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| Afghan Heroin Production Up 61% in the Past Year Alone
(Libertarian News) posted 02/16/2012 The Daily Mail reports: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon admitted today heroin production in Afghanistan has risen 61 per cent in the past year despite billions ... Afghan heroin hang-glider downed (BBC) posted 08/23/2005 Border guards in Tajikistan say they shot down a hang-glider carrying 20kg of heroin smuggled from Afghanistan. Border officials said the Afghan traffickers had been usin ... Fox News Video: U.S. Soldiers Guarding Opium Fields in Afghanistan (YouTube) posted 06/17/2011 Life as a U.S. soldier: Overseas, you protect the heroin trade. When you come back to the U.S. and join the police, you murder people for consuming the heroin from the ver ... How Prohibition Makes Heroin More Dangerous (Reason) posted 02/06/2014 Because someone famous died in Manhattan from an apparent heroin overdose on Sunday, The New York Times has a front-page story today about 'a city that is awash in cheap her ... Afghan heroin supply on rise across America (Los Angeles Times) posted 12/28/2006 LOS ANGELES - The amount of high-quality heroin throughout America is surging because of an increasing supply from Afghanistan, and with it the fear that record-breaking poppy ... Heroin mix takes more than 80 lives in recent weeks (CBS News) posted 02/18/2014 ... of cake mix and paper towels, and went into the bathroom, where he injected himself with heroin. Hours later, the man was found dead in the bathroom with a needle s ... Overdose Deaths From Heroin Galvanizing Leaders in Maryland and Virginia (Washington Post) posted 02/23/2015 Political leaders in Annapolis and Richmond are searching for ways to combat a wave of heroin overdoses that is killing dozens of their constituents each month — in inner-city ... Ron Paul Explains Why It's OK To Legalize Heroin (YouTube) posted 05/06/2011 'I never thought heroin would get applause here in South Carolina!' - Fox News host's loaded question gets slapped down with gusto! ... Ex-police 'hero' sentenced in scheme to steal heroin (Philly.com) posted 05/28/2011 ... to 42 months in federal prison today for his role in a scheme to rob a drug dealer of heroin and resell it for cash. ... Troops will be in Afghanistan for next 20 years, says commander (The Independent) posted 10/18/2006 ... run by the West supplying 92 per cent of the world's opium - much of which ends up as heroin. The UN agency's remarks are stark news for Britain, which at one ti ... The Water Bed Effect in Drug Prohibition (Cato.org) posted 03/10/2014 ... what has occurred over the past ten years with respect to prescription opiates and heroin. As enforcement cracked down on Oxycontin and similar medications, demand shifte ... Adolf Hitler Was High On Heroin And Nazi Troops Were On Meth, Book Claims (The Daily Mail) posted 09/21/2015 ... book in Germany details how a 'Breaking-Bad' Adolf Hitler was zonked out of his head on heroin-type drug while his Blitzkrieg troops fought the war on a narcotic called P ... Former officer allegedly stole more than 800 packets of heroin (NewsItem) posted 09/20/2012 ... department to support a drug habit, in which he allegedly stole more than 800 packets of heroin from police at one time. Christian Wilson, 30, of 919 Monroe St., Ber ... Simple Question About U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Stumps Officials (Wall Street Journal) posted 12/13/2013 ... (R., Calif.) had a simple question Wednesday for three of the Obama administration’s top Afghanistan specialists: How many American troops have been killed in Afghanistan ... Afghan province to provide one-third of world's heroin (The Guardian) posted 06/14/2006 ... province being patrolled by British troops will produce at least a third of the world's heroin this year, according to drug experts who are forecasting a record harvest t ... Government's Addiction to Prohibition (Will Grigg) posted 02/16/2014 The death, by heroin overdose, of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman inspired media discussion of what has been called the “heroin epidemic.” Little, if any, attention ... Obama: 'Drug Addiction Is a Health Problem, Not a Criminal Problem' (The Guardian) posted 03/30/2016 Barack Obama committed Tuesday to take on America’s growing heroin and prescription opioid epidemic by devoting resources to prevention and treatment, rather than to the “war ... DEA Chief Won't Admit Heroin Worse Than Marijuana (InformationLiberation) posted 06/22/2012 ... clips below, Michele Leonhart, the current head of the DEA, is asked repeatedly whether heroin and other hard drugs are worse than marijuana, to which she repeatedly dodg ... |
