{"id":69,"date":"2002-06-17T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2002-06-17T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2002-06-17T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2002-06-17T14:45:13","slug":"new-drug-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/06\/new-drug-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"New drug ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this TV ad several times now, and it galls me every time: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theantidrug.com\/drugs_terror\/index.html\">Drug money supports terror. If you buy drugs you might too.<\/a>&#8221; To which the obvious rejoinder is: So legalise them already.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>[Tue, Jun 18 2002 &#8211; 12:16] Felix<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.felixsalmon.com\">www<\/a>) (<a href=\"mailto:fsalmon@nyc.rr.com\">email<\/a>) The website actually makes the reasoning explicit, more or less: this is from their &#8220;terror quiz&#8221;, which as far as I can make out, says that ecstasy supports terrorism simply because it is illegal. What the paragraph about heroin and Colombia has to do with Ecstasy, I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>What about Ecstasy? It&#8217;s about P.L.U.R. (peace, love, unity and respect &#8211; a rave term), after all, not terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The people who take Ecstasy at a rave are most likely supporting:<\/p>\n<p>-a sophisticated European operation<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of Ecstasy smuggled into the U.S. is produced in Europe &#8212; 80% of the Ecstasy seized in the U.S. comes from the Netherlands alone. But for Dutch drug producers, ecstasy is not the Love Drug. It&#8217;s the Money Drug, and it&#8217;s impossible to ship it from the Netherlands to ravers in the U. S. and keep your hands clean.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S. it is illegal contraband and it can&#8217;t help but become involved, directly or indirectly, in all the bad stuff associated with drug smuggling &#8212; money laundering, document forging, bribery of officials and other corruption.<\/p>\n<p>For example, two days before the September 11th attacks, the DEA seized 53 kilos of Afghan heroin in New York &#8212; heroin that was being distributed by Colombians. At least one former member of the Colombian government has reported that Afghan citizens began visiting Colombia in the early 1990s, to teach drug traffickers there how to cultivate the opium poppy, the source for heroin. (Sources: Casteel and Serrano, narcotranscript) <!-- comment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this TV ad several times now, and it galls me every time: &#8220;Drug money supports terror. If you buy drugs you might too.&#8221; To which the obvious rejoinder is: So legalise them already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-economics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-17","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}