• Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Ok but where exactly did you get that impression and what evidence have you seen to actually prove it? If we didn’t want drugs in our country it would be easy to prevent, but we’re busy using their presence as a justification for mass incarceration/slave labor and our foreign policy so it would be inconcenient for the supply to suddenly dry up. You should be extremely skeptical of anything US media says. The obvious answer to the second part is “money”

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        7 months ago

        Don’t need a 100% interception success rate to successfully suppress domestic black market drug supply, but we’re not actually trying to do that anyway

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      7 months ago

      I think I saw or heard something by Hamilton Morris about China being where most of the fentanyl is made. China has some amazing drug manufacturing facilities and they usually make stuff that people need. But the chemists there are really smart and can make lots of different chemicals.

      If the drugs aren’t coming from China where do you think they’re coming from? My source is admittedly weak, that’s why I was asking to be corrected.

      Also how do you prevent drugs from entering a country? Wouldn’t reducing the demands for drugs be a more permanent solution?

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        7 months ago

        If you saw or heard it but can’t prove it then you should probably be looking for evidence before you start telling other people it’s true. If I had to guess where our drugs are coming from I’d assume they’re being produced by some US puppet state in the middle east or south america and smuggled in by the CIA because that’s how they’ve been doing it for most of a century now. Yes, reducing demand by directly addressing the social and economic conditions that lead to drug abuse in the first place would be far more effective than just criminalizing use & trafficking, which is exactly why we’re not doing that.