Heroin’s Hidden Ingredient, Courtesy of a U.S. Company
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- A $324 jug of acetic anhydride made in Mexico by an American company was enough to produce 90,000 hits of high-grade heroin. The drug cartels can't get enough of it.
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The state keeps producing damaged parents who produce children with drug-abuse tendencies then they address the symptom of drug sales but not the root cause of kangaroo divorce court family breakdowns and child abuse/neglect. It's to be expected when human time is maximized towards being GDP & Tax cattle for those running this gong show rather than focussing on a healthy relationship and rearing their children.
controlling chemicals/substances is stupid - war on drugs doesn’t work - but the rules impact actually legit scientific research because of cost and regulations
Bloomberg is worthless fake news with a pinch of truth, but it’s occasionally entertaining. And, occasionally legitimate. Why would anyone pay for this?
I understand that Bloomberg isn't "worthless fake news" but then again "We have some exciting news!" We're gonna charge you for it!
First it's not "exiting news"... it has more to do with greed... and it just means I'll have to go get my news somewhere else.
It's pretty blaring, you have to rein in our marketing department as they have no idea what the Internet really is... and marketing it à la Trump... "exciting news" when it's actually the opposite. I mean... you feed us great content to make us more knowledgeable but with the other hand, you take us for stupid people.
The irony is that they're shutting down the purest heroin product, so the market will instead go to fentanyl laced heroin made in bathtubs, that will be much more dangerous to the end customer.
It's already happened. There's been very little heroin on the streets of the US for years now. That's what the opioid "epidemic" is that they're always talking about. There's no more people using than were 20 years ago, but more people are dying because of the potency of fentanyl. A person who knows what they're doing can live a normal life using heroin every day, contrary to what most believe. A person trying to use fentanyl every day and trusting that the person that mixed it did it correctly is playing Russian roulette.
Well there’s no easy solution to this. Taking actions can lead to more dangerous products, but not doing anything will slowly cripple society. We can ban those drugs and not criminalize people that became addicted to them, but it will take a joint effort of both parties to make that a law.
And.. the 'end costomer' deserves better quality, why? Isn't that end costomer supposed to be not a costomer of narcotics at all?
@@abhisheksoni2980 exactly your making this drug harder to get but easy to make, often more dangerous chemicals will simply be sold in its place. So your essential spending money to make the current problems worse
@@abhisheksoni2980 The heroin/fentanyl epidemic mostly comes from the use of lower opiates like morphine. You should not blame them for trying to find an alternative to their prescribed drug, when they either (cannot afford the drug anymore) or (are not prescribed the drug anymore)
"iT wAs uNrEaL tO mE aN aMerIcaN cOmPanY CoUld dO tHiS" -
*laughs in oxycontin*
That part was hilarious
Lmao true or not to mention any oil company - like chevron in Ecuador
Yeah that was disgusting and so insincere
Come to my house bruh... i got a bottle of vintage clorox
@@hsvr ikr.
“Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world” -Serj T.
Gota love system of a down and all the work from those lovely lads. Great quote
@Michael Dee for you and me to live in!!!👁
Successful drug policies show that treatment should be increases and law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.
Cringe
Mainly our country, govt wants us all to die
All these guys saying how shocked they are, whos shocked by this? Business as usual for hundreds of years
Not hundreds but for a while.
Typical the u.s, to act all serious when it comes to 'drugs', mainly, while ignoring cause & effect, as well as many real crimes..
Be wary of the righteous, usually they're the most guilty of them all. I'm sure the manufacturers of oxycontin were "shocked," when lawsuits started coming their way. They were so shocked that they started moving around billions of dollars to various personal bank accounts, safe from company liability. The company declared bankruptcy and settled for $12 billion if I remember properly, and no one ever heard of the company again. The individuals responsible are laughing to the bank I guarantee you. It's all very... shocking lol.
Thousands I think..back to China, back to Alexander the Great, maybe not heroin but the opium trade
the shocked american voters are the problem
"Fell through the Cracks" is code for some politician is getting rich
yep
Acknowledging that police on the ground & in all levels of administration have a powerful impact on moving the drugs & marketing the drugs.
Weapons, money and chemicals go from US to Mexico without any problem, then drugs and women enter US without much problems either. At those quantities it is impossible important people wouldn't be aware of this and participate in it.
Yeah and they force us to be dumb when we catch em
@@beavinator420 How can they force us to be dumb? If one forms opinions no one can take that away. Another thing is sharing what we know, others learn from it too.
