I have been a lurker for about two years, never bothered to join because every post i read (and I mean EVERY) has a mod come in to say use the search function. Sometimes posting is more about having someone to talk to instead of just pure research am I correct?
Not the best first sentence to my introduction and I am sure over the years mods grow tired of seeing the exact same thing posted countless times so I understand where they are coming from, but I am saying this is my personal reason for never posting. Why post when it will get shut down? But I want to talk about a topic I don't see anyone talking about. On a side note I am a former dealer that has been out of the game for many years, I was mid level, not the guy you call for your fix. So I have a open mind on how the real world works.
So the topic I am bringing up deals with fentynol, a drug created in 1959 and also a drug that no one heard about until fairly recently. Sure some people knew about it but not like it is known today with it being front page news almost daily. I wonder if the weed legalization in certain places in the west has made big corporations, pharmaceutical companies and large retail chains looking to make more profit could be the very reason for this whole epidemic.
Why did I come to this conclusion? When it was first making the news I thought back to the prohibition era in the 1920's and how that all ended, one of the biggest reasons to end it was because drinkers were dying from an unregulated product. The argument then was to legalize, tax and regulate it to make it safer for the community. Fentynol is having this very same effect. Do a quick google search and you now see that mainstream news is posting articles about full legalization as a measure of harm reduction. BC has a prescription heroin program that is small of course but seems like a way to back up legalization talks in the future with a proven case study.
Big pharma is big money with it's tentacles in every aspect of government, I am talking real power to manipulate newspapers, law enforcement intelligence agency's the works. We know that over the past decade the rise of oxy and the money it made them, but now good luck getting prescribed for pain meds these days. Is it too far fetched to think that they might come up with a way to get drugs legalized to increase profits in a magnitude the likes they have never seen before? I think oxy wet their beak so to speak, so they looked at the past and devised a way to change public perception on the war on drugs. No other way would have worked. It would have been another 50 years before you read any article even remotely talking about legalization of hard drugs.
I have always been for legalization and I don't even use opiates, I just use common sense. But whenever the media start beating their drums on a subject you should always try to see the agenda being put forth. Mainstream media is owned by large corporations, they don't need to lie but they can focus on something to make it something that you talk about and think on. You see it all the time and then you come to the conclusion that something must be done now. I think within 2 years you will see a radical change on drug policy in the west. It's just sad that they went about it in this manner.
Not the best first sentence to my introduction and I am sure over the years mods grow tired of seeing the exact same thing posted countless times so I understand where they are coming from, but I am saying this is my personal reason for never posting. Why post when it will get shut down? But I want to talk about a topic I don't see anyone talking about. On a side note I am a former dealer that has been out of the game for many years, I was mid level, not the guy you call for your fix. So I have a open mind on how the real world works.
So the topic I am bringing up deals with fentynol, a drug created in 1959 and also a drug that no one heard about until fairly recently. Sure some people knew about it but not like it is known today with it being front page news almost daily. I wonder if the weed legalization in certain places in the west has made big corporations, pharmaceutical companies and large retail chains looking to make more profit could be the very reason for this whole epidemic.
Why did I come to this conclusion? When it was first making the news I thought back to the prohibition era in the 1920's and how that all ended, one of the biggest reasons to end it was because drinkers were dying from an unregulated product. The argument then was to legalize, tax and regulate it to make it safer for the community. Fentynol is having this very same effect. Do a quick google search and you now see that mainstream news is posting articles about full legalization as a measure of harm reduction. BC has a prescription heroin program that is small of course but seems like a way to back up legalization talks in the future with a proven case study.
Big pharma is big money with it's tentacles in every aspect of government, I am talking real power to manipulate newspapers, law enforcement intelligence agency's the works. We know that over the past decade the rise of oxy and the money it made them, but now good luck getting prescribed for pain meds these days. Is it too far fetched to think that they might come up with a way to get drugs legalized to increase profits in a magnitude the likes they have never seen before? I think oxy wet their beak so to speak, so they looked at the past and devised a way to change public perception on the war on drugs. No other way would have worked. It would have been another 50 years before you read any article even remotely talking about legalization of hard drugs.
I have always been for legalization and I don't even use opiates, I just use common sense. But whenever the media start beating their drums on a subject you should always try to see the agenda being put forth. Mainstream media is owned by large corporations, they don't need to lie but they can focus on something to make it something that you talk about and think on. You see it all the time and then you come to the conclusion that something must be done now. I think within 2 years you will see a radical change on drug policy in the west. It's just sad that they went about it in this manner.
