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“Russia is a huge illegal drug market that Afghan traffickers want to expand”
Published: 18 January, 2010, 18:17
Edited: 14 June, 2010, 10:46
TAGS: Russia, Drugs, Afghanistan
The Afghan war has led to a boom in the state’s drugs production. Russia is on the main supply route to Europe and has more heroin addicts than the whole of Western Europe, claims Italian MEP Pino Arlacchi.
“The elimination of opium poppy never seriously entered the agenda of occupying powers of Afghanistan,” says Arlacchi.
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The Russia is plagued by serious national problems: rampant alcoholism; drug epidemic; birth defects; disfunctional families; corruption; and, crime. No surprise at all to find in Novyye Izvestiya a report that states 30% of the Russian militia is composed of psychopaths or alcoholics. Many of the Russian children that are adopted by foreigners have turned out to have psychological and behavioral problems. Russia seems to be a nation teetering on the edge of national disaster. Hovering around Russia are vultures (China, America, N. Korea) just waiting for an opportunity to tear the carcass apart. Only a strong hand, a religious revival, people's self-discipline and patriotism, can save the Russian people.
Yes, heroin is one of the most alienating drugs, apart from a cause of AIDS. In Western Europe heroin consumption fell a couple of decades ago and a great part of its consumers are dead. Then came cocaine and extasi chemical pills. The first one is mainly imported from South America while the second is mainly produced inside Europe. So, from a commercial point of view, at least chemical pills mean saving euro billions in imports. Cocaine is also considered more social inclusive than heroin, and there are thousands of cocaine addicts in Business and the Administration, while heroin addicts are pariah, becoming a kind of underhumans despised by the rest of the population.
Arlacchi cannot make any comments or have any word on the matter . His conduct as head of the UNODC in Vienna was the worst ever. He gave money to the talibans and he build the road on which they started to move opium and drugs. He even started a pleasure boat program for himself and associates with the excuse of advertising antidrug programs. Besides the money he paid as salary to have a close female associate representing UNODC in New York. He had to leave UNODC under pressure. You should not give voice to useless politicians. Drugs are a menace to humanity and we should fight them seriously and not with empty words from useless politicians.