When the war on drugs was never anything more than a war on personal freedom
Or just war on black people 🥴 supply the drugs then give them 20 years for even the smallest amount
Poor people. You don't have a monopoly on suffering.
@@Amvndah so only blacks are affected by the governments horrors? All races are negatively affected by govt. Not just black ppl.
Nixon’s war on blacks and hippies.
@@glitchinthematrix5761 I’m talking specifically movement about “war on drugs” and yes srry white people Have had it ridiculously hard in this country and have had presidents, fbi, cia put out specific assignments targeted to lock up all the white men for drugs that they supplied for you, I’m srry all of your “leaders” were shot dead and anything white people have ever tried to make for themselves has been destroyed. 😓
Oh and i definitely remember how whites were treated during Brown v board of education. You guys had to plea and beg to have the simple right of going to school and had adults kids and the towns of people spitting and attacking y’all. Youre right white people “fACE tHe HorRors oF The GoVt ToO” 🥴
"I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Columbian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during the prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: Ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way. "
- Nino Brown, New Jack City
This is also a part of a song by Immortal Technique, Peruvian Cocaine. It's a sound bite to end the song
Agree100%
Did he go to prison perhaps?
@@bitTorrenter no he got gunned down by the old man from the pj's walking out the court room
The communists of Soviet Russia had a saying that the Capitalists will sell you the very rope you use to hang them. Or something. I'm paraphrasing poorly but you get my point - if there's billions to make, we'll do it. Will it destroy us? Maybe, idk. Will it cost us MORE money in the long run? Sure but that's future Homer's problem. Today's Homer has big oil, big tobacco, coal, sugar, big pharma, etc.
Acetic anhydride is not really regulated in anyway... mainly because it is widely used for organic synthesis and analytical chemistry. When I worked at a small polymer company, we ordered it regularly without going through any hoops. You just order it from a chemical company such as Sigma-Aldrich, the reason they don't look out for it is because it is used everywhere. If you were to strictly regulate acetone, acetic anhydride, diethyl ether, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid (all List II Chemicals [suspected for use in the synthesis of drugs]), universities and companies would have a field day because they buy 99.9999% of it. Hell, 90% of chemistry labs use acetone and hydrochloric acid to clean glassware, so they buy it en masse.
There is no way that it would be logical to make acetic anhydride as hard to get as something like carbon tetrachloride, because then research and synthesis would grind to a halt.
There needs to be more research put into a documentary like this.
See, I knew there was something more to this than this show..ty.
Tetrachloride, think we used to use that to degrease stuff in the depot, used to knock guys out.
I'm a metal worker and we use many of those chemicals to clean, etch, or otherwise change the surface of different metals. Same as you said, order from chem supply.
The moment I heard the thing he was shocked by I was like, I used acetic anhydride many times in my chemical studies. If it were banned, you could make it from even easier to obtain materials. The molecule is just two vinegar molecules combined
For export. Local isn’t controlled **
The most damaging drug by far is alcohol.
But at least it is regulated.
Well I agree that alcohol destroys lives. But history has shown clearly that regulation can and does compound and intensify problem. Regulations also create entirely new devastating problems.
Problems aren’t fixed by simply regulating. Life is more complex than that.
@@tytipton6346l wasn’t saying regulation is a panacea; it is far better than non-regulation though.
The antipathy towards drugs and drug use is lazy and controlling thinking.
Until we fix bad parenting and cultures that exclude, and replace mistrust and hate with love and kindness, we will continue to damage people needlessly who will require drugs to cope with the traumas thus inflicted.
So we arrive at a world where no one is traumatised in childhood - perhaps drug use will be less of a problem.
Until then, I say let people use drugs to help them cope.
And don’t punish them for trying to feel ok.
@@brianjones3191 I’d like to have more insight bc drugs make family issues, and incarceration issues, oh yeah and also most crime is committed to get dope. I volunteered at a prison and was surprised by how chill everyone was there. Drugs warp people. So says captain obvious
@@tytipton6346
Addiction is a symptom of trauma.
It is self medication.
We used to call regulations by its real name "revenue"
"Unknowing", sure. They totally didn't know they are selling serious quantities in area where the legitimate chemical consumption for the industry doesn't justify it. And they just happened to make a convenient packaging as well.
Yup!
How about we blame the person putting poison in their body!
Maybe the people buying it really suck at chemistry and waste a lot of the product.
