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If I had to be Aaron Carter, I'd want be fucking stoned too.

Posted by Dougsf | February 22, 2008 1:45 PM
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The problem with treatment programs is they don't allow you to maintain military bases in Columbia.

Posted by flamingbanjo | February 22, 2008 2:03 PM
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we need more people like High Strung

Posted by weezer | February 22, 2008 2:07 PM
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@2 - or Africa.

Meanwhile Afghanistan is the world's #1 supplier of Heroin, Cocaine, and MJ now.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 22, 2008 2:24 PM
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Ok...

How come millions of dollars worth of cocaine never washes up on shore when I'm hanging out at the beach?

And what kind of fucking moron goes running off to the cops when they happen upon this score of a lifetime?

I say blow them rails til you can't feel your face and pad your wallet with the proceeds from the rest!

Posted by Queen_of_Sleaze | February 22, 2008 2:36 PM
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I see no reason why poor people in Third World countries should have to suffer to keep spoiled Americans from doing drugs.

Posted by keshmeshi | February 22, 2008 2:44 PM
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Prove it, Will. All I want is a cite. Gimme anything.

The cocaine bundles washing up on shore remind me of this story about the Nicaraguan town that has become rich from fishing for "white lobster" -- bundles thrown overboard by smugglers about to be arrested: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/09/international.mainsection2

Posted by Fnarf | February 22, 2008 3:05 PM
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keshmeshi: If the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous were just subsidizing poor Bolivian farmers, that would be one thing. But unfortunately, they're also subsidizing the CIA.

Grow your own, kids!

Posted by flamingbanjo | February 22, 2008 3:12 PM
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CIA stats, Fnarf. Public testimony before Congress.

Have you NOT been paying attention?

Heck, articles in Time, Newsweek, US News, the list is very very long ... Afghanistan is a basket case and drug supply is their first name.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 22, 2008 3:21 PM
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Aaron Carter in a Texas prison? You know someone with profit in mind is gonna have a camera on his ass for the duration of his stay.

Posted by Bub | February 22, 2008 3:37 PM
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That's not a cite, Will. Give me a cite. I want a citation that says Afghanistan is the #1 source of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. That's what you claimed.

And no, no one has ever said that in Congressional testimony. Unless, maybe, you've got a citation? No? Nothing? Time, Newsweek, really? Let's see it. Let's see a link. You'd think if it was in Time and Newsweek, you'd be able to find it on the web. Not "basket case", not "awash in drugs" -- I want to see "world's #1 supplier of Heroin, Cocaine, and MJ now" ANYWHERE.

Because otherwise you're just full of shit. Like always.

Posted by Fnarf | February 22, 2008 4:48 PM
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No, Fnarf, Afghanistan isn't the leading supplier of those three drugs. It is, by far, the world's leading supplier of heroin. Last year marijuana prduction there increased by about 40 percent, but the U.S. and Mexico remain the world's leading pot producers. And, lastly, the title of leading cocaine-producing country is taken handily by Colombia.

Posted by Dominic Holden | February 22, 2008 5:21 PM
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Thanks, Dominic. I knew all of that, from some googling around, but it's good to see it here. Will is full of shit; he simply lacks the mental faculties to distinquish between reading somewhere that they grow a lot of dope and blithely stating "World's Number One". I like my facts to be true.

Posted by Fnarf | February 22, 2008 5:35 PM
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Just to pile on: there is no cocaine coming out of Afghanistan or any place within 10,000 miles of it.

And the overwhelming majority of Afghan opiate products are ending up in Russia and eastern Europe, which is one of the reasons they're so pissed off about our inept handling of the country.

And Afghanistan is nowhere near the world's largest producer of MJ -- even with a 40% increase.

Posted by gnossos | February 22, 2008 8:38 PM

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