If the US was just neighbors with Canada I guarantee you illegal drugs would be much harder to come by in the US. Most other developed nations have the luxury of being neighbors only with other developed nations (or being islands)
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rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 days agoThey are.
If you look up who consumes the most drugs I think you’ll find some really fun facts. Not only do more people in the US consume drugs but the quantity is also noticeably higher than anyone else.
The pusher theory is bs. Nobody is out there handing out free drugs to get people hooked.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 days ago
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You sure about that?
Besides the problematic developed vs undeveloped labelling, most rich countries exploit cheap labor and production I. The closest or most convenient “poorer” nation.
Europe has used the Balkans and eastern countries that was since the iron curtain came down (and before that really). Russia too.
The US and China both got rich doing it internally, but then moved on to cheaper labor or new resources when domestic sources were used up.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I didn’t realize how large the Balkan drug trade was, thank you for that information. It seems the proliferation of illegal drugs is a problem of similar scope in Europe as the U.S.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Anything to avoid accepting responsibility for ourselves, we have to blame “less developed” nations for our own failure to treat addiction at scale. Did you know the opiate crisis was created by the pharmaceutical industry for profit? Or that the CIA is known to have been (and let’s be honest, likely still is) involved in international drug trafficking, including financing the Nicaraguan Contras’ cocaine trafficking into the US, primarily in poor black communities?
Our for-profit healthcare system, the criminalization of drug addiction, and deliberate support of drug trafficking by our own government to achieve political aims both foreign and domestic created our drug problem. We have only ourselves to blame.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
lol
Americans are addicted to everything. Weed, coke, crack, fentanyl, alcohol, pain killers. If only they were addicted to not blaming everyone else for their fuck ups. Obviously, they are not mature adults.
IronBird@lemmy.world 3 days ago
well…not free, but bug pharma has been caught many times bribing doctors to over-perscribe addictive medications to their patients
rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Big pharma is the pusher that cartels are accused of being.