There is a slew of chemical plants in Mexico and AA is a pretty common compound, one of the staples of the industry. The consumption of the AA by the drug producers is a drop in a bucket. The company didn't do "Billions out of drugs", it just didn't put any additional effort in the control of distribution, because businesses always care about overheads.
Those executives saw the potential compensation and couldn't resist.
3:24 the reason it's #1 on the list is due to alphabetical order
I thought Bloomberg were supposed to be journalists.
@@DarrynJones it just sounds so much more sensational when you say "it's the #1 on the red list because ...." anything besides "alphabetical order"
I didn’t even think it was hard to obtain or make, but organic chemistry lab obfuscates all that I guess
Still, one doesn't exclude the other : it could be the #1 on the list AND the most concerning chemical to make heroin (and they talk about heroin specifically).
@@superresistant0 there are other precursors and reagents that would arguably be "most concerning" than something that is trivial to manufacture with a simple lab setup and elementary knowledge.
The list *is* ordered alphabetically and the reason cited in the video is just a subjective opinion for sensationalism
Nothing is illegal as long as the right people get paid ..
And uncle sam get his cut..freaking greed people
Let's just go back to the old days where you can get a prescription for cocaine for ghosts in your blood.
Lol have you ever seen the ingredients of old cough syrup? It used to have straight up heroin, cocaine, and marijuana in it. Doctors used to be wild
@@aniquinstark4347 People didn't have paid sick days in the past.. guess that mix would have helped them struggle through sickness..?
@@leggyblonde11 people still don't have paid days off
@@eank3429 Which countries still have no paid leave? Even most third world countries give state mandatory paid leave entitlements. I get 28 days paid annual leave, as much paid sick leave as required to get better and 18 days public holiday leave which is also paid. This is pretty standard in Europe.
At least bring back the original Coca-Cola!
They have done studies that show if heroin users get an unlimited supply of heroin they normalize their dosage and use and in these studies allot of these people where able to get a job and become fully functioning members of society, it’s when potency and purity are random and when supply is random that overdoses are common, these people need are understanding not for us to take away their fundamental rights as human beings
It's a tragedy that 99 percent of people won't agree with you even if they have nothing to prove you wrong.
@@MrXavi67I'd rather be right than ignorant (I agree with OP)
You hit the nail on the head.
@@hayorge27 I think the leadership or the policy makers will be willing to change the current state of affairs if the public are ready to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth . But the fact of the matter is that everyone is so brainwashed that they can't change their belief no matter how much the facts and evidences scream at them.
Those of us who are very few, like you and me and the OP, need to start a movement to at least get the people to have a real, genuine discussion. It may look like insignificant but the best we can do for now is to get people from all over the world and start an online petition, share it and support it.
Are you with me?
@@hayorge27 let's start an online petition to change this. Are you with me?
End the war on drugs and you end one of the many wars on the people.
“Mexico is an island in international drug laws”. In other words Mexico is a sovereign state and us laws don’t apply to it just like Mexican laws don’t apply to the us?
International drug laws are laws that are implemented in multiple countries (that agree to it ) to fight drug manufacture and distribution.
Acetic Anhydride is illegal to produce, buy and sell without a license in all EU too.
Same goes for MDP2P, Methylamine and other precursors and reagents.
@@kelainefes The only reason these laws exist is because the US strong-arms every other nation into implementing them. If they don't, there will be economic consequences.
The US unilaterally started the "war on drugs" and forced everyone else to follow suit. It's been law in most countries now for long enough that everyone thinks it's always been that way in their country and they came up with the laws themselves.
The Misuse of Drugs Act in the UK was only implemented because of pressure from the US. Previously Heroin addicts were allowed a steady prescription of Heroin from their doctors and drug users were not punished by the law. Drug abuse rates were actually low under this system as were deaths. They skyrocketed after implementing harsh punishments for possession and disallowing doctors from prescribing "illegal drugs" to addicts.
@@xeigen2 I agree with what you wrote 100%, I know the current war on drugs policy is only making things worse.
@@xeigen2 the US has a right to enforce these laws when they have proof countries like China and Mexico flood the United States with drugs like Fentanyl, Methamphetamines, Cocaine etc. Communist China already makes it very hard for an average foreign person to own or sell anything in China. I can only imagine the punishment for getting caught bringing drugs into China.
@@Guda88 China operates under state capitalism, while i fucking hate the CCP and its propaganda the idea that china is still communist is just American propaganda to inflame all the cold war republicans who start screaming at the sight of a hammer and sickle. The only things making it hard to buy and sell in china are the nature of the products you sell and the sanctions other countries have put on china (which harm the people not the government).
