![]() ![]() To look at just one step in the production chain, one of the perennial problems of the queen or kingpin has been importing the product. That sections of the government could then have complicity with an entity like a domestic drug gangster for its own ends became not just the province of loony conspiracy pamphleteers.Ĭertainly more than a handful of a Crip or Blood shotcaller found out, just as Breaking Bad’s mild-mannered yet ruthless meth kingpin Walter White did, that in the words of Notorious B.I.G., with mo’ money comes mo’ problems. Sources like Alfred McCoy’s 1972 book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia recounted the CIA’s involvement, among other enterprises, with corrupt foreign generals smuggling heroin out of the Golden Triangle. There have been revelations like the Senate’s Church Committee some 44 years ago which brought to light intelligence agencies engaged in covert actions overseas. Tied to this has been a significant shift in the public’s perceptions of the machinations of its government. ![]() At times also the pawn in a bigger context. The drug lord is both vaunted anti-hero and destroyer of their community. The portrayal of drugs and the drug game has had various permutations over the years in novels, films and other media. PCP gave way to crack, and the on-come of the nouveau riche drug lord, and new visions of drugs and policing on-screen, given the “rock” could be cooked up on a stove from powdered coke and sold for a relatively high profit. Times, “We may be finding that in some blacks when it is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up as fast as they do in normal people.” The chokehold was eventually banned. As then Police Chief Daryl Gates horrifically claimed in a 1982 interview in the L.A. This over-bearing tactic was more often used on a black suspect, be they on angel dust or not. In reality during that period, the LAPD used the pretext of PCP to use the at-times-fatal chokehold, their baton pressed against the carotid artery in your neck. In the TV movie, drug-lords-to-be high schoolers make PCP in their chemistry lab (Walter White’s advanced students?) and Helen Hunt’s character dove out a second story window high on the stuff. The drug did affect your perceptions, often detrimentally efforts to combat its usage produced public service ad campaigns as well as such results as a too-earnest ABC Afterschool Special, Desperate Lives, in the early ‘80s. ![]() While the film was a hoot, it was a fact that in the 1970s there were marijuana smokers who did flip out because the weed they smoked had been laced-sometimes without their knowledge-with phencyclidine, PCP, angel dust. “King Heroin”, co-written and performed by James Brownġ936’s Reefer Madness luridly warned teenagers that smoking weed would result in hallucinations, bad morals and even loosing you mind. ![]()
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