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Desperately Seeking Walter White
Asia's exploding demand for methamphetamine has left them with a problem... too few cooks and not enough ingredients. As AFP reports, strong and growing demand for drugs in Asia is driving up global production of methamphetamine, with seizures in the region tripling in five years to record levels, a UN report below shows. China has had particularly severe problems, it said. In 2008, Chinese authorities seized six tonnes of methamphetamine. That figure soared to more than 16 tonnes in 2012, accounting for about 45 percent of total methamphetamine seizures for Asia that year, the UNODC said. The drug is often trafficked long distances, as we show below, adding the routes being used by drug sellers are becoming increasingly well-trodden. As demand rises, so production has increasingly shifted to Asia with 'Walter Whites' making bases in China, Myanmar, and the Philippinnes.
Americans still spend a fortune on drugs... (over $108 billion in 2010)
h/t @conradhackett
But as AFP reports, demand is spreading...
Strong and growing demand for drugs in Asia is driving up global production of methamphetamine, with seizures in the region tripling in five years to record levels, a UN body said Tuesday.
Both the use and the production of the drug is growing in the region, in concert with the expanding economy of the world's most populous continent, leading to growing social problems and higher healthcare bills.
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"Over the years, methamphetamine seizures have been predominantly reported in East and South-East Asia, in countries such as China, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand," the Office said ahead of the report's launch in Tokyo.
Asia has long served as the world's largest market for "amphetamine-type stimulants" (ATS), the UN body says.
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Seizures of ATS-related drugs tripled to at least 36 tonnes per year in the five years to 2012, the report said.
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China has had particularly severe problems,
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Growing ATS use was accompanied by expanding regional production, with large bases seen in China, Myanmar and the Philippines, the UN body said.
The drug is often trafficked long distances, the report said, adding the routes being used by drug sellers are becoming increasingly well-trodden. Notably from Mexico, the Middle East, South and West Asia, and West Africa to Japan and other lucrative markets in East and Southeast Asia and Oceania.
The increased wealth and rise of the middle class has its drawbacks...
The continued spread of methamphetamine across Asia poses a growing challenge to justice systems and health providers in societies with large youthful populations, UNODC said.
Ironically, the things that are starting to boost living standards in Asia -- greater regional integration resulting in improved trade -- are the very things that are accelerating the spread of the drug.
"The impact of synthetic drugs, especially methamphetamine and new psychoactive substances, on the police, court, prison and health care systems of states in the region is tremendous," Jeremy Douglas, UNODC Regional Representative, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said in a prepared statement.
"This rising threat of synthetic drugs is compounded for Japan and Asia because the production epicentres of amphetamine-type stimulants and new psychoactive substances are nearby," Douglas added.
Be careful what you wish for...
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YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT
Those who do not learn from history (Opium Wars and addiction destroy China) are doomed to repeat its errors.
Ah Opium wars, I was wondering how these scumbag drug money laundering banks were going to get their gold back from China. Herodotus singing Limericks
Yuan ge hai? Yu pei mi mei ku mesan feda min.
You said it... Wait, what?
you are assuming those in control of the west ( the cia) are not interested in destroying the vast majority of the population whom they see as disposable.
you don't need a very healthy country when you can contintuously import immigrants after every periodic major war.
the only thing you need to make sure of is that your military technology is sufficient to dominate the globe.
that is the only mindset .
when you are an oligarch, your insurance policy is being filthy as fuck rich in another country while letting your upper middle class and government get entirely torched in a war.
those with real insurance (gold hoards and foreign property in just about all jurisidctions and anonymity ) don't really need to worry about the bottom 80% being anything other than slaves that work. if they are on drugs and fucked in the head, that just makes them better slaves.
Cartels maybe got into the bond market.. buying at the top.
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Meth is the Devil drug.
There are some bad drugs out there, but that one ruins lives and kills relentlessly.
Heroin is bad, Meth is worse.
correctemundo
When the Japanese invaded the Phillipines in WWII you know how they dealt with drug addicts? They announced free drugs in all the opium dens and drug houses. True to their word, there were free drugs aplenty in the local drug houses. GOOOOOOD drugs, too.
Then a few months later they walked in and shot everyone in those establishments.
Maybe that's what they're doing in Colorado.
Have to agree.
So clearly the thing to do is have .gov legalize it so it can be taxed properly and be a benefit to all society!
(Yes, I stole that from the ultra-statist HuffPo...lol)
Can you imagine 700 million chinamen on meth?
i thought they already were
That is just the air quality ... the meth concentrations are still way too low from industry ... but they are working hard to improve.
Regards,
Cooter
Dude, Asian is the preferred nomenclature. This isn't Nam, there's rules.
Dude, Japanese, Philipinos, Vietnamese Cambodians, etc are Asians. So please, what do the PC police use for people from China?
And that rug really tied the room together.
And the argument of a ground invasion in the US. Supply lines my ass. Meth lines FTW!!!
It's pretty clear that both crack cocaine and heroin cause significantly more harm to the users themselves than society, while alcohol is by far the most harmful drug, in net harm to society and users combined. Compared to alcohol, crack, and heroin, meth is relatively of little harm to society or others.
According to David Nutt's "Drug harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis" Lancet publication on relative harms concerning illegal drugs, even marijuana caused more harm to persons other than the user.
I've seen people get wise and off meth before their lives were destroyed, but compared to the crime, disease and moral degeneration of heroin use, meth in society is of little consequence... don't believe the hype.
She don't like, she don't like, she don't like ..#2 and Mary jane #1 (lucky we left off beer)
That reminds me of one of my favorite jokes...
Q: What's the difference between a bag of cocaine and a little boy?
A: Eric Clapton never let a bag of cocaine fall out a window.
Well I know something you don't know, you're gonna reap just what you sow.
Drugs are bad . . mmkay
The Mexican mafia are trading with the Chicoms, Ye Gon was busted and protected by GW Bush through Obama http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/meet-me... recently they (Mexican cartels) began export iron ore to China. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/03/economist-expl...
You can bet the Chinese are also trading heavy weapons to Mexicans.
I'm not really sure wher to post this but it is literally raining rich people in the city lately. Forget Bankers, it's everybody...
http://nypost.com/2014/05/17/lawyer-jumps-22-stories-to-his-death/
http://nypost.com/2014/05/20/jewelry-designer-jumps-to-his-death/
Must be caused by a Homopathogenic Fungus causing them to jump to their deaths.
What a waste. If they're gonna kill themselves, grab a weapon of choice and take out some scum bag banksters first!
Personally, I'd feel better if the Chinese were hooked on crack instead of meth. But that's just me.
If you are a regular reader of BKK Post over the years you have watched this trend to now every day there is a major multi kilo ice bust somewhere in the country.
On a per capita societal level probably worse than the USSA far as meth goes.
And as noted it is as destructive a garbage bath tub pharma as any around.
Well that's an outlet of inflation I didn't see coming.
Whatever happened to just chewing on coca leaves after a long walk in the hills? You know, traditional licit use.
Whenever I need some 'medicine', I click to www.drmeth.com
Damn, I just Googled 'methamphetamine in Asia' and the hits were AMAZING.
Not a word here about N Korea pumping ut meth. Maybe China is pissed off at them for flooding their cities with the death.
Hey China clean house especially that fat little runt.
Fuck Walter White....Give me Reggie Ledoux's shit anyday
Give me Librium or give me Meth.
I wonder how much Biker Crank (meth) contributes to the hideous assault and hideous warfare that we see, and don't see.
THAT'S IT!!!!
Get the Zipperheads and Chinks tweaking out all the time.....THEN we'll see some real Iwo Jima cliff diving!