No amount of money, regulations, or harsh laws will EVER stop the drug trade.
The only option is to legalize and regulate this industry.
Unfortunately
@@laylasbabyalive3575 What's unfortunate about doing that?
It's literally the best, and smartest option available, I can't fathom why you would believe that it is unfortunate.
REGULATE?
@@donaldwilliams4019 factssss
Regulate it and treat users as having an illness and take a charitable medicinal route instead of a criminal route. But with how expensive treatments are, I can imagine how difficult it would be to get clean with proper medical intervention if you don’t have proper insurance, especially if you’re in poverty. We’d need to reform American healthcare simultaneously.
“A friend and I just walked into a feed store and bought 6 hundred pounds of corn, and the clerk told us he can get us much more if we want. That corn can make up to 40 gallons of moonshine. The fact someone can just walk into a store and buy this stuff is just ridiculous”
Unbelievable
Brilliant comment!
@@j.thomas7128 🙏✌️
It can also feed 1,000 chockens,, 20 hogs,, 5 cows.
More than 40 gallons
As a chemistry student this panic over acetic anhydride is honestly wierd. To us acetic anhydride is an extremely useful reagent. It's also extremely common.
What
AA is bloody hard to get. Ive handled my share & would not know where to aquire it. 20 years ago however......
Surprisingly easy to make, too. I’m surprised the cartels didn’t just make their own, but why should you if you can get it at a chem store?
Acetic anhydride is used all over. Even your aspirin is made with help o AA.
And it's actually easy to synthesize. All you need is acetone and acetic acid.
@@thepostapocalyptictrio4762 yeah i was gonna say, isnt it not at all difficult 2 make.. Cartels employ chemists... If they needed 2.. They would make it themselves
Anddddd the war on drugs continues to be a complete joke.
They needa stfu it’s sooooo!DUMB
Because it's a war on freedom and your mind.
As a hearing impaired person, I love it how I can follow along the story with visual aids such as, closed captions and transcripts just like the actor employed here.
Are we back to doing real news? Its been a while... let me pause my Meghan Markle and Octomom stream
Lol exactly
Fuck man, this hurts but is so true...
Man some of y’all are way behind the times. This has been going on for years over here.
Goddamn, haven't heard "Octomom" in a while lol
The state keeps producing damaged parents who produce children with drug-abuse tendencies then they address the symptom of drug sales but not the root cause of kangaroo divorce court family breakdowns and child abuse/neglect. It's to be expected when human time is maximized towards being GDP & Tax cattle for those running this gong show rather than focussing on a healthy relationship and rearing their children.
“That’s why it’s number one on the red list...” that list is literally in alphabetical order!
No go back and pause read there is e is third on the list and the n is second on list you just read what you want to believe just because the chemical happens to start with a doesn't mean is in alphabetical order science are not put in alphabetical order
If that was true aardvark saliva would be number one on the list. Very important chemical, that aardvark juice.
@@aaliyam912 I can read! "N-Acetylanthranilic acid" the N is not used for the alphabetizing
@@aaliyam912 How about you learn to form coherent sentences before attempting to correct someone. Lmao
Lol!
"the great tragedy for me for me in investigating this was the idea that any american company could be involved in that, even if it's unknowing."
speaks volumes coming from BLOOMBERG
Jesus, the guy pretending to be surprised an American company was tied to this is really killing the story.
I turned it off at that point
@@VictorKibalchich it never stopped
his surprise is staged, as was every smile and expression i saw the interviewer do when they came to make a documentary about me in Thailand.. so plastic-fantastic was it, i nearly puked in the cameraman's face.. having had a tv show made about me gave me insight into just how fake film tv and documentary is, and how staged it all is.
What was the show you had made of you?
US-Made chemicals. US-Made weapons. All billed in USD.
Are we the baddies?
Correction; "...billed in US PETRO-Dollars."
Understand the Petrodollar and you will understand the 1st reason for the invasion of Iraq (the 2nd was Control of the Oil), the murder of Libya's Khaddaffi, etc..
The state keeps producing damaged parents who produce children with drug-abuse tendencies then they address the symptom of drug sales but not the root cause of kangaroo divorce court family breakdowns and child abuse/neglect. It's to be expected when human time is maximized towards being GDP & Tax cattle for those running this gong show rather than focussing on a healthy relationship and rearing their children.
