According to a recent United Nations report, opium production in Afghanistan has increased to record levels this year. Thanks to the US occupation, all efforts to eradicate the crop – in a country which provides most of the world’s heroin – have collapsed.

The United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports annually on opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan. Executive Director Yury Fedotov told the international UNODC conference in Brussels, “Preliminary results suggest that illicit cultivation has increased well above 200,000 hectares [494,000 acres]!”

2016 is set to become one of the biggest harvests since the UNODC began providing estimates in 1994.”The production of opiates is expected to follow the same upward trend (over the next few years),” Fedotov said. “Eradication has been close to zero.”

He did not give a reason for the increase in production, but UNODC’s 2015 report found a  high correlation between the “poor” security situation in the opium-producing regions of Afghanistan and poppy cultivation.

Unfortunately, the problem isn’t poor security. The reality is that US Special Forces are on the ground in many Afghan provinces; in the field protecting the cultivation and production of opium on behalf of the CIA. Proceeds from illicit drug sales provide billions of dollars in revenue for many of the CIA’s illegal ‘black’ programs.

Fedotov offered the lame excuse that the US puppet government in Kabul is facing a resurgent Taliban 15 years after U.S. forces helped oust the militants but this logic is provably false since opium production was almost totally eradicated under the Taliban when they ruled the country.

Oddly enough – and I’m sure this is merely coincidental – heroin usage has risen to unprecedented levels in the USA. This is true for all demographic groups; particularly whites. America is currently suffering a growing epidemic of heroin-related deaths.

The spread of heroin into the suburbs and small towns in America grew from an ongoing wave of addiction to prescription painkillers. Together, the opioid crisis and heroin abuse are ravaging the country. Deaths from heroin overdose have quadrupled since 2000, intensifying what some experts are already calling the ‘worst drug overdose epidemic in American history.’

Sadly, the only reason why anyone cares about this issue now is because it’s happening to normal kids with bright futures ahead of them (meaning ‘rich’) from good families (meaning ‘white’) whose parents make a big stink when their precious children OD on junk.

But of course, there is absolutely no connection between all of the easily available heroin on America’s streets today and the increased production of opium in US-occupied Afghanistan.

It would be totally irresponsible of me to make that obvious assumption. I must be some kinda wacky conspiracy theorist for even THINKING such a thing!

Shame on me.