Friday, June 7, 2019

"Australian Authorities Find Record-Breaking Stash of Meth "

From the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project:
Officers found sound evidence of meth in stereos that arrived on a boat from Thailand, the Australian Border Force said Friday.

The street value of the seized 1.6 metric tonnes of methylamphetamine, known as ice or meth, is US $835 million. The value of the additional 37 kilograms of heroin that was also found in the shipment is worth $13 million, according to the statement....MUCH MORE
Is this an act of war?
I'm starting to think this is an act of war.
I know the demand calls forth the supply but I'm having a hard time seeing how supplying meth is any different in health effects than dropping an equivalent tonnage of bombs on a country, and probably a dozen orders of magnitude worse.