Not to mention demand for product . . . yep US
you left... US- insatiable consumers/junkies....
News flash, those in power have already known. And the more regulations you enforce the further it goes underground with lower quality substitutes. So congrats on doing what you've been doing. Finding continuous ways to continue losing the "war on drugs."
Finding ways to just hurt drug users more
I say legalize it all. Regulate it. We had over 100,000 deaths last year alone for crying out loud. People don't know what they are taking, it all has fentanyl in it these days. If it was regulated and legal I guarantee the first year alone you would see over dose deaths go down to like 10,000, 90 percent decrease., Because people would know what they were buying.
It's not a war on drugs. It's governmental bs. Wars end ?
Acetic anhydride (aka concentrated vinegar) is first on the list because the list is sorted alphabetically.
Vinegar is acetic acid, a different chemical
@@DarrynJones Ehh technically yes but its still pretty close. Context matter when you talk about how close two chemicals are to eachother. But in the sense that they are very easy to convert from one to the other makes them nearly the same in this context. The cartels would not be too bothered if they had to make it themselves but tons of normal users would be inconvenienced.
@@peterisawesomeplease Isn't acetic anhydride basically distilled vinegar with molecular sieves added to suck out the remaining water?
@@alexipestov7002 Yes. Its not totally trivial to make but pretty close.
@@alexipestov7002 That's glacial acetic acid not acetic anhydride
seeing grown men say they are shocked by any of this ,makes me wonder what planet they have been on for 40 plus years ,money talks alwys has always will ,
Right. Like no you guys. This is not shocking. Have you never played on a Minecraft server?
dea and these self righteous drug detectives have no respect for personal freedom or chemistry
4:18 tighting regulations just mean they set up a monopoly
Bloomberg needed the dramatic effect so just seemed to forget the fact that Acetic Anhidrido is number one on the Red list basically because of alphabetical order and not that hype Cam is trying to attribute to it
But it’s still a major component in heroin production, so what’s your point?
@@Cheezwizzz That they misrepresented the red list. And it’s place on it.
Plus they lied in the beginning stating it’s available everywhere except Mexico. Then later saying it is available there, and readily, easily accessed :0. It’s not a journalists place to twist the facts or straight up lie to people. This is not journalism, it’s propaganda.
Meaning, if they’d lie about this. They’ll lie about a lot more. That’s not right. And shouldn’t be supported, encouraged it should be discouraged. Which I’m glad the viewers seem to be doing. But they ain’t doing enough sadly.
Its also just a concentrated acetic acid, in other words, vinegar.
What never ceases amazes me is there young kids going to collage to get a higher level of education and they are using drugs that are produced in 3rd world countries under horrendous conditions
by people that don’t even have a 6th grade education.
"Heavily regulated" lol.... Heavily regulated right to the front door of the cartel's superlabs..
And it's made from vinegar and water, total nonsense
Legalize all drugs.
This guy just realized that corporations will sell products regardless of safety or use... Come on man
Acetic Anhydride is one of the most simple organic compounds, can be prepared in the lab.
Yes, but to make it pure enough, and in large enough quantities is another issue altogether. Same as making alcohol isn't hard, but making it either safe to drink, or in large enough quantities to be a viable fuel, are completely different prospects.
@@FreeManFreeThought alcohol is super safe to make safely. Just about every farm in Europe has a still.
@@RazorSkinned86 You mean to tell me those containers that they claim were so special and popular are the industry standard container for anything over 1 liter? I can't believe that this reporter would lie to me. :D
This whole thing is nothing but BS. Right when he starts with Acetic Anhydride being number 1 on an alphabetical list they lost all credibility. No one would make that mistake by accident. That is willful deception to make it sound worse than it is.
My guess is they are trying to drive the stock price of this company down by creating public outrage over their involvement. Why else would you single out a single company over this nothing burger chemical that is used in 80% of chemical reactions. Ever had to do an Acetylation reaction? Like making Asprin in high school chemistry. Also used for making modified starch or film. Even cigarettes.
@@mikevarga6742 You're right, just take the fraction above 78 degrees Celsius and that stuff should be fine if it is made properly, at least the methanol content should still be in an acceptable range. Provided the job was done right, just ripe fruit and pure yeast and maybe a bit of sugar. No wood parts, rot, fruit stalks or pips should be added as this can increase the methanol content. Below this temperature, it is not as safe as there are small amounts of acetone and other unwanted substances.
Addendum: Pectinase can increase the methanol content and the same counts for Savinase.
