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Thread: 26 "Heroin" Overdoses on Monday in Huntington, West Virginia

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    26 "Heroin" Overdoses on Monday in Huntington, West Virginia


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    Thanks for making heroin illegal feds.........

    About 100 years ago it could be purchased pure over the counter at the general store.

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    When there is a rash of 'heroin overdoses', it isn't because heroin is suddenly available, it's because a bad batch of heroin is suddenly available. Which means these aren't typically really heroin overdoses. These are drugs containing heroin or toxic substance overdoses.
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    These people are ODing from the fentanyl, not the heroin.

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    Thought maybe Hillery was in the area and she may have thought they were going to spill the beans about her.

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    Great article on how the marijuana legalization movement pushed the cartels to 'diversify' & 'innovate', resulting in a more dangerous product.

    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...s-don-winslow/

    If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week, take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels. How did they respond to a major loss in revenue? Like any company, they created an irresistible new product and flooded the market. The scariest part: this might not have happened with El Chapo in charge.
    The Sinaloa Cartel decided to undercut the pharmaceutical companies. They increased the production of Mexican heroin by almost 70 percent, and also raised the purity level, bringing in Colombian cooks to create "cinnamon" heroin as strong as the East Asian product. They had been selling a product that was about 46 percent pure, now they improved it to 90 percent.

    Their third move was classic market economics—they dropped the price. A kilo of heroin went for as much as $200,000 in New York City a few years ago, cost $80,000 in 2013, and now has dropped to around $50,000. More of a better product for less money: You can't beat it.

    Okay, I'm going to say it: The heroin epidemic was caused by the legalization of marijuana.
    At the same time, American drug and law-enforcement officials, concerned about the dramatic surge in overdose deaths from pharmaceutical opioids (165,000 from 1999 to 2014), cracked down on both legal and illegal distribution, opening the door for Mexican heroin, which sold for five to ten bucks a dose.

    But pill users were not accustomed to the potency of this new heroin. Even heroin addicts were taken by surprise.

    As a result, overdose deaths have skyrocketed, more than doubling from 2000 to 2014. More people—47,055—died from drug overdoses in 2014 than in any other year in American history. (Perhaps the most famous of these, Philip Seymour Hoffman, died on February 2, 2014, right at the height of the epidemic.) That's 125 people a day, more than five lives every hour, a fatality level that matched the AIDS epidemic's peak in 1995.
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    Boogity-boogity-boo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    Thanks for making heroin illegal feds.........

    About 100 years ago it could be purchased pure over the counter at the general store.
    They made it illegal so they can sell it on the black market. What do you think our troops have been guarding in Afghanistan?

    Flashbacks:


    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner



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