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Nov 4, 2010 at 4:00 am
The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine, Part II: How It's Made, How It Moves, and Who Might Be Cutting It with a Deadly Cattle-Deworming Drug
Once cocaine crosses into the U.S. over the Mexico border, dealers cut it with agents other than levamisole: flour, baby powder, Epsom salts, laxatives, lidocaine, chalk. The lore is that we get some of the worst product in the country—it gets cut and stepped on, mostly by Latino narcos, at every stop between San Diego and Seattle. Meanwhile, it's rumored that Vancouver, Canada, has far superior cocaine than we do: Asian gangs import product to Canada through Vancouver and step on it as it moves eastward. The Latino and Asian gangs are said to have a gentleman’s agreement that the U.S./Canada border is also a gangland border. Latinos won’t sell north and Asians won’t sell south. As one dealer put it, “If we see any of those Asian guys down here, they’re fucking dead.”
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I, on the other hand, also explain the use of the term "cartel" as a way to fetishize one kind of capitalism as bad, and somehow disconnected or disconnectable from other kinds of capitalism -- all of which are connected to state policies, industrial and otherwise.
I, on the other hand, also explain the use of the term "cartel" as a way to fetishize one kind of capitalism as bad, and somehow disconnected or disconnectable from other kinds of capitalism -- all of which are connected to state policies, industrial and otherwise.
Next time you prepare to ridicule and mock those with drug problems (the Wade's, the Lohan, whomever)
I will redirect you to this post on how to get nice and clean coke.
NICE AND CLEAN COKE.
Also, the quoting of El Diario is barely noticeable as a quote, at least for me...
Also, the quoting of El Diario is barely noticeable as a quote, at least for me...
Really interesting article; I tried to make it through "Whiteout" once, but the book was a little long and conspiratorial for me. I think it may be too accurate to receive any serious thought from politicians, but your final point about the contradiction between NAFTA & the drug war is one that I certainly hope does. It's also great that you all have constantly included info on levamisole detection with these articles. Coke's not for me, but it's nice to know that there are some sane people put there when it comes to drugs (thx harborview folks, et. al.).
F*CKING HORRIBLE INFOGRAPHIC!
Seriously Stranger...you don't have anyone on staff that could pull together an infographic better than some gradient shape outlines of North America with some whimsical MS word smart art arrows?
Christ.
Who fucking cares? You're somehow surprised? Would you take aspirin made without any regulatory oversight?
You want a good coke high? Grow your own cocoa plant (you can grow it on your window sill as it looks just like a pale-green jade plant with slightly larger leaves so nobody will notice), soak the leaves in gin or vodka, mix it with some alka seltzer and party like you've never partied before.
And don't get me started on the social ills your fucking habits are directly responsible for in Colombia.
Buy art. Not cocaine. Assholes.
There have been lots of articles about the overspraying as part of Plan Columbia, and their effects on people, rivers, farms, and livestock. You just haven't been paying attention.
Also, how the fuck can you call yourself a "Libertarian" while decrying drug use? If laws preventing pollution and racial discrimination are government overreach, then drug laws are WAY across the line. For a more informed and intelligent Libertarian discourse, I recommend Penn & Teller: Bullshit! "Libertarian" is not the same as "everyone should behave exactly how I want them to"; limited government is government limited across all fronts in a close-to-equal degree, not limited in the ways one wants and extensive and intrusive in the ways one wants.
Overspraying, as part of Plan Colombia, has contributed to the mass displacement in Colombia, forcing people from their rural communities into what are becoming some of the largest and most devastating slums in South America.
"Colombia has experienced the internal displacement of more than 3,800,000 people over the past 20 years, representing approximately 8 percent of Colombia’s population
Colombia’s internally displaced population is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the Americas, and the second largest internally displaced population in the world, after Sudan
Afro-Colombian and indigenous peoples are disproportionately affected by displacement, representing almost one-third of the internally displaced;
Women and children also comprise a large majority of the internally displaced
More than 200,000 people continue to be displaced internally every year"
www.cipcol.org/?p=440
Ah, there's nothing like a "libertarian" to take a complex issue with a long history, that touches hundreds of millions of people in many different nations across the globe and reduce it to a simpering bromide.
Along w/ the usual self-righteous feet-stamping, it is a tour-de-force of the lunacy of conventional wisdom.
The expletives are just icing on the cake.
Also a side note, this internal crisis has been going on since the 1940's, and just for your information Castro has to a lot with it, he may have assassinated the presidential candidate Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Ayala, which consequently created FARC and Paramilitaries that were helping the poor countrymen. Which are largely behind the problem today.
Otherwise, this was excellent.
Still, it would be nice to see money wasted on drug seizures, diverted into rehabilitation programs.
ALL of which we'd do better to decriminalize or outright legalize...
Here is an excerpt of something I wrote on the subject awhile back:
"Nearly all of what is discussed in [this account] would simply go away if we actually did what the right-wingers often speak up for, and let so-called 'market forces' conduct an economic war against the cartels for us by decriminalizing cocaine (and making legal and clean supplies for addicts available by prescription).
"Keeping large standing armies of thugs on hand to conduct and protect the illegal cocaine trade is expensive, and only supportqble by the high prices that can be gotten for the drug because it is illegal and because the penalties for trafficking it are so high (increased risk driving the price up).
"We could undercut ALL of the negative consequences of the cocaine trade except the propensity for some percentage of the people who use the drug to become addicted--problems that readily available treatment programs, legal prescription, and education are able to attack far more effectively than interdiction.
"Lots of good social research on drug use and abuse patterns has been done in the more "liberal" nations of Europe (e.g. Netherlands) suggesting that rightwing fears of sudden and universal cocaine addiction under a more permissive regime are ill-founded."
If anything, my view of preference for outright legalization (for all illegal drugs) over decriminalization has sharpened, since.
PROBLEM SOLVED! Hurry up and die, assholes, so the rest of us can live in peace.
I support the legalization of all drugs, that's the best way to go for peace in our Countries.
Also I recommend Rolling Stone's "How America Lost the War on Drugs"
OR they did split the trade...pure for the wealthy,rich and important....mixed crap for the street and suckertrade....who knows?
Maybe its more than the coke that sucks here, the people suck, the food sucks, the lack of variety sucks, SEATTLE SUCKS!
In the Bay area everybodys grandma has a candy dish full of the good coke, people are friendly, food is great, people actually know how to drive above the soeed limit for the most part, so wtf is wrong with this shitty ass town??
We need better coke! Someones got to do something!
Help!