Marlon and Tannivin and also the use of silver wool have a lowering effect on the methanol content.
Disclaimer: I decline all responsibility for things you do. Everyone has to know for themselves what they can and may not do.
@@FreeManFreeThought It is easier than you think. You only have to carry out a fractional distillation to remove the impurities from acetic acid and ketones, it is even possible to do this process with a common destillator, which should be possible in any semi-equipped laboratory. With a "simple" destillator you just have to be carefully increase the themperature a bit higher than 118 degrees Celsius, because that is the evaporation point of acetic acid. For acetic anhydride the destillationpoint is 138 degrees Celsius.
This is like blaming Arm & Hammer for supplying Sodium Bicarbonate to make crack...
Sure not exactly the same, but Acetic Anhydride is an extremely common chemical in labs. I used it in highschool...
Yeah I remember that class in high-school, it was cool when the teacher showed how to turn morphine into H and share it with everyone...
I'll never forget that day
From Bloomberg (July 3, 2013): HSBC $1.9 Billion agreement with the US to resolve charges it enabled Latin American drug cartels to launder billions of dollars was approved by a federal judge.
It’s a horrible cycle but one that can be broken. Portugal legalized every substance, the result was crime and overdose statistics were cut nearly in half
Seriously, when will we learn that drug addiction is a mental health and social crisis. Making it illegal just invited real criminals to make tons of money
The infuriating thing about this is, that when I tell someone about this they think I’m a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nut.
Wear that tinfoil hat with pride! You may even have a bottle of this chemical in your house under it's more common name Vinegar. Conspiracy... Hell yeah!
They are wearing ear plugs.
Ignorance is blissful...
Those who are dancing are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music.
@@travisthechimp7857 No, vinegar is different than acetic anhydride. Vinegar is acetic acid. Vinegar is indeed used to make acetic anhydride. It is probably the main starting ingredient (I am not an expert on engineering the anhydride) but a number of other chemicals need to be reacted with the vinegar in order to make the anhydride from it. .
this is for sure what caused the fentanyl spike
"Top of the list"
Was the list alphabetical? lol
Hahaha
This JT Backer company starting to sound a whole lot like Madrigal Elektromotoren from Breaking Bad
I guess Lydia is not dead, but supposedly in a Caribbean Private Island with El Chapo's Wife and Gus Fring.
Oh yes😜😜
Real life inspires fiction
And there we have it.....i knew having brilliant show B.B. was problematic. Who the F is in charge the last couple decades for sure.....i know bumble brains
Drug zombies won't get Satan's way.....
Weird right ? Lol
No one is forcing junkies to stick needles in their arms
I dont get it... what's the tragedy? Everything about the drug trade is American made.
Sponsored by the US Govt!
I remember jumping through a lot of hoops and regulations trying to get a liter of acetic anhydride for a highschool thesis research, surprised to learn that's its an essential component for heroin production. Thats why it took months to get ahold of some.
The more useful an industrial chemical is, the more likely it can be used in drug production. This piece is incredibly deceptive in the way it's trying to push prohibition on more common industrial chemicals.
Got any of your "research project " left ? JK
Its ridiculous
It can be easily made and can or gotten directly from the DEA if you’re one of their H providers .
@@danwilkinson2797 I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Philip Agee in the mid 90s. He took questions at the end. I asked him about the CIA and cocaine. He told me that he had left the Company some time before, and so couldn't speak directly to my question, however at the time that he left, "by the CIA's own internal estimations, they were importing 95% of the heroin into the country." That was a big awakening for me.
This was a waste of my life.
We realized at that moment that we were risking our plausible deniability for having started the drug war in the first place in order to sell arms, put black men in prison and terrorize our civilians.
It was to put everyone in prison...
The more people they get in prison the more they can make us adjust to a police state
I am a recovering drug addict and it has to do with "the war on drugs" the American government is responsible for how easy it is to get drugs in communities. The us government does not want to stop it because it makes to much money off of the backs of Americans.
The problem is theirs tons of ways to acetylate stuff. Acetyl chloride will work. You can use glacial acETIC acid first for the 6th position To save on watched or controlled chems.
6mam
The problem is not any drug.
"Don't ask why the addiction. Ask why the pain?"
- Gabor Maté
And were is the Pain -the pain is in Brain-lose a love one and you have pain, not in the heart but in the Brain
This same ingredient is used in ALL the labs in EVERY University, all over the world, in large quantities.
