Drought Driving Me Crazy

The brown river is running very dry down here

So if you are in the game you will know there has been a major drought on for the last few months which has driven up the price of smack as well as driving down the quality. If you buy a deal today you're more likely to end up jabbing benzos, paracetamol, barbs or even ketamine! That is if the deal does contain anything of a pharmaceutical nature and not just pure shit e.g milk powder, baby formula, glucose, citric and they are only the harmless additives. I have not known it to be so bad for purity and have been one of the many to provide clean piss tests on more than one occasion in the last few months. Now you might be one of these people who think "well good no smack less junkies and less crime" well it doesn't work that way. If your a smack head who thieves to fund their habit then they are going to have to work at least twice as hard to get enough money to stop rattling. If you spend £50 a day and it ends up being all shit you're not just going to think "oh well never mind I will just sit here ill until tomorrow" no you will end up finding more money and buying more "smack" until you get something to stop the sickness. So unfortunately for the straights who get affected by crime related to heroin use (shop lifting, burglary, theft) then there will be more not less.

Now why has this drought come around? I have heard a number of theories which started off with a major drug bust in London of £100 million + worth of gear found in a boot of a car and a major gang taken off the street. But as we all know as one dealer goes down another one takes their place and one bust in London should not dry out most of the country. I have heard that its dry out west, up north in Manchester and even Liverpool where a lot of the smack comes into this country.

The war in Afghanistan was another reason. Remember Tony Blair giving this as one reason to go to war over there? That country produces 90% of the worlds smack and they were going to stop it all at the source. Well lets have a short history lesson about the Stan and its opium production.
-Soviet Union invades in 78.
-USA sees this as a way of sucking them into their own Vietnam war and backs the rebels and Islamic fundamentalists. To help fund the guerrilla war effort and also demoralise the young conscript Soviet army they come up with the idea of growing opium. As well as getting the money from this cash crop to fund the war and getting the invading army hooked on smack it was also one of the few crops that earns the poorest people in that part of the world any money.
-After the war is over the opium keeps coming and the rest of the world is basically flooded with it. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA saw this as a nice little earner just like the arms one way, coke the other secret flights they did in the 80's with the contras in South America.
-The Taliban come to power and see the drug as un-Islamic and actually ban the growing of the crop. Opium production drops dramatically.
-9-11 happens and then the USA, UK invade the Stan once again to kick the Taliban's ass and stop the evil terrorists as well as the evil drug trade that keeps most of the country alive.
-Ummm whats this? Opium production since the "War on Terror" actually increases year on year with record breaking crops and once again cheap smack is hitting the streets of the UK.

In fact this year the Stan had another bumper crop of Opium and the UK, USA are not in fact even trying to stop the planting, growing and exportation of the crop as
a) Most of the country are involved in either growing or trading in it and they are trying to get the local population on side so taking away their livelihood will only drive young men into working for the Taliban.
b) The CIA, MI5, ISI and other "secret service" intelligence organisations who are involved in dodgy deeds that they often have to fund themselves "off book" so to speak are probably involved up to their necks in the trade themselves and why would they want to kill a golden goose? If you don't believe me about the CIA and drugs just do a Google search and read one of the million articles available.

So if the Stan has had another bumper crop what the fuck is going on and why is there no gear on the streets? Well a BBC news report I saw the other day actually gave a couple of reasons.

1. The increasing middle class of China and Russia means that the markets for smack and other illegal drugs is growing. As these 2 countries are closer to the Stan it seems that a lot of the drug is going north to Russia and east to China rather than to the west through Iran, Turkey, Kosovo, Italy and then UK.

2. There seems to be some disruption of the trade going on by the authorities in Turkey. The main 2 groups who trade smack in the UK are the Turks and the Pakistanis and they both have their own links, routes into the country and sources etc. As most of the drug comes through Turkey on its way here then that's going to be a killer.

So there you have the reason. We are not nicking more dealers and we are not stopping the evil terrorists from growing it out in the Stan. The drugs are out there but just not coming our way at the moment. Hopefully the Turks will sort their shit out and it will get better quickly. No-one wants to have their house or car robbed and no-one wants to bang up crushed up Nurofen and get blood clots and no hit. So its in all our interests that the smack starts coming back.

Remember a heroin addict is not very likely at all to commit a violent act to get money to pay for their habit as that's usually done by desperate crack heads and also don't forget all those piss heads stumbling out the pub at closing time. They do not hang out on street corners giving you grief as you walk to the shops and they do not want any trouble all they want is to get their money the easiest way how and once they have it they sit at home and sleep. I will leave the debate about prescribing heroin to addicts for another day and I am not condoning any sort of criminal behaviour that affects others. However as we do not prescribe heroin to addicts and there are a hell of a lot of addicts out there this means that they will be robbing to pay for it. So a drought that reduces the market may hopefully reduce habits in the long run but it will mean people commit twice as much crime as they need twice as much money to buy their medicine.

And before anyone shouts at me I work for my living and my habit and I would recommend any junkie who can do the same. It reduces the amount of time you spend at home booting and it takes your mind off the shit that daily life usually is.