And the CIA pumped a load of heroin into the inner cities to pacify the urban black population as part of their financing of various undeclared wars in the South-East Asian conflict.
Decades later a similar thing would happen with crack cocaine as part of the anti-Sandinista action.
I dislike gow this narrative completely bypasses the power hungry, money hungey gangsters who were perfectly fine making money off the backs of their communities.
I thought that was still on conspiracy theory stage. CIA’s involvement in drug trade is known and proven, them using it as a tool against black people not so much
In that case you have to say that it was purely accidental that heroin tore through the ghetto while most of white society was unaffected. And then the same thing happened accidentally twenty years later.
And then compare and contrast to the current opioid crisis, which did affect all strata of society because prescription drugs were marketed to doctors as safe.
The FBI murdered their leadership, for one.
And the CIA pumped a load of heroin into the inner cities to pacify the urban black population as part of their financing of various undeclared wars in the South-East Asian conflict.
Decades later a similar thing would happen with crack cocaine as part of the anti-Sandinista action.
Fun fact, the reason cocaine is on the drug schedule is so they could put black people in jail.
I dislike gow this narrative completely bypasses the power hungry, money hungey gangsters who were perfectly fine making money off the backs of their communities.
I dislike how this comment is deliberately vague as to who you’re talking about.
Oh, you know who they mean.
The non-CIA people involved in the heroin and crack epidemics
So you want to blame the street level dealers rather than people making it available wholesale.
I thought that was still on conspiracy theory stage. CIA’s involvement in drug trade is known and proven, them using it as a tool against black people not so much
In that case you have to say that it was purely accidental that heroin tore through the ghetto while most of white society was unaffected. And then the same thing happened accidentally twenty years later.
And then compare and contrast to the current opioid crisis, which did affect all strata of society because prescription drugs were marketed to doctors as safe.