Disrupting the Global Heroin Trade – Fours & Doors
Let me preface this piece with a small but very important disclaimer: In no way, shape, or form am I actually suggesting or condoning the use of drugs, the making, selling, buying, or storage of drugs. This is merely a thought experiment in the ways a small group of individuals with some chemical know-how & good luck might be able to disrupt the global heroin trade and therefore the global political scene. The author is not responsible for what you do with this information. Read, know, and don’t do this at home…find a shack in the woods.
The idea first hit me when reading an article about the global drug trade; the person being interviewed (“Daurius Figueira is a social researcher who has spent the last 20 years investigating the illicit drug trade”) was extremely sure of his opinion that the world is not ruled by reptilians but actually by drug lords. This will likely come as a shock to most of you, as I know it did for me, but at least with actual people the threat is a tad more real and thus harbors a chance of confrontation. It may be impossible to guess the motivations of an alien species that’s hell bent on domination of the human race, but human on human warfare is old as sin and as easy to understand: greed & power.
Just because you have money and power, though, does not mean that you are invincible. Nor is your empire immune to all the faults of the great empires: hubris, decadence, and corruption. Like a very expensive and high-stakes game of Jenga, I am calling upon the forces of Discord to kick Operation MindFuck into high gear and knock their tower down. This would completely shake up the political scene, and it’s all so convoluted there’s no real way of telling how it would end, just that something would change.
“So what the hell are you talking about?” I’m sure you’re asking yourself right now. Let’s take a look…
What’s the latest on the drug scene?
I don’t talk about the drug trade anymore. I talk to the drug trade.
So you are saying that the world is controlled by 12 men who are not lizards from another planet, but drug lords? [This is in reference to David Icke’s theory that the world is controlled by a global elite of reptilian humanoids.]
Yes. Mmmmm. [He nods his head vigorously, smiling.]
And governments are mere pawns?
The greatest allies of these people is geopolitics. Because geopolitics takes preference over the war on drugs.
All of this is, so far, being taken from this article.
How is the global recession going to affect the local drug trade?
The recession does not affect the major trade because the trade continues. Remember the trade deals in demand and supply that is external to us. And the trade has a whole social order that it constructs, and the social order is endemically violent. So that is why you have people talking this ’legalise it’ ole talk, under the premise that if you legalize it you will end the violence. But I have news for them-Ent alcohol and cigarettes are legal? So why then two of the commodities that organized crime smuggles are cigarettes and alcohol? Because from the time you have high excise tax on cigarettes and alcohol, they [organized crime bosses] smuggle them from low-taxation areas to high-taxation areas to make a killing. So what guarantee you have, that when you tell me, legalize it, the violence will done?
You have no guarantees. What happens is that you place the State in a position that every single illicit drug that is invented, you have to keep legalising it as it is invented. Because the drug dealers want super-profits, and when it is illegal, they make more profit. So they will keep inventing new ones. And they invented crack heroin?
…You have to understand, the oligarchs who dominate the trade also dominate the politics and they’re already maximizing profits. The problem is they don’t want to share. And the next thing you have to understand is that the oligarchs in the Caribbean are not Africans. So they have a race agenda. Because they want to ensure their domination of societies in which Africans are the majority
Now, let’s for a moment assume everything that man said is true…I’m not saying it is, but he has spent an awfully long time investigating such things. Well, it’s fairly apparent that legalizing isn’t necessarily a cure-all for the social & political ills of the global drug trade. Furthermore, there’s no way that the demand for such substances will ever disappear in the near future; there is a far better chance that the middle east will turn into a gigantic music festival full of peaceful hippies smoking grass.
What can be done to disrupt the control of power in the world? This is a serious question that some people, seemingly ordinary people, mull over in their minds all night long. Silly demonstrations such as voting, protests, riots, and revolutions were discarded for far too ineffective long ago. What’s left?
Well, as far as the drug trade goes, the weakest point is that people really do not want the drug in itself; there’s nothing special about heroin or cocaine if something better than heroin or cocaine comes around, showing some leg. If you can deliver a quality product that is as strong/stronger, safer, cheaper, or easier to obtain…then the only way you could fail is due to some horrible act by the police or your competitors (often times they are in cahoots). Things could easily get hairy, which is why the first act of your new global drug empire should be to invest heavily in Artificial Intelligence technology and robotize as much of your cohorts as possible. Programmed lips tell no secrets.
Okay, but no, really: the heroin trade is huge. Huge. It’s taking Russia by storm, it’s making a come back in the USA, and apparently it’s all over Europe but tainted with Anthrax.
“Since December 6, there have been 15 confirmed cases of anthrax among heroin users, 14 in Scotland and one in Germany,” the ministry’s General Directorate for Health (DGS) said in a statement.
