Meth the Canadian export

[Sky727]

I had no idea this was happening in Canada. ? I assume others have no idea either. 

Canada is one of the biggest drug exporters of methamphetamine to New Zealand and Australia in the world. From cartels in Canada to biker gangs in the South Pacific, W5’s Avery Haines investigates the methamphetamine pipeline and the devastation left in its wake. WARNING: The following program contains mature subject matter and imagery and discussions of drug use, which may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

Very creative ways of shipping and turning the product into crystal Meth.  How anyone could be so stupid is very hard for me to understand... After watching the full video I think there are kick backs to very high officials to look the other way which seems to be typical for Cartels.








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[andy06shake]

After watching the full video I think there are kick backs to very high officials to look the other way which seems to be typical for Cartels.

Bingo!

There is no real war on drugs.

As long as you are willing to pay the correct piper.

And the reason is simply.

Let's talk about money, money, money.

[Unknownparadox]

After watching the full video I think there are kick backs to very high officials to look the other way which seems to be typical for Cartels.

A drugged population is a easy to control population

[Sky727]

A drugged population is a easy to control population

Or the wet dream of the ones pushing Eugenics; natural selection is still alive and well IMO it just takes longer than some would like.

[CriticalStinker]

A drugged population is a easy to control population

Most of the population doesn’t do hard drugs though.

The two common drugs are alcohol and weed.

Alcohol puts people in a stupor, so I can see the argument there. But weed has more of a psychoactive effect, with a lot of users being a part of some sort of counter culture that questions authority. While on paper it looks like they’d push back, one of the biggest side effects is being lazy as shit lol. Maybe they convince themselves they’ll go challenge the system after they knock back some Fritos. May take a little bit of time though, gonna have to put chili and cheese on them, maybe some diced onion and jalapeño.

[UltraBudgie]

Or the wet dream of the ones pushing Eugenics; natural selection is still alive and well IMO it just takes longer than some would like.

Hard truths here that you bring up. And if I may address the public generally: it's your fault for taking the poison. No one is forcing it on you. That's the way they think. And they're not wrong, sadly.

They'll set up ever opportunity you want to find your ruin. That's "freedom".

The one thing they won't give you is uncorrupted institutions to pass any moral rectitude from one generation to the next. That's up to you to build, and they laugh that you've somehow let them convince you that a sense of morality in the public culture is evil, and that the good thing to do is let your children fly blind into the woodchipper.

Nancy Reagan was right. Just say no.

See how even the most experienced among you still want to mock that? Why do you think DARE was made to be so ridiculous?

[andy06shake]

Or the wet dream of the ones pushing Eugenics; natural selection is still alive and well IMO it just takes longer than some would like.

Eugenics never really goes away.

The concept simply goes underground.

And then rears its ugly puss once again.

When the political climate becomes conducive.

One of the main reasons is that we refuse to learn from history.

And seem doomed to repeat our past transgressions and mistakes.

[CriticalStinker]

Hard truths here that you bring up. And if I may address the public generally: it's your fault for taking the poison. No one is forcing it on you. That's the way they think. And they're not wrong, sadly.

They'll set up ever opportunity you want to find your ruin. That's "freedom".

The one thing they won't give you is uncorrupted institutions to pass any moral rectitude from one generation to the next. That's up to you to build, and they laugh that you've somehow let them convince you that a sense of morality in the public culture is evil, and that the good thing to do is let your children fly blind into the woodchipper.

Nancy Reagan was right. Just say no.

See how even the most experienced among you still want to mock that? Why do you think DARE was made to be so ridiculous?

Drugs are a choice, and it’s easy to say no to a sketchy guy trying to sell you his wares on a dark street corner.

But in the early 2000’s, if you were a teen and broke a bone playing sports there was a good chance you’d get prescribed an opiate with refills.

Or maybe you had problems concentrating like most every other adolescence since the history of time. No problem, we have salt amphetamines for that.

Pretty easy to slip down a slope when you trust the doctors to much. 

It’s easy to know how to say no to random people, though I think we need to teach society they need to advocate for themselves in the health system as well.

[UltraBudgie]

I think we need to teach society they need to advocate for themselves

Good points! But I think you can see the trap in this bit that you said? Who shall we turn to to do that? Institutions that are part-and-parcel of the system?

A societal sense of self-reliance and discernment cannot be instilled by the educational and medical institutions in our society. They're predicated on giving your trust to them, for them to determine what is true and proper. They're not entirely like that—there are good teacher and good doctors—but that is what gives the system its power, so at the end of the day that is where it will lead.

Instead, the solution you seek must come from the bottom-up, coalescing from the individual level to the cultural. And I'm sad to say I think it requires an approach of what is now called "victim blaming". Saying loudly that it not acceptable to fall into such traps. It's not entirely the addicts fault, of course—we can't abandon all empathy—but they should know better. Coddling them, shielding them from that hard truth, only transfers responsibility for a solution to the very systems that have failed and let the problems multiply in the first place. I do think empathy and compassion have been weaponized, too; love isn't always easy and passive; sometimes it's tough.

[CriticalStinker]

Good points! But I think you can see the trap in this bit that you said? Who shall we turn to to do that? Institutions that are part-and-parcel of the system?

A societal sense of self-reliance and discernment cannot be instilled by the educational and medical institutions in our society. They're predicated on giving your trust to them, for them to determine what is true and proper. They're not entirely like that—there are good teacher and good doctors—but that is what gives the system its power, so at the end of the day that is where it will lead.

Instead, the solution you seek must come from the bottom-up, coalescing from the individual level to the cultural. And I'm sad to say I think it requires an approach of what is now called "victim blaming". Saying loudly that it not acceptable to fall into such traps. It's not entirely the addicts fault, of course—we can't abandon all empathy—but they should know better. Coddling them, shielding them from that hard truth, only transfers responsibility for a solution to the very systems that have failed and let the problems multiply in the first place. I do think empathy and compassion have been weaponized, too; love isn't always easy and passive; sometimes it's tough.

I can appreciate that.

But maybe I see it from the viewpoint of an investor.

Where can we get the most bang for our buck in combatting drugs? 

We’ve had a war on drugs for half a century now, and yet drugs seem to be as big of a problem as ever, maybe larger with the deaths from fentanyl. We also have more citizens incarcerated than any other nation, including China. That’s not per capita, that is total incarcerated.

So do we try to address this from a societal level with things like changing how we treat pain management (reducing the amounts of opiates prescribed, and how we treat ADD)? Or do we make the laws stricter and enforcement deadlier?

To me, it’s a simple answer. One where I have to ask if trying the same thing over and over expecting different results constitutes insanity.

Then again, I suppose the question has to be asked if those in power truly want to solve the problem. After all, legal or illegal, it’s a massive industry and global market. It also justified keeping such forces to “combat” it well funded.