>how many trumptards
Call anon the usual, a Qtard. Pronouns KYS/GFYS/TFGTFO
"A horse tranquilizer is increasingly popping up as a street drug in the U.S., and it is now involved in nearly one-third of fatal opioid drug overdoses in Philadelphia, according to a new study.
The tranquilizer drug, called xylazine, is not considered an opioid, but it is often found mixed with the opioids heroin or fentanyl, a combination sometimes referred to as "tranq dope," according to the study published Tuesday (Feb. 2) in the journal Injury Prevention."
(this drug is rotting the flesh off addicts)
https://www.livescience.com/tranquilizer-xylazine-opioid-overdose-deaths.html
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>prohibition created the Mafia
WRONG
The Mafia (Cosa Nostra) came to Palermo, Sicily, or at least grew in power there, 1860s or so.
"Then, after 1860, when Sicily officially became part of Italy, parcels of what had been church- and state-owned land went up for sale. This led to a proliferation of small farms, and many of these new landowners also decided to grow lemons, by far the most profitable crop. They, too, found themselves in the position of having to hire guards—and those who couldn’t afford to do so found themselves targeted not only by thieves, but by the gabellotti and their guards, who saw a unique opportunity for extortion.
“The coalition between gabellotti, [guards], and [thieves] triggered a system of corruption and intimidation such that landowners who could not afford to hire a guard became the target of brigands,” the economists write. “This adverse institutional environment provided the breeding ground for the organization which would become known as the mafia.”
In the paper, they present some empirical proof for this claim—after studying a large-scale crime survey from 1886 and a map of mob activity from 1900, they found that the probability of Mafia presence in a given area of Sicily relates strongly to that area’s level of citrus production. Although other researchers have linked the birth of organized crime to different local resource booms, including the rise of sulfur mines, “we believe our paper complements [this research], and is able to explain some aspects that previous theories were not able to explain,” writes one of the authors, Alessia Isopi, in an email."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mafia-lemons-citrus-sicily-economics
Find an industry, find a criminal extorting the industry. The lemons were hard to produce and made Palermo attractive so the Italy mob moved to the island. They've been in Italy since… forever.