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7/18/2025, 4:56:29 PM
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>Kill the poppies, support domestic synthetic opiate production
Is this a strategy or a summery of what you think the Afghanistan war was about?
The legal and illegal poppy growing markets are totally segregated. This is due to the US setting up a pretty dubious legal cartel where only 3 companies (Johnson&Johnson, Mallinkrodt Inc. and Penick Corp.) have the permits to handle raw opium latex and refine it. Their buying is from Australia, India and the UK through GMO seed for poppy straw agreements. All the other companies like Purdue are downstream. If anything the opoid crisis benefited the worst nation on earth Australia much more than Afghanistan since the cheapest method of making Oxycodone is from Thebaine which is a fairly minor part of normal opium poppies so GMO poppies that produce no morphine and shitloads of Thebaine were bred and mostly grown in Australia. This was thought of as a great system for everyone except the people dying from drug overdoses since it made Oxycodone cheaper and the poppies couldn't be diverted for clandestine drug usage.
Regarding Afghanistan. The opium grown there was turned into #3 brown heroin in clandestine labs there and in Pakistan that flooded Europe, the middle east and Russia. While the US illegal opium was historically #4 white heroin from the far east and low quality black tar heroin from mexico. Now its a mix of #3 and #4 heroin and chinkoid fent all coming from mexico.
getting back to the point of the thread there aren't any good books about opiate narco politics since all are surface level or made by self interested weirdos like Jim Hogshire. Adrian Cowell's many documentaries are good but basically historical since it is about the golden triangle and heroin production in Burma during the Vietnam war.
>Kill the poppies, support domestic synthetic opiate production
Is this a strategy or a summery of what you think the Afghanistan war was about?
The legal and illegal poppy growing markets are totally segregated. This is due to the US setting up a pretty dubious legal cartel where only 3 companies (Johnson&Johnson, Mallinkrodt Inc. and Penick Corp.) have the permits to handle raw opium latex and refine it. Their buying is from Australia, India and the UK through GMO seed for poppy straw agreements. All the other companies like Purdue are downstream. If anything the opoid crisis benefited the worst nation on earth Australia much more than Afghanistan since the cheapest method of making Oxycodone is from Thebaine which is a fairly minor part of normal opium poppies so GMO poppies that produce no morphine and shitloads of Thebaine were bred and mostly grown in Australia. This was thought of as a great system for everyone except the people dying from drug overdoses since it made Oxycodone cheaper and the poppies couldn't be diverted for clandestine drug usage.
Regarding Afghanistan. The opium grown there was turned into #3 brown heroin in clandestine labs there and in Pakistan that flooded Europe, the middle east and Russia. While the US illegal opium was historically #4 white heroin from the far east and low quality black tar heroin from mexico. Now its a mix of #3 and #4 heroin and chinkoid fent all coming from mexico.
getting back to the point of the thread there aren't any good books about opiate narco politics since all are surface level or made by self interested weirdos like Jim Hogshire. Adrian Cowell's many documentaries are good but basically historical since it is about the golden triangle and heroin production in Burma during the Vietnam war.
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