USA, The Greatest NarcoticsMonger
“There must be a threat; A threat as great as possible … A defensive stance against this threat is necessary to raise a spirit of war within the people … a spirit that motivates governments … a defense that is motivated by other impetusand policies … This threat must be toward other countries; Especially the Third-Worlders or even a city of theirs… In any case, the war against this threat must be planned in such a way that makes us the ultimate winner … that makes a brilliant track record for future operations … we need the media to propagate, An organized war of propaganda...”
These statements were in fact the same as America’s secret policies to start another world war, which was ostensibly against narcotics and drug; The war that paved the way for the next political, military and social activities and operations in the USA.
After the decision of the American think tank to deal with drug, George W. Bush adopted various strategies and policies; Regular and gradual manipulation of drug use statistics was one of these methods. A few weeks before the plan was implemented, statistics showed that from 1985 to 1988, drug use had dropped by 37 percent and the cultivars had negative growth. So the world did not need American help at all! For example, William Bennett, Czar of the first War on drugs, announced that cocaine use had increased dramatically since 1985, almost doubling to previous statistics. Consumption of drug has been declining since 1989, falling to 24 percent in the third quarter of the year, according to government statistics, before the announcement of the War on Drugs.
In fact, the War on Drugs was merely a cover for intervening and seizing the consumer markets of the target communities. After the plan was implemented, some countries, such as Panama, Colombia, and Bolivia, went into social warfare, and some, such as Thailand, could not resist the pressure of American businessmen and eventually ceded their markets to them. One of these consumer markets was the East Asian Cigarette and Tobacco Market.
In September 1989, Thailand called on international organizations to lift sanctions on this country; But the United States has said that lifting sanctions is possible only if Thailand lifts restrictions on US tobacco imports. Similar actions led to the maximum distribution of American cigarettes in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. This inflicted great human losses on these communities; Also during the 1980s, the value of tobacco doubled.
The American War on Drugs, or rather the same Drug Trade Operation in the world, had many critics; American Heart Association, American Cancer Society and American Lung Association, etc. All of these organizations condemned the Advertising of cigarettes in countries under US pressure. Ethan Neidelmann in the journal Science says that the harms of legal narcotics like tobacco are much greater than those of illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin; That illicit drugs and narcotics mostly affect the consumer him/herself, while legal forms seriously affect those around the consumer. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, about 3,800 non-smokers die each year from lung cancer caused by inhaling secondhand smoke. Tobacco smoke is also amongst the most dangerous carcinogens. A University of California statistician cites inhaling secondhand smoke as the third leading cause of controllable deaths after smoking and alcohol consumption.
The Drug and Narcotics trade and its turnover plays an important role in the US economy, which ultimately makes it now the world’s largest Narcotics Monger. Drug trafficking earned about $12,500 in 1987, but has now become the most lucrative business in the world, with net worth of $ 300 million.
References:
- Chomsky, N. (2006). Deterring democracy. London: Vintage.
- Garoudy, R. (2001). Why Anti-Americanism? (1085653556 823978708 J. Yaareh, Trans.). Tehran: Political Ideological Organization of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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