Wilson Wilson
Bluelighter
The irony of all the anti-Taliban sentiment in the heroin thread haha
Didn't the Taliban actually try to ban poppy farming?
The irony of all the anti-Taliban sentiment in the heroin thread haha
Didn't the Taliban actually try to ban poppy farming?
Well, kind of. Before 9/11 they did but after we invaded opium and heroin production increased many fold as they needed the money for weapons. We (the British) initially went into Helmand in 2006 to eliminate poppy production but when we got there we were told that under no circumstances were we to interfere with poppy harvest as this was the local farmers livelihoods and we needed to keep them onside. If we came across heroin production then we were Ok to destroy it as that wasn't local farmer that was taliban. We destroyed millions of dollars of heroin but it was a drop in the ocean. Every time you buy brown on the street you are directly supporting the Taliban...not that it would make any difference to people... I'm not that nieve
Thanks for the info mate. That lines up with what I've heard about us and the Yanks guarding the poppy fields.
We as a country (UK) do a huge amount of coke which supports all sorts of just as horrible organisations and drug lords but that's what you get from prohibition. Basic economics supply and demand. If there is no legal route to supply a good with high demand then a ruthless criminal organisation will be more than happy to do it.
On the other hand I did a whip around the local pharmacies yesterday and came back with a fuckload of codeine linctus which is produced by people who aren't terrorists because it isn't illegal.
Preaching to the choir here I know but this won't stop until the government gives up on the already lost "war on drugs."
The Taliban have literally tonnes of opium in storage enough to refine in to heroin to keep it turning over for years. I've seen pictures of massive caves full of sacks of u refined opium.
Mate, I saw so much unrefined opium you wouldn't believe it. Also saw a heroin factory which must have contained at least 1000 kilos of pure heroin as well as tones of unrefined opium, barrels of chemicals and assorted containers of opium in various states of refinement in the process of being converted into heroin. We destroyed it all (under orders from Bastion) by placing bar mines on the walls of the building to bring it down, then getting an F-18 that was circling overhead to drop a 2000 lb JDAM bomb on what was left.
The ANA (Afghan National Army) and ANP (Afghan National Police) we worked with were pretty much all opium fiends and would be stoned on opium and weed pretty much 24/7.. which when you're counting on them having your back in a contact is scary as fuck. They'd shoot at anything and didn't even understand the concept of things like positively identifying targets before engaging them and fire discipline. Having a stoned Afghan open fire at a passing shadow from 3 feet behind you with a PKM machine gun makes you glad that desert cammo trousers are brown in colour anyway I can tell you lol.
Brilliant!!!![]()
The part about the Afghans? They were a funny lot mate. They give it all the Allah U Akbar bullshit, yet to a man they were all fucking benders, constantly bumming each other and also constantly off their tits on weed and opium (all of which, I'm pretty sure is strictly forbidden under Islam). They were so full of shit it was untrue.
Yeh, I can certainly see why working with them could be a little iffy...
Edit: and as for being forbidden under Islam... Well we know far too well how these religious types are very good at distorting their teachings to justify their behaviours...
Not that I deserve any sympathy but I've just blown a fucking vein in my left arm. Best part of 2 weeks with only my prescribed methadone and a few benzos, so I woke up this morning with 2 appts, one for my bi - monthly weed pick up (as I only smoke on w/e's) and as I was in the city, 2 stones and 4 bags of heroin as a treat which is getting less regular all of the time. Never the less, it is the only way I am capable of experiencing any pleasure any more, with my pathetic lack of any life well documented enough as to not bore anyone with further details.
After smoking the cocaine and left edgy (it was ok stuff but it has never really been my DOC and I only use it as I never use more than one or 2 pieces and thus it provides a nice narco - aperitif before doing the gear) I took 2 500mcg clonazepam tablets, quickly followed by a mg of xanax, impatient for the onset. After taking my daily prescribed methadone I cooked up the first bag and afer getting a small register from an overused wire began to depress the plunger, only to be greeted by a masive amount of pain and a huge hard lump followed by the surrounding skin flaring up like a hive.
Then, doubling down on my slefishness and stupidity I quickly re - sited the fucker and managed to get a good hit, the immediate rationale being that any daamage was already done and that provided I do not get a serious injury or not, being aware that my days of IV use are now over.
As per my usual MO I smoked a second bag and am now feeling pretty great but with the dope and the bzd's suddenly hitting me all at once I am too fucked to seek medical attention having been treated like a child molester last time I went to the local ER afer doing something similar with my right arm a few months ago.
I have my weekly support group at my DSP tomorrow so provided I do not die or experience and worsening of symptoms between now and then I too disillusioned to give a fuck. I have been so miserable of late and after keeping it pretty straight for the last 2 weeks I was looking forward to a twist today. I am just going to hope that if I do not lose my arm then I have at least hit one rocky bottom, one that should be enough to dissuade me from having a poke ever again.
Fuck my life,.. (blah blah blah, melodramatic self pity removed),
I think the days of me sticking syringes in myself has come to an end.