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I hadn't connected the recent popularity of heroin with the decade-ago colonization of Afghanistan. But of course, that's the time it takes to setup mass cultivation, informal supply lines, domestic distribution networks, and finally, social popularity.

Gosh, this shit really does camouflage over human-imperceptible timescales.



The kind of entities that participate think in longer timescales than most, which is a key advantage for plausible deniability. Strategically effective, I'll give em that.




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