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- When we think about the global heroin trade, the news is usually about Mexican cartels and North American opioid crisis. In fact, the country seizing more heroin and opium than any other is usually the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Despite being an authoritarian, religiously puritanical state that even bans alcohol, drug addiction has spread like wildfire across Iranian society.
This is how a combination of geography, geo-politics and failed War on Drugs policies in Iran have created what might be the world’s worst heroin crisis - and how corrupt elements of the Iranian state itself might be profiting from it.
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1:02 History of Iran's Opioid Crisis
3:03 Punishment For Drug Related Charges
6:45 Drug Treatment Programs
7:45 Corruption
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I love how they killed our own ppl on sept11 then flooded their own or our country with the H that was from the country they invaded. How many ppl can u fit in a telephone booth? A couple thousand.
Fun fact: The photo of exploding 50 Tons of illegal seized drugs on national TV is just pure comedy. What is interesting is that the EU countries, whose population is 10 times smaller than Iran's, import at least 50 tons of heroin every day. Then you can imagine the import of Iran for the entire country with 80 million people. So burning 50 tons of drugs is just small pocket change for Iran. Those are the real facts and the world needs to know this. I hope this comment stays for ppl to see.
Edit: The drugs, spec heroin and coca are illegal in our world just because you cannot earn money off of it by yourself alone unless you work for the Gov. or big pharma companies. Otherwise it wud be free and legal as its God given plant for everyone to use it as real natural medicine. The demand is high bcz they put the price on it for their own benefit and your suffering. By natural law no drug should be illegal and the Governments and Corps world wide will never allow that to happen, now you know why!
"Iran and USA don't tend to agree on much, but perhaps in fatally mismanaging an opioid crisis, they may finally have found some common ground" well said!
they dont even care when individuals do it. our neighbour had opium with him coming back from religious pilgrimage and they just kept him a few hours and sent him home. i think hes a veteran who got hurt in the war. its crazy how they execute kids for it but some people they dont care
so true...
Don't count on us in the US big pharma owns politicians.
What a fucking joke, who do you think is flooding their country with the heroin, or rather what I should say is who do you think is ultimately responsible for Iran being flooded with heroin in the first place? Duhhh its the US…. Just like how the Chinese are trying to flood the US with fentanyl…. Its a tool of indirect war that has been used for hundreds of years now and really longer….
When it comes to US policy in the mid-east the US has one question… ‘Who put our oil under their sand?’
Im an opioid addict from England,Im stable on methadone and havnt used heroin in 4 years now. In England the addicts dont know how lucky they are compared with these places.Not all addicts are bad people,they are ill and need help,all it takes is some childhood trauma and a dealer to appear in your life and its so easy to go down that wrong path. Stay strong my fellow victims of this disgusting drug
Great job you switched from one drug to another
@@haiderallah3241 And you just drooled another plume of mucus onto the floor of the internet - completely pointless, showing no education, insight or understanding with respect to the issue at hand.
If you're an automaton or some other sort of insentient drone that just generates mind-numbing platitudes, please accept my apologies and a bouquet of aconite.
@haiderallah3241 yes its great job! You wouldn't say that if you knew what hell is, but u don't and its easy to be a saint in paradise and spout ignorance to uneducated masses. By switching drugs he saved his life and that's all u need to know!
@@outlawedTV88 Thank you, sir or ma'am', for saying this so that I don't have to.
Thanks Jamie and Vice..... I really enjoy this series.
Idgaf 😑
If torture and death don't work, it shows you just how powerful opioid addiction is ... I remember when I was using, I was afraid of getting arrested and going through withdrawal, so I'd keep a stash I could quickly access in case I got pulled over. I'd even lock my doors just so if a cop came up unexpectedly, I could still have time to ingest them. I don't know if I agree that it's a disease, but at the very least it's a huge problem.
I’m an addict who’s been in recovery for over a decade. Been clean a little over a decade and I also agree it isn’t a disease. I have been through treatment and worked steps but I just can’t agree that it’s a disease
I’m sure you’d agree cancer is a disease or diabetes and both are caused by peoples choices but still permanently changes your life
@@ZootedSosa I'm not gonna die on this hill, I'm about 60/40 so I could be swayed either way, but your argument makes no sense whatsoever. Yeah, you can get cancer from smoking, and that's a choice, but other types aren't a choice ... And addiction you could stop by not picking up again, as difficult as that might be. You don't have that option with cancer. You can cure addiction, you can't cure cancer. There's some solid arguments, and not trying to be a jerk, but yours might be the worse one I've ever read.
