Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Why Is the Fentanyl Crisis Terrifying the World? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. That is exactly what it is. Since the UK is no longer top dog and has been replaced by the US, they still view it as sticking it to the Anglo-world.
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  2. You have a point. Compare the Fentanyl crisis with the Opium crisis in China which lead to the devastating Opium Wars with the UK. The parallels are startling.
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  3. That is exactly what I was thinking. They simply shifted their revenge against the Anglo-world from the UK to the US.
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  4.  @GraniteInTheFace  And yet studies out of Israel prove otherwise. Why is it that they have managed to create a pill that replicated the beneficial effects of marijuana WITHOUT the addictive side effects? And yes, the fact that user CANNOT quit cold turkey proves it is psychologically addictive.
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  5. THC products are a gateway. While not everyone who uses them move on to harder drugs, almost all who use harder drugs got started with marijuana. Those that didn't usually are a result of botched prescription drug regimes.
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  6. Exactly. The Chinese have long memories and play the long game. To them, the US simply replaced the UK as the representative of the Anglo-world and so all of their grievances against the British have simply been shifted over to the US.
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  7. It essentially is already. The Chinese are using it against the US in much the same way British traders used opium against the Chinese from the 1840s to the 1860s.
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  8. Agreed. Pills should be the LAST choice, and only for those that are a clear danger to either themselves or others. If they are not at risk of harming someone, they don't need mind altering chemicals.
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  9.  @wesleapenknife1755  Nice strawman argument. Not everyone drinks Coffee. And caffeine is found in naturally in other food products like tea and chocolate so your argument there is total rubbish.
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  10.  @wesleapenknife1755  Except the CDC, FDA, and FBI statistics prove otherwise. Just because you claim something is not true doesn't mean it isn't. In this case, you have to prove a negative while I simply have to point to objectively verified data sets. Data sets you would rather pretend didn't exist.
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  11. Guns didn't create the problem. But I do agree with you about not laundering money to the cartels. Hell, the US was basically facilitating the narcotics trade by protecting Afghan poppy farmers who were using the profits to fund the Taliban and Al Qaeda!
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  12. There may be some truth to your suggestion. Look at how South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Maylasia, and Indonesia deal with drug trafficking. They don't play around.
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  13.  @marcbuisson2463  Oh, I am not saying that it isn't grown there. Only that the local authorities take it seriously and deal with it harshly.
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  14. What says it hasn't? Afghan poppy farmers were growing it for the Talban and Al Qaeda, yet the US government turned a blind eye.
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  15.  @HappyHighwayman  Alcohol and Marijuana is an apples to oranges false analogy. Nice try buddy. Now if you were to have compared it to Tobacco, then you would be onto something. But ironically, the similarities to Tobacco reveal uncomfortable truths the marijuana lobby doesn't want to talk about.
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  16. The problem is that those idiots will harm the rest of us while going through their death throes.
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  17. Compare this to the Opium Wars between the UK and China. It is as if the Chinese have taken the role of British traders and the US has assumed the role of China.
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  18. The problem is when they start causing problems for the non-users while experiencing withdraw. Have you had a drug addict going through withdraw harass you for cash for their next fix? Scary.
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  19. Indeed. The Chinese play the long game. They have simply shifted their animosity towards the Anglo-world from the UK to the US.
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  20. The fact that you immediately jumped to the race card shows you can't actually debate the merits.
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  21. Ask the Chinese how that worked out with Opium in the 1840s.
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  22. I like the cut of your jib!
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  23. The Chinese have long memories and play the long game.
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  24. Look at the Opium Wars between China and the UK and ask yourself why there seems to be a number of similarities between that crisis and the current Fentanyl crisis.
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  25.  @eddyr1041  No, it should not. If anything, government is responsible for creating the conditions that has lead to people using drugs to cope. Government does NOTHING right, not even national defense.
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