Nobody says the real reason why we are in Afghaistan and why heroin is super plentiful and an epidemic especially in the NE USA. MJ is not heroin.
Heroin is plentiful because we toppled the Taliban! They controlled the country. They did not allow poppies to be grown.
The Taliban forbade it because the end use was harmful to humans! Even if it was to go to it's enemies homelands!
We swept in and defeated the Taliban and further removed ways for the Afghan people to make a living. They simply went back to what they knew. They grew poppies. Our military looked the other way. Huge amounts of opium where made - then heroin in high quality forms. This flooded the market.
THE WORLD MARKET!!
In my travels to Europe. You can go into coffee shops in Italy and Spain and you get a spoon with a hole in it. So junkies don't steal them to cook. Some parks in about every country are filled with junkies! There are a few that have a bit better control on the problem but, for the most part. EU countries are freaking out over the new wave of younger and younger users.
I saw a street in LA where the gutters and along the walls are a literal rainbow of empty balloons covering the ground!
It's an epidemic EVERYWHERE and NOT just the N.E. USA!
WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES! or maybe we can blame G. W. for not making alternative earning methods for those we "concur"!
You don't just go in and overthrow a government and expect things to be hunky dory, peachy keen!
W was and IS a MORON!