@@UnwrittenSpade that's awesome!! I haven't picked up since 2016 ... I don't always say I'm still an addict cause I feel like I've really overcome it, but that doesn't mean I put my guard down. Hope you enjoy your holidays, I know they could sometimes be tough for us ... And I'm about 60/40 so not completely convinced, but I tend to agree with you. I do think people are pregenetically disposed to having an addictive personality, but the fact that it can be "cured" by simply not using (however difficult that might be) at the end of the day it's still a choice.
@@topspot4834 it's a mental illness. Once your brain *clicks* over into addict mode, it becomes insanely much harder to change back from that, and most who do get clean still have to battle with the fact that their brain will always forever be geared to wanting that DoC again
The War on Drugs series is a fucking banger!
The word banger means bad/piece of crap where I'm from, lol.
ong series is goated
“bAnGEr”
@@andrewmacpherson4664 Another Banger
This is my favourite series, I'm genuinely upset Vice isn't churning out longer documentaries
Especially long drug related documentaries. Their channel used to be the SPOT.
This is how vice keeps you hooked🤣
@@CreatingAlong
Free documentary is a good channel
Agree
The new kids want content content content.
Great job covering this.
If you're able to pay someone in the government your cargo will travel safely to its destination
Oh no dude, you got it all wrong. The Gov is actually paying you to be a dealer. Its nice when u hear the real truth
Nice episode. I’m living on northwest Iran, Tabriz, near the Turkish border,and it is definitely true that the opioid crisis has been a major problem for at least 20 years. You can find most kinds of narcotics, within an hour or two, if you’re familiar with the drug market of city. And also illegal alcohol 🍺 as much as you want, which is much riskier than legal alcohol, because you frankly don’t know the production process. I hope things change soon, cause I want my city back. A safer place where I can raise a child without fear of addiction or violence. Special thanks to “Vice Family “ for quality work as always 🙏🏻🌼
More power to you!
@@MEGAMIGA Thanks 🌼
Thanks for sharing.
These videos are always so interesting
In a way, the US and other western nations are lucky that Iran has such extreme views on drugs. All it would take for them is to look the other way and all those tons of opium and heroin would end up in western countries.
If you knew anything you would know that iran support hezbollah which accounts to a huge percent of drug distribution. Iran don't like their people doing drugs but they are more than happy to make money of it. it's a shame no one knows this.
@@yotammarkman9307 What I meant was that it's a good thing they even bother to stop those shipments. About Hezbollah, if they make money out of drugs, it isn't something new. The CIA has a long history of funding it's operations with drugmoney.
I think Iran should look the other way and even profit from the trade. We gave over 6,000 policemen's lives to protect spoiled Europeans and Westerners from this poison, while having one hand tied to our backs and receiving existential threats from the barking American dog. No more. Let the degenerate Occidental get his fill of afyōn and taryāk and deal with the consequences. Not one more hair of the head of an Iranian young border soldier should be sacrificed for "eUrOpE".
- An Iranian
You're smoking crack if you think the Iranian government who's always saying "Death to America" doesn't have its own drug dealers to exclusively push drugs into America and her allies.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 I think the iranian government is smoking crack for even bothering to stop those shipments. They don't need any special drugdealer because all those drugs are destined for the western market anyway.
Looks like drugs are still undefeated in the War on Drugs
Bro at 0:19
had a beef wit heroin. Man was smacking the mess outta them poppys😂
Very interesting, this seems like a very vice topic to cover and i absolutely love it
Some of these people forget alcohol is a drug.
it’s more so about access and severity, alcohol in moderation is a lot less severe than the likes of heroin and means people don’t turn to harder and illegal means when there is a legal cheap drug available to access.
@@ticklyzebra6861 alcohol kills more statistically
so is nicotine, and arguably sugar
Whatever is socially excepted is a poison to society like a plague
Alcohol is the same level in Iran, but it’s black market!
Pretty good needs to be longer!!
its not a war on drugs its a war on control of the drugs sold.
If you can't stop cartels control them
Lies again? Drugs Guns Black Mask
Get rid of users so that it will not sell......very simple
@@cj41079 Why people should be free to put whatever they want in their bodies. Also good fucking luck.