And you might have just started a trend of robberies with your comment 😂😂
yeah. this video is BS content.
documentaries are getting better and better
Decriminalize and regulate safely.
You want to decriminalize and "safely" regulate heroin?
@@capisonpang5779 Do you think we are currently taking an optimal path?
@@capisonpang5779 it already is in some places look at Switzerland.
@@capisonpang5779 Yes
@@capisonpang5779 Yes. Unequivocally.
I don’t know why they’re trying to say this is shocking?!! Please, stop being naive!!!
Controlling this chemical is essentially an unwinnable battle. Acetic acid is in your pantry right now, its literally white vinegar. Anhydrous or Glacial Acetic acid is just vinegar with no water. And obviously, removing water from a mixture is trivially easy, it's literally just the process of distillation. Like making whiskey or vodka or moonshine.
Anhydrous acetic acid is extremely widely used as well. It's used to make glues, vinyls, paints, ink, synthetic fabrics, and all kinds of various plastics.
It's so ubiquitous, essential, and easy to make that it would be like trying to control the sale of salt.
The only states and countries that are winning the war on drugs stopped fighting the war on the products, and started looking at and reducing the reasons that people start using in the first place, and treating addiction like the disease it is instead of a crime.
It's like trying to close pandoras box. Drugs, alchohol, tobacco, and guns in the US have all been let out of the box. You will never be able to close the box, but you can learn to minimize the risks of what the box contained.
Educating people on the realistic risks associated with these things, educating them on how to safely use and test these things to prevent accidents should they choose to use them, and treating the misuse of these objects as a mental disorder that can be treated and prevented is the ONLY way forward.
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But Bloomberg, the MSM and the DEA are trying to Brainwash us
I'm according with you
There is no way aventor didn't know what it was being used for.
I find it somewhat hilarious
América:we need to fight againts drugs
Also América: lets Dell them guns and stuff why not
Legalise it
This is a bit silly. All sorts of anhydride are useful chemicals for all sorts of processes, not sure this is the big discovery you think it is.
Its crazy to think ppl dont understand how the war is creating more problems i feel bad for the users that arnt doing crime
Never mind that China ships fentanyl here by the shipping container
AHHHHGGH. shhhhhhh your not supposed to say that!!
It came with all those love letters to the Insurrectionist In Chief
I wish they would accidentally ship me just one large bag.
Just one. Thats all I ask for
I use to work at Rohm and Haas in Philadelphia as a Chemical Operator. One of the buildings I worked in produced a product called Goal. It was a very potent Herbicide that was sold to Asian. Acetic anhydride was one of the Chemicals added to make the final product. I also lived in Kensington all my life and it definitely is a different level on openness to drug sales/use here.
Kensington is wild
just go to a doctor and say you have ptsd and adhd and you got a load of benzoids and amphetamines legally. Even in Singapore.... hospitals and doctors dont ask as they are told to sell as much as possible and make commissions, so the best way to get opiods is to do the old back pain thing and get a prescription.. Plenty of people do that, including students for adderal. Hospitals are also drug dealers, they just sell more expensive, and dont want individuals to sell it
@Post-Apoc Space Dolphin Posadist from Uranus Just about impossible but still doable if you have a legitimate reason and try hard enough though ☝😉👌💯
@@C-TOWN-ALL-STAR It's a LONG shot, though. I have been tapered down from 430 mg./day (which was, I now see, FAR too high) and am now down to 110 mg./day. I will eventually be down to 60 mg/day...my pain is now not controlled, but it would be worse if I had nothing. I am half sick all of the time. I can't imagine people with pain trying to get any relief now. The meds they want to put people on are far more injurious to the health than, say, Oxycodone, and some of THEM are also addictive.
A barbarous age we have entered. The feds are accomplishing nothing but empowering the cartels. Take care, my friend:)
Wow u saved the world by making something illegal , to say that chemical is crucial for the making of H , is like saying the brand of shoes you have on is responsible for the work you pretend to do.
Moral of the story ,never trust neighbours on your daughter's safety . Their standard of protection may not be the same
Im past that level already, trust no one.
crazy how this comment comes as deja vu to me..amazing
You can make acetic anhydride by using something called a ketene lamp. All it takes is acetone and concentrated vinegar and a lot of energy.
Why would you volunteer that information ? Chemicals of all kinds lead to death and despair. Please see your area rehab soon if you have a problem being addicted to drugs. Your life matters
@@eyesopen4607 Are you serious? I've never taken any drugs in my life. I'm someone who's just interested in chemistry and Acetic Anhydride is an extremely useful reagent that is used in a million other things.
