The UK literally wrote the playbook for flooding regions with drugs to manipulate them lol
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undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It is a wonder how this can go on. I live in London and I, like most people, can have weed delivered, just as you would a pizza flavours and all.
Most people who’ve been on the internet long enough are aware of the CIA flooding the US with crack in the 80s. They thing most people don’t realise is that the CIA have also run the global heroin game since the 1940s too. The crack in the 80s job was neither the first nor the largest time they did it. For anyone interested, Google operation gladio.
Heroin was grown in Myanmar, moved out through Thailand, shipped to France where it either ended up with the mob in the US or flooded into eroupe all under the protection of the CIA. Myanmar was the largest supplier of heroin in the world, right up until Afghanistan took the title in the 2010s.
I know right?
It make no sense at all why the UK wouldn’t legalise weed. Well, that is, it makes no sense at all, right up until the second you stop presuming any kind of good faith. The second you stop, then, as if by magic, everything clicks into place.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The difference being that one is well documented history and the one isn’t.
If it wasn’t the CIA, it would probably be someone one. You don’t have to take it as a personal insult, if you don’t want to. Especially as it wasn’t meant as one.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Oh definitely fuck the CIA and everything they stand for, they probably set the US back 50+ years at minimum, longer for other countries, with their bullshit.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Adding, the UK is the world’s largest legal weed exporter. And many politicians are connected with that industry. Directly or via funding through other financial industry means.
The illegality in the UK makes setting up legal grow farms more complex and outside of smaller investors / business startups. So the laws help to keep competition out of the legal export market.