@CJ Yang how would that happen?
I fought the war on drugs. Drugs won.
@Donny i'm weak 😂
Lol...did you get rid of the dealers??
God is with you🙏
Same dude
I fought in the war on drug too. I fought for the insurgency lol.
So sad, so tragic to see people get addicted to drugs, then their lives cast aside dealing every minute with their addiction.
Good job!
As someone who’s been clean of opioid addiction for 15 years, it’s disturbing to know how it’s handled in the Mideast. It would be hell on earth for those unfortunate to fall in addiction.
on the other hand they probably get the highest quality H in the world
@@Louthsk8er I'm thinking they ain't gotta worry about getting fent. Lol
@@seankeikbusch9404true that. im thinking they dont gotta worry about anything. the fent its just hitting certain parts of europe right now
There’s hope in growing recognition of medication assisted abstinence as a front line treatment to save lives, get people to stop playing Russian roulette with fent/h bags, and allow users to form a foundation for their sobriety
You’ll be back sooner or later
This is so incredibly sad.
"Oh, you're depressed, hit rock bottom, hopeless, and full on addicted to dope? Lemme just beat the addiction out of you, that will surely help." These people have zero clue as to what addiction is.
Shut up. Your acting like anything we’re doing here in America Works. Nothing works, but at least they care enough to do something about it. In the Drug Addiction community we call you an Enabler, being soft only kills them faster
Death penalty seem to be a good solutions
The entire island of Bali was hooked on opium at one time. So they started executing drug users. Some died and most of the rest quit drugs. You want to see a place that does not handle addiction well just look at the USA or Canada.
@@bricktop6216 I'm from indonesia, a lot of people are still on drugs, especially in bali, since white people go there a lot, and it never will stop. I've never heard of this bali opium addiction from anyone in bali that i'm friends with, or when i was there. If there was a reduction in the amount of opium users it was probably a change in the culture surrounding it or the cause of them being on drugs. I now live in the states, where people are on drugs because our incredibly bad modern way of life over here is just making everyone depressed and suicidal. It's about the cause not the symptoms. If you think executing people for being addicts is a good idea watch the video.
@@prodbasedmystik colonial java 1900-1940 is when people were hooked on opium. It wasn't just a handful of people like today. It was destroying their way of life not just for addicts but for the rest of everyone as well. It was causing health issues and beyond. I'm surprised you don't know about this being from Indonesia and all. I'm not sure what states youre talking about. I did watch this video. That is how I found this comment section.
I'm completely surprised because of accuracy of this content.
good job
Drug trafficking will never end as governments rely on its contribution to fill their own pockets.
Vice doing good job.
Very educational.
8:10 that one guy who turned the opposite way lmao
Peace and love to the world 🇦🇲 🇮🇷❤️
44
@@Tacticalerth your mom didn’t last longer when she married your dad 44 that ? Internet thug
@@Adam3.33 in 44 day u were defeated and Armenian women were enslaved
not for Iran and Pakistan!
@@ahmadzafar1111 Well brother peace is limited in Armenia until azeri brainwashed troops kill men women and children then disrespect their dead bodies like godless people may god punish them for their hate that they teach to 1st graders love and peace to the whole world may the guilty be punished by god amen 🙏.
When they say alcohol is “social fulfilment” you know the world is screwed.
I don't think you quite grasped the point there.
Regardless, alcohol had been a part of social fulfillment for millennia, so I don't know what you're on about.
@@Shinkajo more like part of social degeneracy for millennia. I am all for decriminalisation of drugs and supporting drug users but the idea that “if people only had alcohol they wouldn’t be doing other drugs” is just ridiculous.
That's always been tylhe case
@@domhamai social you sound more like a social degenerate since you clearly think alcohol was drank for fun back in the day and not because the weather was so dirty it would kill you
@@domhamai I'll just say go read some history and archaeology. It's not that simple.
Thankyou Vice.
Damn Bro! Love the new look
If people were happy there wouldn't be a need to get drunk or high.
Lol this is bullshit.
As an American all I can say is....good luck bro. Drugs win. Hands down
In Iran only sexy heroin no boring fentanyl.
God Bless Drugs
"God bless drugs, every one, especially methamphetamine" - Tiny Tim Cratchit
No no , don't worry, they will defeat it with death penalty
When do we in the West start to realize a war on drugs, or a war on poverty, or a war on crime, etc doesn't work? Its not like we can win a war on crime & say 'the war is won! no crime will ever happen again!'
