[PEN-L:30574] Heroin supplies increase

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since the liberation of Aghanistan from the fundamentalist Taliban regime,
the BBC reports that the supply of heroin has increased by 1400%. Most of
this goes to western Europe.

The advantage of this is that the proletarian youth of England will be more
likely to become dependent on heroin than crack cocaine, and this is less
associated with violence. But there could be dangers of fatal overdoses if
users suddenly get supplies of much greater potency for the same price, in
a poorly regulated market.

Really the unintended consequences of liberal economics and politics are
rather  poorly analysed.

Chris Burford

London