{"id":90044,"date":"2012-04-07T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2012-04-07T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T20:26:08","slug":"the-politics-of-heroin-cia-complicity-in-the-global-drug-trade-cia-complicity-in-the-global-drug-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/07\/the-politics-of-heroin-cia-complicity-in-the-global-drug-trade-cia-complicity-in-the-global-drug-trade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alfred W. McCoy<\/h3>\n

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D<\/span>espite the decades old rhetoric propping up our $50 billion a year \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d the Federal government has once again become \u201cclose partners\u201d with an opium growing group of psychopaths. From Vietnam\u2019s Golden Triangle to Afghanistan\u2019s Northern Alliance, the history of the CIA training, funding, arming and protecting terrorist Drug Lords is long and well documented. This book is for everybody who still believes that selling weapons to murderers is simply \u201cone of the down sides to using \u2018unsavory characters\u2019 in our war on Terrorism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Alfred W. McCoy Despite the decades old rhetoric propping up our $50 billion a year \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d the Federal government has once again become \u201cclose partners\u201d with an opium growing group of psychopaths. From Vietnam\u2019s Golden Triangle to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}