Yesterday, UNODC (United Nations on Drugs and Crime) released the World Drug Report 2009. The Report shows that global markets for cocaine, opiates and cannabis are steady or in decline, while the production and use of synthetic drugs is feared to be increasing in the developing world.
Should this be strange? Every other person in our fantastic western society is on legal drugs: antidepressants. We don’t need cocaine, opiates or cannabis anymore – we have soma. And we even get it for free – they are covered by the health/social security. “Mine are very weak” said a friend few days ago, “they are for kids and teenagers.” Great, so now we even started legally drugging our kids and teenagers.
We should urgently start exporting antidepressants to the developing world. We get to earn money and they don’t have to “produce and use” synthetic drugs. A win-win situation par excellence.
Tags: Capitalism, Commentary, System
Its worse than you think. Parents are drugging their kids all over and regularly today. For concentration, calming them down, making them smarter, whatever they try to get from them.
And the synthetic drugs are made because they are cheaper to produce, You don’t need a obvious field anymore, you can do that in a lab in your cellar. On top of it most of the drugs are legal in the first months since the mix is new and there is no law against them yet.
By the way another scary story is that a report that has been locked away by the US government for 14 years shows that the drug on wars is actually encouraging more drug use and gives more money to drug producers:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30587/1.html