When I was in Amsterdam, most drugs are de-criminalized, and I didn't see a bunch of people walking around with needles in their arms.
The moment we make a tangible thing illegal, the demand for that thing skyrockets.
So I agree with you man - drugs will win. Hands down.
Now hold on.
You're saying that the country with some of the strictest drug laws has the HIGHEST per capita drug use?
I'LL BE DANGED!
Eat feces bud.
I hope the people struggling with this find peace.
Can I use on of your video reupload with my music on youtube??? @vice
4:44 The calculation is wrong. Iran population is around 80M and %2,8 of this population is 2,24M not 4M
I went to Iran a few years ago thinking as a dry country, it'd be a nice opportunity to take a couple weeks off the booze.... well that's true I hardly drank alcohol but my god I did everything else.
:)))) tell me about your favorite one
Track in the end of this video, what is it??!! So atmospheric.
This is a great series from Vice. If they could stick with high quality fact based journalism like this, they would not be in such financial problems.
All I hear in this series are complaints about how government controls have failed, and unless I've missed something, I've yet to hear any suggestions or proposed actions. What changes should be made?
Decimalization and regulation
Clean, legalized drugs across the board in the US
The money the police spend on militarization to catch drug dealers could go towards harm reduction and treatment.
The war on drugs is over, drugs won.
Prohibition doesn't work.
more harm reduction and legalisation worldwide also emotional trauma support.
I’ve begun to change my tune towards the legalization of drugs. However, measures need to be taken if we take that route. A friend of mine is an EMP. He had a unique opinion: If someone OD’s, they get 4 services from an ambulance or Narcan from a responder. After that, they’re cut off. Let them die. I was surprised to hear that, but it also correlates to burnout first responders face. My thought process is this, after one OD, all future responses have a substantially higher bill. Insurance won’t be obligated to cover it either. This would prevent insurance rates from getting astronomically high for everyone, help prevent burnout from first responders, generate more revenue for the county through these calls, etc. Further, legalization also would lead to a decrease in fentanyl lacing everything…Legalization should only be permitted in homes or certain establishments though. Not on the streets or parks.
Free the cannabis plant
Free ur mom from cuffs instead
@@generalrommel5666 free deez from your mouth
Bruh this ain’t about cannabis…
good job
That last line was an absolute slapper
I listen to videos as I work a physical labor job, I'd love to hear vice content if there was a English dubbed version, or audio only release on the website. I know you probably leave the language of origin with subtitles to make it feel more authentic but I often have to switch to an alternate video on the same topic as I can't understand the context of the video off of 75% foreign language): Not all Vice videos are like this.
I'm a writer, artist (born certified in graphic design) and musician. I also like listening to Vice documentaries. An English dub would be helpful for that, but when watching I definitely prefer subs. Picture in picture without original language subs for reference is nice.
I say it all the time in the videos, can’t stand subtitles especially listening when you can’t read them
@@vallisdaemonumofficial Hey Vallis, im wondering why you felt the need to tell everyone your jack of all trades title?
+1 I agree, English dub option would be great as I often listen to these as podcasts
the FTC unfortunately doesnt cover youtube fully like it does television and radio. so there is no regulation forcing closed caption or described video like there is on TV for American produced content.
it`s not cheap anymore.in the last couple of months the heroin price jumped from 1$ for g to 10 for 1 gram
Lol in the US it’s at least 10x that price
Perfect
I was wondering what happen to our daily dose of War on drugs from Vice.
I don't think even Goku can win a war with drugs
It’s also very important to note the difference between a drug user and an addict
Also why separate alcohol from drugs? I feel like people think alcohol isn’t a hard drug and it’s one of the only ones that can kill you from withdrawal. It is a drug just like weed is too.
@@ZootedSosa who asked
@@ZootedSosa can weed kill you from withdrawals??
Heroin user=addict. Everything else is just fucking around.
@@bricktop6216 can heroin kill you from withdrawals?
Hey does anyone know the name of the track at 4:04?
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
I've bought and smoked weed in Azerbaijan where it'd still super duper illegal. It's super expensive and full of seeds lol
That's sad. I hope the message of hope can be heard in Iran. That an addict,any addict,can stop using,lose the desire to use and find a new way of life.... The 12steps are the key.
