Interesting, I hadn't thought about the shift from plant based to synthetic drugs, but it makes sense also with prosecution, it's much easier to hide a lab than a field. Mexico has a gigantic infrastructure for producing generic pharmaceuticals, and Pharmacist is one of the most popular careers, so I am not surprised at all we are producing all the synthetic drugs too. And now that you mention it, there was a meth lab that got busted last year or a couple back in the same street my house is in, so there is definitely an increase.
The timing of the ban of ephedrine from China makes sense!
I agree with you in the role spirituality can take, unfortunately I don't see supply going down any time soon. Entire towns and chunks of states in Mexico thrive due to the drug market, to the point we call the government a narco-state. It is an incredibly serious problem that capitalizes on the rot we have taken our societies to; a functional society doesn't have a problem with drug addiction nor, mmm, identity problems. I remember an experiment with rats about this, were they would be happy and allowed time outside or something like that, they wouldn't touch the drug but when they took that away they died of overdose.
The border crisis is a very complicated matter, the people crossing are my people, but every time I see something like that I go in conflict. One for the desperation that makes people leave everything like that and another just because I don't approve of it and I personally more solid measures should be used while we pave some way for people to work here legally without immigrating. I remember my debate club in high school was against illegal emigration to the U.S but rather focusing on well-being programs here. I am glad Obrador's government spun a whole battery of well-being programs from hospitals to banks and pharmacies and I think Claudia will continue that work; it was so needed that even the opposition used as a slogan "If we win, the well-being programs will stay" (yeah right).
One thing that desperately needs to be addressed here is the quality of life, because that is causing many of these things, but... that would take a whole social, economic and political overhaul in the same way Mexico would need a similar process to get our resources serve us instead of foreign investors and get rid of extreme poverty, social injustice and violence. Mexico is not a safe country either, obviously --there is no way any bike, or anything inside a car stays put at night even in the nicest borough in the country-- but the crime is different, it's a business, a necessity, and narcos even protect some towns and punish petty crimes mercilessly (they are not good people because of this, they want approval and do atrocities to get it too). Here I am afraid to get randomly shot (I've heard gun shots on the street the other day) or stabbed by some crazy dude or I don't know what in a corner of a park at night knowing the police will come but won't do anything. It's impressive to watch how we have stifled our ability to get anything done and at the same time spend preposterous amounts of money in it. And more so, having a very vocal group that apparently thinks this is alright? Sheez, we are living in the upside-down.
It's not an easier situation in Mexico, even if differently. Crazy hobo crime might not be a thing but it's brutal. People shouldn't starve, lack basic education, medical care and utilities in such a rich country while we have tourists complaining about our regional music being "too loud for them" on their resorts while seeping margaritas or thinking it's okay to just come here and "retire" in spite of the locals; nor should children find organized crime something to be proud of or worse, stolen by organized groups to be "trained" to be criminals... nor should women be afraid for their lives, mexico being the number one in feminicides; Nor should my best friend had to be shot repeatedly and left to rot on a ditch. It's a year today. But it's all the same, this gigantic monster we set loose that filled us with the whole battery of deadly sins.
It's true. This is systemic, much larger and the hydra has many heads as you say. I take refuge in the Trinity and the Virgin and on the many gods and goddesses that so patiently are still there despite my many mistakes, because really, when the world outside feels like is aflame, I can find no way I could see any of these without having at least some sort of inner peace.
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Interesting, I hadn't thought about the shift from plant based to synthetic drugs, but it makes sense also with prosecution, it's much easier to hide a lab than a field. Mexico has a gigantic infrastructure for producing generic pharmaceuticals, and Pharmacist is one of the most popular careers, so I am not surprised at all we are producing all the synthetic drugs too. And now that you mention it, there was a meth lab that got busted last year or a couple back in the same street my house is in, so there is definitely an increase.
The timing of the ban of ephedrine from China makes sense!
I agree with you in the role spirituality can take, unfortunately I don't see supply going down any time soon. Entire towns and chunks of states in Mexico thrive due to the drug market, to the point we call the government a narco-state. It is an incredibly serious problem that capitalizes on the rot we have taken our societies to; a functional society doesn't have a problem with drug addiction nor, mmm, identity problems. I remember an experiment with rats about this, were they would be happy and allowed time outside or something like that, they wouldn't touch the drug but when they took that away they died of overdose.
The border crisis is a very complicated matter, the people crossing are my people, but every time I see something like that I go in conflict. One for the desperation that makes people leave everything like that and another just because I don't approve of it and I personally more solid measures should be used while we pave some way for people to work here legally without immigrating. I remember my debate club in high school was against illegal emigration to the U.S but rather focusing on well-being programs here. I am glad Obrador's government spun a whole battery of well-being programs from hospitals to banks and pharmacies and I think Claudia will continue that work; it was so needed that even the opposition used as a slogan "If we win, the well-being programs will stay" (yeah right).
One thing that desperately needs to be addressed here is the quality of life, because that is causing many of these things, but... that would take a whole social, economic and political overhaul in the same way Mexico would need a similar process to get our resources serve us instead of foreign investors and get rid of extreme poverty, social injustice and violence. Mexico is not a safe country either, obviously --there is no way any bike, or anything inside a car stays put at night even in the nicest borough in the country-- but the crime is different, it's a business, a necessity, and narcos even protect some towns and punish petty crimes mercilessly (they are not good people because of this, they want approval and do atrocities to get it too). Here I am afraid to get randomly shot (I've heard gun shots on the street the other day) or stabbed by some crazy dude or I don't know what in a corner of a park at night knowing the police will come but won't do anything. It's impressive to watch how we have stifled our ability to get anything done and at the same time spend preposterous amounts of money in it. And more so, having a very vocal group that apparently thinks this is alright? Sheez, we are living in the upside-down.
It's not an easier situation in Mexico, even if differently. Crazy hobo crime might not be a thing but it's brutal. People shouldn't starve, lack basic education, medical care and utilities in such a rich country while we have tourists complaining about our regional music being "too loud for them" on their resorts while seeping margaritas or thinking it's okay to just come here and "retire" in spite of the locals; nor should children find organized crime something to be proud of or worse, stolen by organized groups to be "trained" to be criminals... nor should women be afraid for their lives, mexico being the number one in feminicides; Nor should my best friend had to be shot repeatedly and left to rot on a ditch. It's a year today. But it's all the same, this gigantic monster we set loose that filled us with the whole battery of deadly sins.
It's true. This is systemic, much larger and the hydra has many heads as you say. I take refuge in the Trinity and the Virgin and on the many gods and goddesses that so patiently are still there despite my many mistakes, because really, when the world outside feels like is aflame, I can find no way I could see any of these without having at least some sort of inner peace.