Drug of Choice

Afghanistan has a monopoly on illegal opium production that has devastating global consequences, a UN report says. UN findings say an opium market worth $65,000,000,000 funds global terrorism, caters to 15 million addicts, and kills 100,000 people every year.

Germany first synthesized oxycodone in 1916 from opium-derived thebaine right around the time that prohibition led by Dow Chemical Company outlawed heroin and marijuana. Currently in the US there is a shortage of oxycodone since December '08 which has become the preferred substitute for heroin on our streets with many tens of thousands now addicted.

Nothing in creation is superfluous and everything is by design; the human being is not the product of amino acids haphazardly coming together to create life, but the crown of creation endowed with wisdom, the ability to articulate thoughts into words and freedom of choice. These wonderful attributes and abilities have their price in the sensitive nature of our being.

The Talmud–Book of Law explains in mediating the cost of injury that the price of pain is the amount one would pay for a narcotic to eliminate the pain–how unbearable life would be without pain killers. Fortunately for us God is full of mercy and gave to the world the poppy from which opium/heroin is derived.

Though God made Afghanistan to be to center of this trade, an indigenous wealth more portent than oil, it remains illegal from the whim of the drug companies. God gives while man taketh away.