All thanks to God that it worked for you, but the 12 step program doesn't work for everybody. People struggling with addiction should definitely give it a try, but it doesn't help everybody and there are other methods/programs that can help. The problem is seeking that help or letting it in when it finds you
We've got alot of meetings all around Iran, my friend. It just that sadly the people in active addiction REALLY outnumber the ones in recovery. There is also the problem that the rehabilitation compulsory boot camps (many government funded) we have here are kind of unethically using the name of one certain 12 step organization, and so that causes alot of resentment in most so they steer clear of meetings. I mean when youre getting beat up or tied to a tree and hosed down with cold water, while also going through withdrawals, in the name of "Such and Such Anonymous" i think the addict mind (or any mind) would be like yeeeaaahhh if i hear that organization's name again im gonna run to the hills.
U can't escape pain cuz u live in iran lol
Nah. 12 steps is dangerous rhetoric. Fucking 1930s new age horseshit. Two percent success rate. Gtfoh.
Read and do some research. Cults are great until it's time to leave or you disagree with their bullshit. AA is full of predators and abusers. I feel sorry for innocent pure hearted people that get caught up in that bullshit. Snakes fakes and flakes. "god loves me now because I don't drink' yeah. Ok buds.
Interesting
Best Vice War on Drugs documentary YET!!
Damn, watching this as I load up a bowl.
Opioids use is directly proportional to stress.
Peeps are stressed out and trying to deal with opioids.
You'd think those guys would learn how to traffic their drugs more stealthily
Selective enforcement, bro. The Farci only care about their enemy's crimes.
Congratulation for the reliable and correct report of Vice News
ayo Jamie with a new haircut 🔥🔥🔥🔥
It is interesting how you did not mention involvement of USA (and it's troops) in cultivation and distribution of heroin worldwide, during their invasion of Afghanistan.
Yea, they should've distributed even more of the stuff to the camel jockeys of the mountains
Ridiculous!!!! American soldiers won't have that 💩 around them. It's garbage. And wouldn't give to worst enemy.
@@oanna1221 you can lie to yourself as much as you want, but it is fact (proved) that USA Army was (and still is) involved with drug, aka heroin dealing from Afghanistan. Same as with other atrocities (all over the world).
Heroin exists still? Wouldn't know it, based on the fact that basically anything that's sold as such, in North America is basically 1-8% Fentanyl(synthetic opioid) and 80-90% benzodiazapine (and probably some amount xylazine).
@A Bon -You'd be hard pushed to find Fentanyl in the UK. Most of the US heroin comes from Mexico I believe.
While in Europe it mostly comes from Afghanistan, through Iran and up into Europe via Turkey.
benzodope is definitely not as widespread as you think. here in the midwest, half of the dope is just 1%-15% fent, the rest powder, or like 25% heroin mixed with fent.
Heroin exists everywhere in the world besides America. Majority of the world it’s hard to find fentanyl and there is no demand for it as heroin is a much better drug.
Ya that's only North America. Russia and Iran have big heroin problems right now and even western and central Europe still got H.
Fentanyl doesn't exist to any meaningful degree across the pond.
@@paulfletcher3998 Iran gets most of its heroin from the Turks
Nobody saw the guy turning to the wrong side at 8:10 😂😂
That looks like a really complicated TV
The United States needs to stop their war on drugs too, going to jail for getting high or selling drugs is inhumane
What an idiotic comment. Image how nice our cities would be if people weren't dumb enough to do drugs. Less homelessness, less crime, less litter
Yes, a mindless group of zomboids is so human.
Depends on what youre selling. Do the people who sell fentanyl to unknowing buyers not deserve jail when the user dies?
First of all kudos to the VICE team fro making such a comprehensive YT video about the subject, but as a guy who lives in Iran, I'm gonna tell you the drug trafficking operations ran by the IRGC and the goal behind it goes deeper than what you covered in the video.
First: it is a huge source of income for the IRGC wether the drugs being trafficked to the neighboring countries or sold on Iran's domestic drug markets.
Second: The Islamic regime is using the act of controlling drug trafficking as a huge leverage to put pressure on the neighboring countries and Europe, they have always threatened other countries that if the regime wants (or in case the IR regime falls) the streets of European countries will be flooded with Heroin, opium and Crack. So they are using the control of drug trafficking as mean to insure the regime's survival.
