DRAIN THE SWAMP!
“Donnelly Welcomes $18 Million in Federal Funds to Combat Opioid Epidemic”
We see the Hegelian Dialectic at work here:
The gov and their minions make money smuggling drugs.
Then, the gov and their minions extort money from the tax payers to treat addictions.
Collective Stockholm syndrome.
Way to go Joe….
“War has always been about resources and control. Alongside the supposed surprise discovery of Afghanistan’s $1 trillion wealth of untapped minerals, the Taliban had successfully eradicated the opium crop in the Golden Crescent before the US invasion. Now, more than 90% of the world’s heroin comes from the war torn country.”
http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/
“In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.”
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/