Word: opium
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Everything looks like an opium hallucination in the video, and Missy gets to do some real-ish acting, too. We’re barraged with non-chronological images of Missy getting arrested, Missy’s boy flipping his car, Missy contemplating married life, and, in the coolest part of the video, Missy getting sedated in a mental ward...
...Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and élite Afghan counter-drug units are poised to stage an aggressive offensive this fall against drug traffickers who are reaping enormous profits in Afghanistan, the world's No. 1 source of opium and heroin. Although Afghanistan's poppy farmers produce about 87% of the world's opium, according to a recent United Nations report, the Bush Administration has been unwilling to deploy the U.S. military to eradicate poppy fields for fear of antagonizing the hundreds of thousands of impoverished villagers whose livelihoods depend on the crop...
...dollars have gone into destroying and then rebuilding Iraq. We could have deployed enough troops in Afghanistan to help the central government take on the warlords and extend its power beyond Kabul. But now the Taliban are making a comeback, and Afghanistan is once again the world leader in opium production. The war in Iraq was not necessary. Saddam Hussein had been contained, and he had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorists. The Iraq invasion was a tragic blunder. Victor M. Silva Hermosa Beach, California...
...until the public, alarmed by the growing number of addicts, called for strict anti-narcotics laws in the early 20th century. In the public mind, opioids such as morphine and laudanum, although they remained the most effective pain relievers, became associated with their illegal cousins--heroin and opium--and doctors often shied away from prescribing them...
...with China; some are former headhunters. The U.W.S.A. struck a cease-fire with the junta in 1989 in return for keeping the peace. It also kept its weapons and, free to run its home region as a semi-autonomous state, expanded its trade in heroin?the Wa hills are opium-growing territory?and later in methamphetamines. Today, the U.W.S.A. is one of Southeast Asia's largest drug-trafficking organizations, according to the U.S. Justice Department, which in January indicted eight senior Wa officials in absentia on narcotics charges. By forcing its impoverished people to migrate, and through military action...