America a free country? Haha, I wish.
Our rights to free speech and privacy have been raped by the PATRIOT ACT...which not only did Bush pass, but he also vetoed several other bills that would have reversed it.

Powder heroin these days is 80-98% pure depending on location, a decade ago it was 2-10% pure. Now it is more often insufflated these days, it can also be smoked, no need to shoot up. The more direct method of ingestion the more likely you are to overdose, it is harder to overdose by snorting than injection or smoking. It doesn't only come from the middle east but also Southamerica, Asia, south africa...
Interestingly enough Bush praised Afghanistan in banning opium poppy growth in 2001 by giving THE TALIBAN $43 MILLION. This didn't stop heroin manufacture however because
Despite U.S. and UN reports that the Taliban had virtually wiped out the poppy crop in 2000-2001, authorities in neighboring Tajikistan reported that the amounts coming across the border were actually increasing. In reality, the Taliban gave its order to halt cultivation merely to drive up the price of opium the regime had already stockpiled.
Even if the US got no heroin from the middle east it would only encourage more production elsewhere and the trade routes would shift to make up for it.

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0304d.pdf

I would also like to note:
If you pay 20$ for a roll of X or DMX or whatever your getting ripped off man. Pay 20$ for a hit of amphetamine, fuck that man.
MDMA is so very much more enjoyable than amphetamine.
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