Spinoza Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 IMHO, most human troubles arise when somebody takes a basically good idea but then runs it into the ground because they can't or won't see when it has ceased being a good idea. Michael I say most troubles arise when humans trying to reshape the external reality in order to satisfy the internal desire for conflict resolutions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 Approximately 100 metric tons of coca leaves are imported to the Stepan Company each year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan...) under "special permission" from the DEA. Keep all this in mind when you consider the total fraud of the current "War on Drugs" and how young African American men are given ten-year prison sentences for pot possession while one of the largest corporations in America is actually importing leaves that are used to manufacture cocaine. Once the coca leaves are imported into the USA under these special permissions from the DEA, the cocaine is extracted out of the coca leaves. Coca-Cola doesn't use the cocaine, you see. There is no cocaine in Coca-Cola today. This brings up an obvious question: Where does all the white powder cocaine go if not to Coca-Cola? It turns out that this cocaine is sold to a St. Louis company called Mallinckrodt Incorporated. Mallinckrodt receives not only all the cocaine from the Coca-Cola imports, but also imports opium from India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallin...). In addition, this company also buys THC extracted from marijuana grown in the United States. So much for the War on Drugs, huh? It turns out if you buddy up to the DEA and federal regulators, you can make all the cocaine you want while buying opium and marijuana by the ton -- as long as you're a powerful corporation with ties to Coca-Cola and other wealthy organizations. It's a reasonable question to wonder where all this cocaine and opium ends up going after it arrives at Mallinckrodt. The official explanation is that it's for "medical use." But let's do the math on this and see if that explanation holds water. According to various websites that are readily found in any search engine, it takes roughly 300 grams of coca leaves to produce 1 gram of refined cocaine. This means that 100 metric tons of coca leaves (100 x 1000 kilograms, or 100,000 kilograms) can produce roughly 333 kilos of cocaine each year. So it is not an absolute rule. Spinoza thats quite deep - but what is your view in terms of action? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinoza Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 I'll be bigger then the Beatles if I know that. (sigh) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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