Wilful Blindness, How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents Infiltrated the West Hardcover – May 21, 2021
by Sam Cooper (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Wilful-Blindness-network-tycoons-Infiltrated/dp/0888903146

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new guidance for clinicians on how and when to prescribe opioids for pain. Released Thursday, this revamps the agency's 2016 recommendations which some doctors and patients have criticized for promoting a culture of austerity around opioids.

Good points, but let's also appreciate the role of doctors
and pharmaceutical companies in this whole epidemic.
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/09/opioid-lawsuits-generate-payouts-controversy/

I don't doubt that some of the pharma executives are corporate slime and knew exactly what they were doing. Some of them probably came from the tobacco industry. However, when you are a doctor and your patient is complaining of chronic pain, what should you do? Our resident Good Doctor was an Emergency Room doctor so he didn't see patients on an ongoing basis. However, his take on the doctor/patient dynamic would be very much appreciated. Timmac, did you ever talk to colleagues who were faced with this dilemma?

There is no point of regulating Fentanyl it’s really just poison.

And fentanyl is just the beginning. Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin. There are already designer drugs that are 10 to 100 times stronger than fentanyl.

The point of regulating recreational drugs such as fentanyl is that you will take the profit motive away from the cartels and their suppliers. The problem of addiction isn't going to go away. The Greeks figured that one out 2,500 years ago. As Rob pointed out, the drugs go north from Mexico, the cash and guns go south, and the cartels get stronger each year. By taking away their cash cow, we will reduce their influence and power substantially. Sadly, as some others have pointed out, the cartels have diversified their business operations and it may be far too late to eradicate them from society.

Mexican Gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates - The Economist

Fast Facts: How Cartels Are Diversifying in Mexico - ASIS International

Added benefits: Regulating and supplying addicts with these drugs will reduce the epidemic of overdose deaths. It is also vastly cheaper than continual funding of the middle-class welfare programs known as the DEA and for-profit prisons.

Cartels in that area are battling for control. No way to predict the future. As long as the USA has an appetite for drugs, the supply will be there at other’s expense.

The cartels exist creating chaos because apparently that's what the U.S. government wants. There's no other excuse for the over half-century old "war on drugs" aka Prohibition 2.0 failed policy's continued existence. Most fentanyl deaths are because a recreational substance of choice must be bought from criminals in dubious quantity and quality instead of pre-measured doses with known strengths. Then the cartels of course expand into other lucrative businesses including prostitution, human smuggling and protection rackets, thanks to the endless supply of arms they have access to in the States.

"Arms from the States" Looks like the same weapons the Mexican Army and Navy has. Maybe direct back door sales!!

Once again, I know that's what you would like to believe, but it has nothing to do with reality.

https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2021/07/08/nunca-tendran-mejores-armas-que-el-ejercito-mexicano-radiografia-del-arsenal-del-cjng/

Cartels in that area are battling for control. No way to predict the future. As long as the USA has an appetite for drugs, the supply will be there at other’s expense.

The cartels exist creating chaos because apparently that's what the U.S. government wants. There's no other excuse for the over half-century old "war on drugs" aka Prohibition 2.0 failed policy's continued existence. Most fentanyl deaths are because a recreational substance of choice must be bought from criminals in dubious quantity and quality instead of pre-measured doses with known strengths. Then the cartels of course expand into other lucrative businesses including prostitution, human smuggling and protection rackets, thanks to the endless supply of arms they have access to in the States.

"Arms from the States" Looks like the same weapons the Mexican Army and Navy has. Maybe direct back door sales!!

Cartels in that area are battling for control. No way to predict the future. As long as the USA has an appetite for drugs, the supply will be there at other’s expense.

The cartels exist creating chaos because apparently that's what the U.S. government wants. There's no other excuse for the over half-century old "war on drugs" aka Prohibition 2.0 failed policy's continued existence. Most fentanyl deaths are because a recreational substance of choice must be bought from criminals in dubious quantity and quality instead of pre-measured doses with known strengths. Then the cartels of course expand into other lucrative businesses including prostitution, human smuggling and protection rackets, thanks to the endless supply of arms they have access to in the States.

Cartels in that area are battling for control. No way to predict the future. As long as the USA has an appetite for drugs, the supply will be there at other’s expense.

“Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.” -- attributed to 19th century Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz

Living in a tourist town, that is meant as a positive statement.

Yesterday, on our way back from the dog exercise, we walked by, and spoke to two different dog owners walking their dogs. We hadn't seen them since last season and they were pleased to see us and meet our new girl, now 11 months.

Today, we had breakfast at Las Adeitas, great place, and when we got there, no one else was there. COOL! By the time we finished, there were 5 tables filled. We tried to kind of slink out, but still had a table of 7 and a table of 2 say, "Those are the paddlers" We smiled, and twizzled our fingers.

Welcome back, we need you here!

Acapulco got their ass kicked. May they recover sooner than later.