Drug Abuse: Narcotics Trafficking and Opium Poppy Harvests (1969)

[DrakeDorosh]

Good chance to learn a little Dutch. I really like their 60s attitude about reforming addicts instead of jailing them. Had ibogaine been discovered in 1969 I am confident many lives could have been saved. Too bad the punitive attitude prevailed. Now ibogaine is illegal because of its psychotropic properties. It doesn't have a patentable chemistry and despite great promise as an addiction breaking treatment it is unlikely government or industry will pioneer any effort.

[tdzheng]

funny that in history, drug addiction brought down an old empire that continued for 2 millennia.

opium brought a crushing blow to china economically and militarily, lol think of those soldiers fighting the brits while being high xD

[534terrorist]

the bulgarian subs suck... If you can't translate something just don't try to...

[MsKittE]

Hehe the customs guy in the drug vault looks totally stoned

[CuteCatFaith]

The original French Connection was set up by the US govt to keep out French Communists who were for workers' rights in 1930. I was looking for info on the great book YOU CAN'T WIN and found this. Opium is sold legally in France, pure powder. Thanks for this.  Very interesting.

[paulcampamasantclime]

my inglis is perfect

[tt247jer]

from 2:43 it's Thailand not China hehe... just a quick note

[ZeroSixtyFive]

... and in the late 80's, early 90's the CIA was the main drug trafficing importer to the America.

[TheGentileMen]

@ZeroSixtyFive, They still are!.....the so called "war on drugs"..lol.

[IceManLikeGervin]

Very interesting.

[firefox8192]

CIA ,FBI ,IRS, NASA, all british corperations.unconstitutional

[MethaneMcGuiness]

@firefox8192 so is the USA.