Legalität als letzter Ausweg: Machen wir Frieden mit den Drogen - Feuilleton. Vor vierzig Jahren ging los, was Richard Nixon, damals Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten, den „Krieg gegen die Drogen“ nannte - und weil man ein Pfund Heroin nicht erschießen kann, richteten sich die Kampfhandlungen gegen all die Menschen, die mit den Drogen in Berührung kamen: gegen jene, die diese Drogen nahmen, vor allem die Süchtigen in den Slums der großen Städte; gegen alle, die mit den Drogen handelten, gegen die kleinen Dealer und die großen Händler; gegen die Schmuggler, die Kuriere, die Produzenten. Gegen die Leute, die Crystal Meth kochten, gegen die Chemiker, die Rohopium zu Heroin veredelten. Gegen die Mohnpflanzer in Afghanistan und gegen die Cocabauern im südamerikanischen Hochland. Und wenn es schon sinnlos war, auf Drogen zu schießen, so konnte man doch die Mohnfelder und Cocaplantagen aus der Luft zerstören, mit Gift, mit Bomben, mit schwerem militärischem Gerät. Autor: Harald Staun, Redakteur im Feuilleton der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung in Berlin.
Folgen: US allegedly allowed cocaine trafficking. U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court. The allegations are part of the defense of Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges in Chicago. He is also a top lieutenant of drug kingpin Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman and the son of Ismael "Mayo" Zambada-Garcia, believed to be the brains behind the Sinaloa cartel. The case could prove to be a bombshell on par with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Operation Fast and Furious," except that instead of U.S. guns being allowed to walk across the border, the Sinaloa cartel was allowed to bring drugs into the United States.
Zambada-Niebla claims he was permitted to smuggle drugs from 2004 until his arrest in 2009. "DEA agents (then) told Loya-Castro to tell Mr. Documents: Feds allegedly allowed Sinaloa cartel to move cocaine into U.S. for information. U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court.
The allegations are part of the defense of Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges in Chicago. He is also a top lieutenant of drug kingpin Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman and the son of Ismael "Mayo" Zambada-Garcia, believed to be the brains behind the Sinaloa cartel. The case could prove to be a bombshell on par with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Operation Fast and Furious," except that instead of U.S. guns being allowed to walk across the border, the Sinaloa cartel was allowed to bring drugs into the United States. Zambada-Niebla claims he was permitted to smuggle drugs from 2004 until his arrest in 2009. "DEA agents (then) told Loya-Castro to tell Mr. The narcosphere. Drugs and Discovery: An Early Modern Perspective, Part II | Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.
Editor’s Note: Last week historian Matthew Crawford argued against the overdetermined notions of “discovery” and “invention,” and called instead for a palimpsestic understanding of the plant-derived drugs that appeared courtesy of transatlantic encounters. Today, he takes his thinking further, looking for the earliest–and persistent– traces of the presence of cinchona bark in the pharmacopoeias of the Amazon.
Peru Offers Chinchona Bark to "Science" (Guess Who's Who?) Before 1820, when the alkaloid was isolated, quinine effectively did not exist. Instead, people had a drug known in Spanish as quina or “the Peruvian bark” in English. Quina was a term for the pulverized bark of the cinchona tree, native to the Andean forests of South America, that would be dissolved in water or wine and administered to patients suffering from intermittent fevers. It was from this bark that Pelletier and Caventou isolated quinine and other alkaloids.
Quina was a product of the early modern Atlantic World. DRUGS.