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...Bordeaux from Hong Kong to the border at Lo Wu, whisk them through the state-run duty free store, and wheel half of the consignment straight into the city without paying the mandatory 180% duty. Other gangs run cigarettes into Shenzhen, or, in the reverse direction, everything from heroin and methamphetamines ("ice") to fake designer gear, cell phones, endangered species and forged credit cards. And, of course, illegal immigrants, who cross at Lo Wu or cram into sea containers to Hong Kong, the busiest port in the world...
...then there are drugs: south China's triads run a virtual drug superhighway from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle via China to Hong Kong?and then to anywhere in the world. In mid-April, Vancouver customs officials found 42 kg of heroin with a street value of $64 million stuffed inside cans of pineapple chunks. (The contraband had been canned in Guangdong and shipped through Hong Kong.) Every weekend night, tens of thousands of Hong Kong nightclubbers rip through an ever-expanding number of Shenzhen dance halls where ecstasy, ketamine and ice are freely available and thrillingly cheap. E sells...
...sniff glue. He would do anything, take any kind of drug. I remember seeing him on St. Mark's Place after he left the band, hair short and spiky, in skintight Spandex pants that looked left over from some mall scene of years before. He was thin, "on the heroin diet" as we used to say. Somehow he survived, fought off the dope, wrote a book about it: "Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones...
...expensive because pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to lower their profit margins. The sad fact is that though Galeano is continually pointing out the obvious, it needs to be pointed out. Drugs to combat AIDS are not the only ones that are artificially expensive: marijuana, cocaine and heroin are also costly. Galeano quotes a former head of the New York City police narcotics squad: “If imported cocaine were to disappear, in two months it would be replaced by synthetic drugs.” Galeano persuasively argues that the drug war has had little effect on illegal drugs besides...
...before the revolution. When Dragan and his armed men raided Kertes' offices two days later, they found a trove that included $1.3 million in deutsche marks and Yugoslav dinars, 15 sniper rifles, 10 bulletproof luxury cars, and, in a safe, 7 kg of high-grade heroin...