Third: The IRGC drug trafficking operations goes way beyond Europe and Asia, in many cases IRGC has provided money, fuel, chemicals, heavy weaponry and raw materials for the South American Drug Cartels and in return IRGC uses cartel sicarios to terrorize its political critics on the US soil or any other part of the world.
Bro is concerned about US💀🤣
I sniff a lot of bullshit from this one.
@@kimjongtrump1934 if you are ignorant toward the truth, then the smell BS or HS comes out of your rotten brain
@@soroushdavarpanah6764 you are full of bullshit. You don’t even live in Iran.
Ye kos go peyda shod
I'm digging the new hair do bro
vice should do a video about drug epidemic here in indonesia. It is plagued with sabu addiction and the children are hooked to opioids. The worst part is that the police is part of the cycle supplying the drugs to their own people.
it’s pretty clear that criminalization exasperates the problem and creates far far more addicts.
Saying people not having access to alcohol leads them to drugs, is like saying people not having access to heroin leads them to heroin. Alcohol is a drug, and one of the most dangerous and harmful recreational drugs at that, far worse than most class A/Schedule 1 drugs. Go ask the scientists. David Nutt, one of the most prestigious psychoneuropharmacologists in the world, would have some words to say about that...
Thanks
Where is this place?
Who am I?
Why am I here?
Each time I silently posed one of these questions, the answer came instantly in an explosion of light, color, love, and beauty that blew through me like a crashing wave.
Check out the page on my name description, he got psych products and ships discreetly.....
Alcohol can be just as addictive and detrimental
Mix em together and you’ve got a ticking time bomb.
Can be, but the guy making this video is a British recreational weed user preoccupied with drug wars.
Yeah but you say this and people will scream at us
@@samsonsoturian6013 whose trying to tell me right now that the US doesn't have a worse opiate problem with its fentanyl.
Jamie should come to East Vancouver in Canada and see what opiate addiction really looks like so he makes more accurate statements in the future.
It's incomparable in every way.
@@obtuseangler768 even if that were true, what does it have to do with Iranians offing each other over a few pounds of opium?
If I lived in Iran I imagine I would want to use opioids as well.
Absolutely. Gabor Mate, a big voice on addiction, would say as much.
I was thinking the same exact things.
blame the west
@@Abdullah-uv2pv کس ننت
@@Abdullah-uv2pv easier to blame someone else then to take responsibility
Love the hair
Where is the "Inside" report though?
The fact that we get free videos on TH-cam by VICE is truly a gift 🤚
Makes you wonder how they’re making money 👀
@@Hermesborugerdian ads
@@Hermesborugerdian ad revenue, not exactly a mystery
When my family lived in Afghanistan they ate the seeds in those poppy plants where opium comes from
Those are poppy seeds lol very common
Buddy those seeds are on bagels and everyone eats them. It doesn’t get you high 😂
vice is doing great now. old vice is back.
Do you have any info on the
A M G tribunals
Oh wow, thats really a lot
Does this guy actually do original reporting or is he more of an crime analyst?
I have heard stories from my friends in the military of them guarding poppy fields. Everyone thinks it's all about oil. It's about securing opium for pharmaceuticals
We Afghans know thar your terrorist army did guard poppy fields in our country and were taking these poppies, aside from their killing, raping, torturing, jailing, bombing and drone striking. 9/11 was a false flag attacks carried out by your US government as a pretext to invade Afghanistan because under Taliban, poppy production was reduced to zero. Since your US terrorist army and NATO terrorists invaded Afghanistan, the opioid crisis has spiked all over the world.
Nah. We have fentanyl now.
Most of it comes from India and Tasmania to supply the pharmaceutical industry
Pills is what I need.
You do not have evidence to support that claim. Afghanistan has trillions of dollars of precious metals in its mountains which are yet to be extracted.
More likely is that the US used Afghanistan as a FOB to exert more influence in West Asia and to surround Iran from the east, south and west. Additionally, the US stands to gain from funnelling heroin from Afghanistan into Iran's border as a new front of their hybrid war against Iran. Does flooding your enemy with drugs count as chemical warfare, I wonder?
I love the last line
Narrator speaks perfectly until 6:22 and then stumbles gloriously...
