These don't all go to Heroin. There's a massively booming International market in prescription pain-killers. Drugs like Oxycontin, Fentanyl, Vicodin (the most prescribed drug in the world) are sold legally at a profit, and are driving the next epidemic in our society. HOWEVER....there's too much money to be made. Example: the Cephalon corporation, held up as a standard of how Pharmaceutical companies should run. Here's a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. New CEO comes in, and their main product offering changed to Painkillers. They developed a whole line of Incredibly potent opiate painkillers that come in Lollipop form, or patch form. In the span of two years, the company's value goes up exponentially, and is eventually acquired. As far as I'm concerned, that's way more scandalous than candy cigarettes. There seems to be a general consensus on Wall street and in the marketplace: If people take drugs, they're too stupid to deserve to live. If they sell them and get caught, they're too stupid to be free. If they sell them and bribe the right folks, we'll happily re-invest their money. And all the while, we'll make a killing off the blood of your children. r There’s a large issue at work here that no one, especially our government likes to discuss at all. Namely, that drugs are big business, and that the American economy is completely dependent on them.

I live in the city of Los Angeles….a city famous for it’s crack epidemic, an episode for which there is documented proof that not only did the Federal government know of it’s complicity in this affair, but deliberately lied about their involvement.

Over the last two years in LA, the street price of Heroin has gone down. You can now buy some of the highest quality Asian Heroin in the world as easily as one might buy cigarettes at a gas station. Now this is a trend that has entirely grown since American involvement in Afghanistan.

The Taliban, whatever they might have done, and been, were incredibly anti-drug. Under their regime almost no Poppies were grown in Afghanistan. Since the American occupation, ALL of our allies and partners in the country have been in some way affiliated with poppy cultivation. Afghanistan now produces 90% of the worlds poppies.

These don’t all go to Heroin. There’s a massively booming International market in prescription pain-killers. Drugs like Oxycontin, Fentanyl, Vicodin (the most prescribed drug in the world) are sold legally at a profit, and are driving the next epidemic in our society.

HOWEVER….there’s too much money to be made. Example: the Cephalon corporation, held up as a standard of how Pharmaceutical companies should run. Here’s a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. New CEO comes in, and their main product offering changed to Painkillers. They developed a whole line of Incredibly potent opiate painkillers that come in Lollipop form, or patch form. In the span of two years, the company’s value goes up exponentially, and is eventually acquired.

As far as I’m concerned, that’s way more scandalous than candy cigarettes.

There seems to be a general consensus on Wall street and in the marketplace: If people take drugs, they’re too stupid to deserve to live. If they sell them and get caught, they’re too stupid to be free. If they sell them and bribe the right folks, we’ll happily re-invest their money. And all the while, we’ll make a killing off the blood of your children.

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