Candace Owens

In the median US county, physicians prescribed an amount of opioids in 2015, equivalent to a nearly two-week supply of oxycodone for every resident, man, woman, and child. And for far too many of these Americans, that first prescription turned into an addiction. And when eventually prescription opioids are too hard to come by or too expensive, they turn to heroin and other street drugs.

This devastated my generation. Nearly every single person from my generation lost friends in high school and college to this tragedy. Regular kids, the star of the football team, the class clown, honor students, who all of a sudden dropped off the map, disappeared to out-of-state rehab or died of overdoses.

This devastated my generation. Nearly every single person from my generation lost friends in high school and college to this tragedy. Regular kids, the star of the football team, the class clown, honor students, who all of a sudden dropped off the map, disappeared to out-of-state rehab or died of overdoses.

This devastated my generation. Nearly every single person from my generation lost friends in high school and college to this tragedy. Regular kids, the star of the football team, the class clown, honor students, who all of a sudden dropped off the map, disappeared to out-of-state rehab or died of overdoses.

Die Tragödie der Opioid-Epidemie ist schwer zu überstatten und wurde immer mehr tragisch gemacht, weil sie von Doktoren zu otherwise successful and average people, not to drug addicts, not to dropouts, not as a last step down a long descent into degeneracy, the doctor's office itself became the gateway to the destruction of families and of lives. And during this time,

Die Tragödie der Opioid-Epidemie ist schwer zu überstatten und wurde immer mehr tragisch gemacht, weil sie von Doktoren zu otherwise successful and average people, not to drug addicts, not to dropouts, not as a last step down a long descent into degeneracy, the doctor's office itself became the gateway to the destruction of families and of lives. And during this time,

Die Tragödie der Opioid-Epidemie ist schwer zu überstatten und wurde immer mehr tragisch gemacht, weil sie von Doktoren zu otherwise successful and average people, not to drug addicts, not to dropouts, not as a last step down a long descent into degeneracy, the doctor's office itself became the gateway to the destruction of families and of lives. And during this time,

Afghanistan was by far and away the leading global supplier of the opium used to make these drugs. We waged a war for 20 years to subsidize and protect these profits. American soldiers guarded these poppy fields while the opium derived from them was shipped home to addict and kill their own friends and family members. But then something changed.

Afghanistan was by far and away the leading global supplier of the opium used to make these drugs. We waged a war for 20 years to subsidize and protect these profits. American soldiers guarded these poppy fields while the opium derived from them was shipped home to addict and kill their own friends and family members. But then something changed.

Afghanistan was by far and away the leading global supplier of the opium used to make these drugs. We waged a war for 20 years to subsidize and protect these profits. American soldiers guarded these poppy fields while the opium derived from them was shipped home to addict and kill their own friends and family members. But then something changed.

Around 2015, fentanyl started to flood the market and began turning up in samples of other street drugs like ecstasy and cocaine. You can see here the purple line is other synthetic opioids. Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017 These images depict a lethal dose of fentanyl, which can be as small as a few grains of sand.

Around 2015, fentanyl started to flood the market and began turning up in samples of other street drugs like ecstasy and cocaine. You can see here the purple line is other synthetic opioids. Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017 These images depict a lethal dose of fentanyl, which can be as small as a few grains of sand.

Around 2015, fentanyl started to flood the market and began turning up in samples of other street drugs like ecstasy and cocaine. You can see here the purple line is other synthetic opioids. Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017 These images depict a lethal dose of fentanyl, which can be as small as a few grains of sand.

You can see the size of a lethal dose of heroin compared to a lethal dose of fentanyl. So now this stuff is being mixed into other street drugs to make them feel more potent. And kids are dying from overdoses when they think they're taking something else that is at least in the grand scheme of things relatively harmless.

You can see the size of a lethal dose of heroin compared to a lethal dose of fentanyl. So now this stuff is being mixed into other street drugs to make them feel more potent. And kids are dying from overdoses when they think they're taking something else that is at least in the grand scheme of things relatively harmless.

You can see the size of a lethal dose of heroin compared to a lethal dose of fentanyl. So now this stuff is being mixed into other street drugs to make them feel more potent. And kids are dying from overdoses when they think they're taking something else that is at least in the grand scheme of things relatively harmless.

How strange, though, that we are no longer interested in Afghanistan and their poppy fields, right as the heroin market is cracked open by this new synthetic opioid that makes poppy cultivation essentially obsolete. Must just be a coincidence, huh? Sort of like that one time back in 2019 when a cargo ship owned by JPMorgan Chase was seized with 20 tons of cocaine on board.

How strange, though, that we are no longer interested in Afghanistan and their poppy fields, right as the heroin market is cracked open by this new synthetic opioid that makes poppy cultivation essentially obsolete. Must just be a coincidence, huh? Sort of like that one time back in 2019 when a cargo ship owned by JPMorgan Chase was seized with 20 tons of cocaine on board.

How strange, though, that we are no longer interested in Afghanistan and their poppy fields, right as the heroin market is cracked open by this new synthetic opioid that makes poppy cultivation essentially obsolete. Must just be a coincidence, huh? Sort of like that one time back in 2019 when a cargo ship owned by JPMorgan Chase was seized with 20 tons of cocaine on board.

The estimated street value of this shipment was over a billion dollars. It was the largest vessel ever seized in Border Patrol history. And so you might say, huh, our federal government sure is taking this drug trafficking thing seriously. But you read more closely and you learn how the world really works.