As long as people feel the need to escape harsh realities, there will be a demand for drugs
Just try it once and you will understand you don't need problems to begin it. I am not addicted but the amount of dopamine release is enough for me to understand
Using Drugs is solution to Problems???? I don’t believe that it is Excuses!!!
@@akbarfarzin9857 Addiction Is classified as a disease
That's true too. People will argue with you because they think only their answers are right. They are probably right too, but quiet, we don't want too many to start thinking hard.
damn
I know that some people can’t handle it. But Some people are functional dependents.. and some people need it for chronic pain. Mental disease mixed with a war on drugs and biases from society creates a huge problem. That’s why people die. Because they have to go to the streets and hide. It’s horrible living like as if you’re being persecuted by SS. Bad enough the dependence or addiction is rough… I wouldn’t wish withdrawals on anyone but I do wish that everyone knew what it felt like so there was more empathy and understanding… war on drugs is so ignorant and there’s always a real hidden agenda… it’s not ever about the people. No one will ever stop opiates or other substances from getting around or its demand… let people be unless they hurt others then it isn’t your business. It’s not really about health or society. If that was true then the hypocrites would make other huge drugs and sugar and dangerous substances illegal too…
It has nothing to do with “social liberties”.. Iranians on average are far happier than the average westerner whether they / you want to believe it or not . The large addiction issue is simply related to the fact that 90% of the opium produced in the world comes from Afghanistan and all of the opium has to pass through iran - naturally people become addicted . By the way the west facilitates and benefits from the drug trade in Afghanistan
The most intelligent comment in the entire section. I am so sick of Americans entitling themselves to comment on Iranian affairs and polluting the feed with "drugs will win".
Death penalty for cannabis is a crime itself ffs!?
If you are carrying 30 kgs if you listened to the video. Not carrying for personal use.
@@JesperWR Cannabis *doesn't* kill people! Cannabis users are not physically addicted and dependent on THC. Opioid users can't get out of bed without a fix ffs!? That's what *dope sick* truly is...suffering from Opioid withdrawal. Yeah, I heard the video and it's absolutely ridiculous no matter the amount one gets caught with. Cannabis should be *decriminalized* worldwide imo!
@@JesperWR you could be carrying a ton still doesn't justify the death penalty
Its not true these dumb fucks dont even know what weed is in iran people smoke it anywhere g they dont care about weed they focus on opium and heroin etc from Afghanistan
@@JesperWR I mean it's a naturally growing plant... A literal WEED so... Why should you be punished for carrying any amount? You don't get punished for carrying other plants that contain poison or dmt for example. I understand punishing people for fentanyl possession and other synthetic or processed drugs but cannabis is literally just a dried plant
Im still amazed how much gets seized yet 1000s of tons dont, ends up in places like the forth valley in Scotland. Very weak quality but still gets over here.
I used to do Heroin and the stuff that came out of Iran and that area was the best heroin.
Iran may be notorious for all the bad circumstances that the citizens themselves have to go through, however their consistent activism certainly paves the way for a more life-changing development.
Uhm I doubt it considering they're murdering all their citizens and shutting down their power ext . They're not doing this to better anything whatsoever
I hope you're not praising that animal government, the drug war is a failure in every country and is actually a war on people, in particular poor and suffering people. Hopefully the real activism in Iran will be able to overthrow that hellish dictatorship. I for one am hoping for a Gaddafi situation.
Meh
No, you don't know anything about Iran. Islamic regime is bad at literally everything.
Apparently they have more dopers than the US!
I doubt it, the US has a multiple decade head start.
Is Jamie really trying to compare heroin to fentanyl? We all know fentanyl is only a north american problem and that heroin could never compare.
I knew about drug problem in Iran but didn't know the sheer numbers...holy hell!!
I am an Iranian and let me tell you that opium is mainly used by older people because there is this wrong perception that opium is a cure for many ailments like blood sugar and blood fat content. This spread of addiction has been the case for a couple of centuries now since when the British colonial powers distributed opium where ever they wanted to colonize. I am sure you have heard about the Chinese opium problem created by the British. As far as the younger generations are concerned, they are much more into alcohol and there is a great fake alcohol market in Iran which is more dangerous that even drugs. This is because home grown stuff is filled into branded bottles and sold at exorbitant prices. Many people don't realize that these are mostly fake stuff and can be dangerous. Lastly, Some young people go for the modern stuff like crack and so on but they are a minority.
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8:10 my dude other way lol!