Insite is North America’s first legal supervised injection site. Painkiller: Inside the Opioid Crisis, 2018
‘People are dying of drug overdoses in unprecedented numbers … We have contamination of the illegal drug supply with a drug called Fentanyl.’ ibid. Dr Daly, Vancouver
‘The war on drugs has been a war on people.’ ibid. Dr Morhaim
One in five people prescribed an opioid will become a long-term user within ten days. ibid. caption
‘In one day alone at peak time I responded to twenty-two separate overdoses in one shift.’ ibid. paramedic
‘The number of people who are dying in British Columbia alone are 100 die a month, and in the worst months more like 150. It’s a terrible crisis for young people in the prime of their lives.’ ibid. Dr Wood, director BC Centre on Substance Use
For decades millions of people have come here in search of the American dream but for many that dream is quickly disappearing. Thousands of people around the state are losing their jobs every day … Our experts are going to give you everything you need. You can make a $1,000 in an hour … Masters of the trade are going to reveal to you their secrets. How to Make Money Selling Drugs, 2012
Marijuana: it’s the most profitable farmed product in the country. ibid.
Now that you’ve got some customers you’re going to need some product. Where do you get it? Ask a cop. ibid.
If you don’t end up getting killed by rivals or hooked on your own product, the cops are going to pick you up eventually. In today’s drug market, you’re risking your life for less than minimum wage. It’s not worth it. ibid.
Consider an exit strategy. ibid.
90% of those locked up under the Rockefeller Drug Laws are African American and Latino. ibid.
To be a big time player you need to get committed. It’s time to start building a business. A K is a kilo of cocaine; a single kilo can run you about $20,000. ibid.
You’re going to want some new options on your vehicle. ibid.
The trick to becoming a kingpin in any industry is innovation. ibid.
You’re almost ready for the top level – running a drug cartel. ibid.
Secret Level: New Player: US Government … All you need is a drugs war. ibid.
Richard Nixon would pick up where Harry Anslinger left off. Nixon used drug police as a weapon to move against those he thought of as his political enemies … The Reagan administration stepped up the rhetoric. ibid.
1986 Federal drug war budget: $2.9 billion. ibid.
‘Chemical warfare against the youth of this nation.’ ibid. politician
2012: 50,000 SWAT raids a year. ibid.
2012 Federal drug war budget: $25.2 billion. ibid.
You’ll be so used to killing, nothing will phase you any more. ibid.
Managing Your Drug Cartel: To run a global company, you need operatives all over the world. ibid.
In 1966 [Alexander] Shulgin quit his job as a chemist for Dow Chemical to devote himself entirely to the study of psychoactive drugs … Dirty Pictures, 2010
‘Sulgin personally tested hundreds of drugs.’ ibid. news
‘Beyond the therapist’s office it becomes wildly popular.’ ibid. documentary
‘I see psychedelics as spiritual tools.’ ibid. Ann Shulgin
‘Could one stay in a state of bliss for the rest of his life?’ ibid. Alexander
A few years ago a drug came on the scene in Florida called Flakka. People began comparing its arrival to a zombie outbreak or even a biblical apocalypse because of the amount of viral videos and sensationalist news reports. Zombie Drug: The Truth About Flakka, Vice 2018
Flakka is a man-made drug similar to bath salts … to mimic the effects of cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA or ecstasy. Flakka can be ingested by sniffing, snorting, smoking or injection. ibid.
We’ve now entered an era of synthetic drugs. ibid.
‘Everybody’s selling it. They wanna suck on them balloons, bro. They just wanna get on it, bruv. Everybody fucking sucks it, bruv.’ Inside the Laughing Gas Black Market: High Society s1e2, dealer, Vice 2017
No-one takes drugs quite like the British … The UK has one of the world’s most excessive drug habits. ibid.
The British use nitrous oxide more than any other country in the world. And it recently became the second must popular drug in the UK. The media quickly became obsessed with it. ibid.
Even the police tried to get a piece of the action [ebay]. ibid.
Changing the law hasn’t affected the demand. ibid.
Welcome to the United States of Addiction: we want everything big, we want everything now, and we don’t want to work for it. Prescription Thugs, Netflix 2015
People were dying from prescription drugs ... Doctors are starting to look like drug pushers; and if they are the dealers, what does that make us? ibid.
We [US] consume 75% of the world’s drugs. ibid.
Are we just a nation of prescription thugs? ibid.
Mad Dog’s [Mike Bell] addiction began in wrestling. ibid.
‘These doctors are profiting from keeping you sick.’ ibid. addiction counsellor
One in every ten Americans are on anti-depressants. ibid.
Medellin, Colombia 1982: Pablo Escobar is the head of the most powerful, violent and feared organisation in the world. The Medellin Cartelis raking in over $2 billion a month. Those Escobar can’t bribe he kills. Drug Lords s1e1: Pablo Escobar
They referred to the Bahamas as their trampoline into the US. ibid.
By the early 1980s Medellin, Colombia, is the cocaine capital of the world. ibid.
He sends his Sicarios out to corrupt a nation. ibid.
One of the bloodiest decades in Colombian history. ibid.
Escobar’s reign of terror continues to escalate. ibid.
Escobar only gets five years in jail. And he has even more demands … Pablo even chooses his guards and inmates. ibid.
Escobar escapes capture but his time is running out. ibid.
December 1993 Cali, home of the new kings of Coke … The most powerful cartel in Colombia supplying 90% of the country’s biggest export: cocaine. Drug Lords s1e2: The Cali Cartel
‘The biggest criminals in the world.’ ibid.
‘Chepe used to send 20 kilograms in suitcases carried by passengers.’ ibid. insider