As Vancouver mayors propose giving addicts the drugs they are committing crimes to get, we see a cheap source of Heroin right under our noses in Afghanistan.
Afghan farmers will produce 610 tons of heroin this year!!!
And we have soldiers right there to buy it up at firesale prices. If the Afghan farmers could get 1/10th the price we pay for heroin here, they would be able to jump-start the Afghan economy.
Thats going to help them out more than just killing Taliban, and it would help keep the Taliban out of power there because the farmers and other Afghans would not let anything get in the way of such a lucrative trade.
Bringing hom,e Afghan heroin for distribution to Canada's addicts would ease the crime rates here, and maybe keep some of the drug money out of organised crime pockets here.
And not just the underground drug trade - we could save Health Canada some money by offering the 1000s of Canadians who get morphine prescriptions this heroin instead. Many of the "opiate dependant" patients [morphine and heroin] would prefer heroin to morphine, but of course Health Canada and the doctors prefer to give money to the pharmaceutical corporations by restricting prescriptions to morphine, a synthetic opiate.
Sure, it is a radical idea, but the Vancouver area mayors are proposing giving drug addicts their dope to cut the crime rates down. Bringing home the Afghan heroin would help the Vancouver situation as well as the Afghans.
It is time we stopped pretending the War on Drugs is working, and that punishing drug users, many or most whom are simply self-medicating real pains because the medical system failed them, is the wrong way to go - we should be helping them. If the worst of meth addicts could be convinced to use heroin instead of Meth, it would save a lot of health problems. The reduced price for Afghan heroin [free to addicts] would convince most of them to switch - Meth being cheap is the only reason it is popular.
The Afghans will benefit from open dealing too - its better for them if their crops don't have to be sold into the underground markets. That way, the profits can be taxed and farmer can invest the money in community projects rather than stuff it away because it is illegal money. It will keep the "bad guys" from becoming wealthy, or is it keep the wealthy from having to be bad guys...
it is time to get real about drugs!! - or shall we continue to pretend that pharmacutical drugs are the only valuable drugs? [which is the same reason we do not use marijuana as medicine despite its effectiveness].
Lets bring the Afghan poppy crop heroin to Canada.
Afghan farmers will produce 610 tons of heroin this year!!!
And we have soldiers right there to buy it up at firesale prices. If the Afghan farmers could get 1/10th the price we pay for heroin here, they would be able to jump-start the Afghan economy.
Thats going to help them out more than just killing Taliban, and it would help keep the Taliban out of power there because the farmers and other Afghans would not let anything get in the way of such a lucrative trade.
Bringing hom,e Afghan heroin for distribution to Canada's addicts would ease the crime rates here, and maybe keep some of the drug money out of organised crime pockets here.
And not just the underground drug trade - we could save Health Canada some money by offering the 1000s of Canadians who get morphine prescriptions this heroin instead. Many of the "opiate dependant" patients [morphine and heroin] would prefer heroin to morphine, but of course Health Canada and the doctors prefer to give money to the pharmaceutical corporations by restricting prescriptions to morphine, a synthetic opiate.
Sure, it is a radical idea, but the Vancouver area mayors are proposing giving drug addicts their dope to cut the crime rates down. Bringing home the Afghan heroin would help the Vancouver situation as well as the Afghans.
It is time we stopped pretending the War on Drugs is working, and that punishing drug users, many or most whom are simply self-medicating real pains because the medical system failed them, is the wrong way to go - we should be helping them. If the worst of meth addicts could be convinced to use heroin instead of Meth, it would save a lot of health problems. The reduced price for Afghan heroin [free to addicts] would convince most of them to switch - Meth being cheap is the only reason it is popular.
The Afghans will benefit from open dealing too - its better for them if their crops don't have to be sold into the underground markets. That way, the profits can be taxed and farmer can invest the money in community projects rather than stuff it away because it is illegal money. It will keep the "bad guys" from becoming wealthy, or is it keep the wealthy from having to be bad guys...
it is time to get real about drugs!! - or shall we continue to pretend that pharmacutical drugs are the only valuable drugs? [which is the same reason we do not use marijuana as medicine despite its effectiveness].
Lets bring the Afghan poppy crop heroin to Canada.