Heroin use, deaths spike in the St. Louis region
More than 150 people, many in their 20s or 30s, died in the region last year of heroin overdoses — part of a booming increase in use that officials link to falling prices and rising purity
Heroin Becoming Drug of Choice Among Teens
Russia now ‘top heroin consumer’
The head of Russia’s anti-narcotics service, Victor Ivanov, said that seizures of Afghan heroin were up 70%.
Drugs for guns: how the Afghan heroin trade is fuelling the Taliban insurgency
“We never sell the drugs for money,” boasted one of the smugglers. “We exchange them for ammunition and Kalashnikovs.”
The United Nations has announced that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has soared and is expected to increase by 59% in 2006. The production of opium is estimated to have increased by 49% in relation to 2005.
The Western media in chorus blame the Taliban and the warlords. The Bush administration is said to be committed to curbing the Afghan drug trade: “The US is the main backer of a huge drive to rid Afghanistan of opium… “
Yet in a bitter irony, US military presence has served to restore rather than eradicate the drug trade.
World failing to dent heroin trade, U.N. warns
Authorities are seizing too little heroin, intercepting only about 20 percent of opiate traffic around the world, according to the U.N. report, “Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: the Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium.”
It comes on the heels of a U.N. warning last month that two years’ worth of opium is effectively “missing,” probably stockpiled by the Taliban and criminal gangs.
More than 12,000 tons of opium, which can be consumed as a narcotic itself or turned into heroin, is unaccounted for, the United Nations estimated in September.
It is not clear who has it or why, but the United Nations speculates that criminals could be holding it as a hedge against falling prices or that insurgents or terrorists could be stockpiling it to fund attacks.
The last 2 weeks have seen authorities seize huge amounts of heroin across the country—a combined 510 pounds in California, plus 17 more in New York.
Mexican Heroin Seeps Into Rural US
Of course, to make things more complicated you have to understand that this is not a simple case of “t3h terr0rists have t3h drugz”, which some people try to ignorantly push. The government which declared a War on Drugs has been deep into the drug-dealing game itself for years and years. I‘m not going to do all yr homework for you because frankly this article is turning out to be far too long and I’m far too stoned to blather on about the CIA. It’s been done before.
Anyway, what I’m basically proposing is that someone reintroduce the wonders of a glutethimide & codeine mixture. Preferably in a single pill, perhaps with some sort of quirky stamp or mark…like a whale, or maybe Obama. Why glutethimide & codeine?
Although the typical intravenous
“rush” (or sudden onset) is absent, it can be
approximated when Loads are taken on an empty
stomach. Our patients reported that the intoxication
is achieved within 20 minutes after ingestion,
with the peak effect occurring after 40 minutes.
Concurrent ingestion with ethanol reportedly intensifies
this rush, suggesting an increase in the
rate of drug absorption. The Loads-intoxicated
state resembles that produced by ethanol and barbiturates
and is characterized by alternating states
of dream-like euphoria and “nodding.”
…
In the beginning of this habit, the intoxication
high reportedly persists for an average of 12 hours
but increasing tolerance reduces it to three hours.
In one patient, tolerance resulted in a habit requiring
up to 12 Loads ingestions a day.
…
The attractiveness of Loads over heroin may be
explained by the potent enzyme-inducing property
of glutethimide that converts more codeine to
morphine than the usual 10 percent after therapeutic
analgesic doses.”‘ Thus, glutethimide may
be able to transform a normally minimally abused
narcotic with high side-effect profile and low
affinity for the opiate receptor into a potent agonist.
Glutethimide also stimulates its own metabolism,
and conversion to the more potent and toxic 4-
hydroxy-glutethimide may explain the seriousness
of overdose and reported fatalities, particularly
when combined with ethanol.
We believe that this combination has a potential
for widespread abuse. Whether the knowledge of
the potentially lethal effects of Loads exerts any
curtailment of this spread remains to be seen, and
may depend on the continued availability of glutethimnide
and heroin. The medical community
should be aware of the increasing abuse potential
of glutethimide. We ourselves have difficulty understanding
the continued prescribing of glutethimide
as a hypnotic in 1982.
Indeed…I’m not sure what the exact number was (if there was one) for the increased metabolism of codeine -> morphine. I remember something really ridiculous, 75%+, but I might just be imagining it. If anyone has the numbers, please let me know.
Glutethimide is generally not prescribed at all anymore because of just how many people died from combination of glutethimide and codeine prescriptions: loads, fours & doors, etc. In the 80’s it was killing dozens of junkies all across the United States, and people started to get concerned. Now it’s really hard to find, and unless you can speak Romanian you won’t be able to order it online. Thus: to the clandestine chemists the task must go.
I’m going to cut it rather short, for the moment. Here are some related pdfs to enjoy until then.
US patent 2673205 – 3-disubstituted dioxopiperidines and the manufacture thereof
I’ll likely update & edit this soon…try to be patient. Also, be sure to hit me up on Twitter: @Nihilizo. (twitter button & other assorted nonsense to come when I’m not lazy)
PS: excuse any problems with the format & quotes. wordpress is hella gay, no joke.
Learn something new every day. Good read