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IMAGINE if the Bolivian government subsidized coca farmers and then pressured the U.S. to allow the importation of processed cocaine. Imagine if Burma appealed to international law to get the U.S. to accept shipments of heroin...
...Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "But it's easier to deal with than the problems at home. It's more glamorous and exciting when you have Saddam or evil communism as the enemy. It's not that simple when, say, you've got a million heroin addicts, a massive crime problem, poverty, lousy education, no health care, urban decay, alcoholism...
...York Times and the Wall Street Journal. At issue was the real Air America, the CIA-run airline that ferried arms and supplies to anti-communist forces in Indochina during the Vietnam War. As flippantly depicted in the movie, the airline serves as a front for heroin smuggling condoned by the CIA in order to fund the U.S.'s secret war in Laos. This version, the articles point out, does violence not only to the many props that are blown up, but also to the real- life pilots of Air America and to the historical record...
...myth that those who try marijuana eventually go on to heroin is true in some cases, but in general upgrading to more potent drugs is not the result of users' demands, but is a reaction to the relative availability and risk of using different types of illegal drugs...
From the drug culture, AIDS is starting to seep into the heterosexual population. More and more women are getting AIDS, mostly because they either inject drugs themselves or have sex with infected men. But the problem is not limited to the households of heroin addicts. AIDS is increasingly common among abusers of drugs that are not injected, such as crack cocaine and alcohol. These people tend to be sexually uninhibited and promiscuous, which increases their risk of picking up the AIDS virus. Last year about 5% of the new AIDS cases resulted from heterosexual contact, compared with...