Thursday, July 21, 2016
K2 profits may fund terrorism
From PIX11:
K2 traffickers import chemicals that are mixed in China, mostly receiving them in the mail, and then spray the chemicals on dried leaves and package the product in colorful bags. The fake pot, which is then rolled in paper and smoked, has been sold for years over the counter in tobacco shops and bodegas.
The profits are enormous, and that’s remained a worry for the federal government, which acknowledges that millions of dollars have been wired overseas, possibly to pay for terror training and plots.
“It’s a concern that money from some of these organizations has gone back to countries in conflict,” the DEA’s Hunt told PIX11. “Yemen. Jordan. Syria. So, anytime we see money going back to these countries, it’s a concern for law enforcement, that it could be going to fund terrorism.”
19 comments:
Another item missing from this article is how most drug screenings do not test for many of these "synthetic" drugs.
There is significant use among civil service workers who like to escape reality smoking this garbage, and not get caught.
Ponder that thought the next time your bus driver looks out of sorts.
Why must it always be about the money?
Would this situation be acceptable if the moneys were to reman in the United States, be taxed significantly, and not funding terrorism ?
No mention of the lives and families destroyed, and all of the associated local crime...
The War on Drugs: endorsed by dealers, kingpins, and prison contractors worldwide for protecting their profits.
This is why we need to make drugs locally.
"May" fund? Speculation and assumption passing as journalism
What about LLC's donating to superpacs and 501 c 4's? What about unoccupied million dollar luxury apartments and pied-e-terres?
The only reason this is being focused on MAY be that this outbreak of addicts is happening in a gentrifying area. Somehow, realtors neglected to tell these hipshits that there was a methadone clinic nearby their 1500 a month closet apartment or 2500 one bedroom.
YEAH, "LETS MAKE DRUGS LOCALLY" LIKE IN OUR GARAGES. MAYBE TERRORISM WILL DIE.
WHAT AN ASSININE ARGUMENT !!
50000 heroin DEATHS per year
that dont count emergency room visits that were to over 125000 in 2010
God only knows what it is now
but marijuana is not a gateway drug
Anonymous said...
This is why we need to make drugs locally.
yes
more meth labs!
If we don't make our drugs locally then how will we get drugs without supporting terrorism?
Legalize it,
don't criticize it.....
De herb, not de K2....
Go to any small town in the rural South...North/Central Mississippi for example.
The local convenience store is owned by Yemeni and is the go-to place to buy drugs. Conveniently.
Some of you are being deliberately obtuse.
Meth labs exist because profits are to be made even from shoddily making an illegal drug.
How about you take a prescription from a health clinic down to a pharmacy, get a properly made $15 generic drug, and tune out in your own home without bothering anyone until your heart stops or you choke on your own vomit, neither of which I care about as long as you're no longer stealing or committing violence obtaining the money to get a contraband product. "50000 heroin DEATHS per year"? Sounds like first world overpopulation taking care of itself.
Anonymous said...
"Some of you are being deliberately obtuse...
... Sounds like first world overpopulation taking care of itself."
The problem is that to many of these "recreational users" cannot function productively or effectively in a modern civilized society.
Their employment is sporadic, and therefor ride the endless revolving door of entitlements.
The entitlements are never enough, so these miscreants turn to scams and crime. We cannot dispute that many turn to "low-level" distribution to support a habit. This most often is directly linked to gangs, turf wars and violence. How is the South Side of Chicago doing?
There is much talk and some action regarding the release of many of these "non-violent" "low-level" offenders with no skills beyond surviving in prison. I wonder how that will turn out.
There is no help to overpopulation since too many continue to breed in search of more free government benefits. This just continues the ever declining cycle.
Ironically the many overdose deaths are greatly overshadowed by costs We the People, the true working class, must pay for the social benefits, welfare, unemployment, food stamps, medicaid, section eight housing, homeless housing/sheltering, social services, etc...
Another commodity that must have some hidden roots in FLOOSHING. If it's Chinese, it comes through Flushing...be it illegal human trafficking, gambling, prostitution.
So tell me that Asians saved Flushing from the "Blacks", as a one time state assemblyman had said.
We tolerate Asian covert illegal activity because we do not want "Blacks" in Flushing. This is insidious social engineering at its most disgusting implementation. In fact...does not this kind of move the "minorities" out of the nabes around NYC to be replaced by hipsters, yuppies, and "the right" new immigrants?
YOU BETCHA!
Maybe Trump is right, after all. "Let's make America great again"!
Liberalism has put the U.S.A.on the skids.
Maybe the pedulum has to swing to the right for course correction.
That compund used was disovered by a european chemist. These drugs are manufactured in the good ol usa!
It makes no sense buying this garbage when you can order off craiglist. Ny should just crash the mj market by making it cheap n legal. Id rather have some stoners walking around than someone on a k2 like substance. Walking zombies who cant afford the real thing or some junkie mixing it up with methedone, who knows. This drug is worse than pcp.
Stiffer sentence is needed, close these shops down.
Go after tge users too!
Going after the "Johns" who frequent prostitutes works wonders.
Apply the same strategy here.
If someone makes a product people want to buy then shouldn't it be legal?
That's capitalism. Why should we control what other people do with their lives?
>Money is going to China
>which means it's going to be used by terrorists in the Middle East
The DEA really needs to brush up on their geography. Unless this is more of their typical scaremongering to convince people to make even more laws and give up even more freedom.
WTF do your rants about laws forbidding freedom have to do with this?
Maybe YOU have been sampling too much of this product yourself!
Get a clue. Clear your head. This is DEADLY stuff!
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