Heroin

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'Heroin (or ') is a pain killing drug used recreationally. It is used by millions of people annually.

History

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The drug was first made in 1874. It is produced by refinement of opium, the collected dried sap of opium poppies.

Legal status

It is generally illegal to manufacture, possess, or sell heroin without a license. Internationally, heroin is controlled under Schedules I and IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.[1]

Production

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Afghanistan was previously ill suited to heroin cultivation, but after US-funded dams were built in the 1950s and 1960s, a rise in the water table in large areas of the country meant it became well suited.[2] Nevertheless, after the Taliban prohibited its cultivation, production for one year was very low. After the US lead invasion, production has rocketed to record levels.

In 2012 Afghanistan produced 95% of the world's opium.[3]

Trafficking

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The first step is generally the trafficking of raw opium, which Sibel Edmonds has stated is flown by military cargo plane to Turkey for refinement before it is shipped for sale to Europe or North America.

CIA Involvement

In 2014, a surprise drug bust of 35kg of heroin revealed that some was flown to Australia from USA via the Phillipines in a CIA-owned plane. Daniel Hopsicker has noted that this could be explained by high prices for heroin in Australia.[4]

 

Related Quotation

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Drug smuggling“I stood at the Friendship Bridge at Termez [Uzbekistan] in 2003 and watched the Jeeps with blacked-out windows bringing the heroin through from Afghanistan, en route to Europe. I watched the tankers of chemicals roaring into Afghanistan. Yet I could not persuade my country to do anything about it.”Craig Murray

 

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References

  1. "Yellow List: List of Narcotic Drugs Under International Control" (PDF). International Narcotics Control Board. December 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2006.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto"). Referring URL = http://www.incb.org/incb/yellow_list.html
  2. Bitter lake, Adam Curtis
  3. Editorial Board (26 October 2014). "Afghanistan's Unending Addiction". Newspaper. The New York Times. Retrieved 28 May 2016.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  4. http://www.madcowprod.com/2014/09/12/mystery-aircraft-busted-in-australia-was-cia-plane/


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