Drug "War" Pics

[Lefty]

Just thought these were interesting.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...ug_report.html

[buteo]

def were interesting

[Danko]

makes you want to go to Mexico, huh...

[eatyualive]

the war on drugs makes more people die and causes more people to grow drugs. it does the opposite of what its intended use was. or was that its intended use? one might say that the war on drugs was essential to make the drug market flourish.

[sagiboy]

what comes around goes around.
war brings only war.

[piggy69]

Terribly sad. Its all about the dollar bills. Life seems to be worthless to some.

[Doctor D]

Those photos of the Afghani family of Islam Beg were in an MSNBC story on opium addiction in Afghanistan. Pretty sad story. It basically talks of how opium enters a village like a virus and spreads from house to house, until nearly the entire community is hooked and living in squalor. What to do in that situation? What causes greater harm, the drug war on opium and heroin, or the physical cost of opium / heroin being (de facto) legal in lawless villages like those in Afghanistan? I don't think there are any simple answers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32317823/ns/health-addictions/

[bugs]

Quite a collection of pics. Maybe just a little bit biased?

The comments were the most interesting part. From the ignorant evil of "Doug" saying that all users and their families should be executed, to the absurd idea that because something is "natural" it won't do harm. So a nice brew of Jimson weed and foxglove is OK?

And of course,the consistent use of the singular in referring to "DRUGS."

It was encouraging that the majority of posters agree that the war on drugs should end. If only the politicians had the brains and balls to do what's right.

[sticky.mycelium]

dude i want that feild of pot that soldier and his dog were sitting next to damnit! it looked amazing

and those huge sheets of meth almost made me puke. giant shards of death!

[Danko]

Originally Posted by sticky.mycelium

dude i want that feild of pot that soldier and his dog were sitting next to damnit! it looked amazing

and those huge sheets of meth almost made me puke. giant shards of death!

That was some fine looking cannabis. Looks like that soldier was enjoying the view also. Wish that was in my backyard.

[Faaip De Oaid]

Originally Posted by eatyualive

the war on drugs makes more people die and causes more people to grow drugs. it does the opposite of what its intended use was. or was that its intended use? one might say that the war on drugs was essential to make the drug market flourish.

maybe its actually a conspiracy, and the authorities want so many people to throw away their lives to control the population, or some other sinister purpose. maybe every picture on that link is just part of the plan

[iShroom]

Wow, looks like the drug war is going well UN... lots of casualties, no end in sight and a multi-billion dollar business that used the war as a catalyst to boost profits through greed.

Severed heads, people being shot to death, mass murders in Mexico, and over what? a fucking plant 1/2 (or more) of the time. Makes me want to do this ... Cant touch the bud from Mexico because it might have Jose's dick cheese splattered all over it after he gets his head blown off for asking for "water to drink"... thanks, now theres more reason to grow my own.

You can't win a war on something you can't control, especially something we don't fully understand. I say that in relation to all drugs of course.


The entire world needs to change the agenda on drug control. Possibly creating a more intense focus on certain "hard" drugs and loosening the restrictions on others. Is there a scientist in the house?

[CoyoteMesc]

chicks with guns are hot. Is it wrong of me that the badge beside it doesnt even
ruin it for me...

[August West]

the very idea that a 'war on drugs' can be won or lost is absurd.
it's ambiguous and has no basis in reality - it's 'newspeak'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

'The basic idea behind Newspeak is to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies (pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, goodthink and crimethink) which reinforce the total dominance of the State.'

there are many things about the presentation of this youtube material which bother me, but it's a nice, tidy cache of hick's genious:

[ishkaboo]

I shed a tear when I admit that cash rules everything around me.

These times need to end. People need to grow, together. Life shouldn't be a competition.

[Raziel]

Very fucked up.

[DarkLestor]

intense pictures.

i always wonder how i might find out when and where they will be burning tons of MJ

just hope for a nice breeze....

[zodd]

powerfull photography. it made me sad. its still making me sad. the war on drugs is a joke it only serves to legitimise governments who otherwise would look flimsy and pointless. what goods is a government without some one to enforce, so they make there target and create an arena to fire at them.

come one come all and see your government kill the beast that is drug abuse.

our drug laws have a lot to answer for. all these victims. who would have otherwise not have been exposed to the underground market created by drug laws. because it is the market that is the real monster and the governments that perpetuate them, not the users or the drugs. the market. and the legitimised cartels are the monsters who we should be making legislation to stop them from holding on to there market (ie illegal drugs).

For our governments to stop being the instigators of all of this suffering they need to take back what they have allowed cartels the exclusive rights to. And kill the illeagal market by owning the drugs. Then we the tax paying peole will own the drugs and have nothing to fear from a black market.

Im talking in circles now. Any way thanks for the link dude im going to forwarded it on if that’s cool

[Oblivion]

I only saw what men without principals caused. Not what drugs caused. I have never had the urge to give my kids drugs. Then again, I have principals. Far more destruction comes from war and the lust for power. Drugs are merely a tool for tyrants and politicians to carry out their plans for human tragedy under the guise of benevolence.

[friedrice]

wow some of that was really disturbing. All the more reason to make homemade drugs and stop supporting this kind of activity.

[Aislyn Wendell]

Originally Posted by sagiboy

what comes around goes around.
war brings only war.

Well said.

Thanks for sharing. Really sad stuff.

I hate the mentality of "this isn't working so do more of the same", instead of "this isn't working so do something different."

[Sidestreet Getaway]

I noticed a couple of things:

1) The language of the captions. Everyone using in the pictures is referred to with the dehumanizing term, "addict." The word is repeated ad nauseum throughout the series.

2) Several of the responders pointed this out: where are the "first world" users? America is the destination of a lot of this product... what, people are only squatting in abandoned buildings smoking crank in developing countries? Several of them were pretty bitter about this glaring omission.

3) Most of the responders called for an end to prohibition. Awesome!