@@jumpierwolf Curious as to what it is used for than? Besides heroin, which Is the topic being discussed. Right? I do not want to offend you. I waa taking your comment in the context of the big drug problem literally killing young and old. Actually I a person in recovery. I would not wish addiction/ dependency on anyone, believe me. I believe the actual problem or questuon is why do we search for something or someone outside of ourselves to fill the emptiness inside? Thats all Im saying. Sorry for offending or assuming anything about you Sir.
@@eyesopen4607 It would be a shorter list to write down things that AA *ISN'T* useful for...
And nothing about how production of heroin in Avganistan raise 600% after US intervencion. Maybe because that heroin is not for US market
If they thought the ingredients for cocaine being manufactured in the United States was embarrassing let me tell you about Iran Contra
I'm pretty sure cocaine is made with petroleum (gasoline).
Cough cough ollie north..cough..
@@DarrynJones no wonder when someone is smoking crack it stinks of burnt plastic and petrol
R.I.P. GARY WEBB
The ad was sure holding up to it’s standard on the brainwashing.
Reagent does not equal ingredient. Christ on a stick, those traffickers are smarter than whoever wrote this headline.
This is a reverse scoop.
Meanwhile, when we're distracted fighting the culture wars the real conspiracies take place.
Yep the vax just keeps rolling out .
In Philly we call Kensington: Zombie Land. It's pretty crazy to see how these corporations that nobody knows are all in on this stuff. Also, those margins are crazy. You can make a million dollars off of a $300 bottle?!
Yea we have a section of Boston called methadone mile too. Sad
well the statement that "you can make a million $$" is bs, the drug sees many hands and each hand gets fed. More like $50,000 probably.
also, you don't know the company cause you don't work in a lab and handle chemical standards.... They are a huge player in that game like fisher chemicals
If you can sell a million bucks worth of $10 bags without getting shot or busted, then yeah.
Its first because it is spelt with an "A" then a "C" at the start. It's a coincidence that the chemical which poses the threat is a alphabetically at the beggining.
American capital: "regulations impede the market"
Also American capital: "we need more regs, the cartels are cutting into our sales"
The same thing happened with DMT makers. They make a pamphlet on how to make DMT and advised that you buy the chemicals from SMALL companies as the big companies are more likely to inform the police that you are trying to buy certain chemicals from them.
DMT chems aren’t watched u just need lighter fluid NaOH, vinegar etc
@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 bark
@@douglaswegener6463 everyone selling bark wouldn’t care tho. I mean the people selling bark are dmt fans
Thanks for stepping in n making it hard to obtain, that will show them. And thats how fentanyl was born.
Fentanyl has been around for a long time. Long before the opioid epidemic.
Fentanyl is Corona virus cousin!!
@@diy_mushroomguy yes of course . But u are amazingly missing his point. 👏🏻
thanks to chjina
Acetic anhydride is ubiquitous. Draconian suppression will harm commerce. Hate commerce, hate yourself.
The other side of the equation is that all of these regulation on chemicals is making it very hard for average people to get into chemistry, because so many common reactants are unavailable to us 😕
Yeah, I'm having a very hard time buying lab equipment, safrole, acetic anhydride and poppy straw.
@@bretthernan7589 I can’t buy sulphuric acid legally anymore!
"Ingredient" should refer to a component of a finished product's formulation. "Reagent" is the word to use here.
its also only number one on the list because its alphabetical and its not essential at all, you can convert morphine to heroin with all kinds of things. they would just switch if they had to.
When I learned Mexico has only one place In the whole country they can purchase guns, and they are very hard to get🤯🤯 So the guns are from us in the US and the demand for drugs and the money is from US too, wow we have no reason to say or do anything judgmental but we do have a reason to take some responsibility for the deaths of Mexican people caught in drug violence crossfire!
Well they've got to swap the drugs for something.
This is exactly equivalent to saying the most common and important ingredient in cocaine production is kerosene or gasoline. I am outraged that you can go to any street corner and buy it. It’s only supposed to be sold to legitimate buyers. It needs more regulation.
I similar argument might be - we need water to grow marijuana. Let’s regulate dihydrogen monoxide (water chemical name to make it sound scary like acetic anhydride)
The hypocrisy of our governments.
No kidding. The state keeps producing damaged parents who produce children with drug-abuse tendencies then they address the symptom of drug sales but not the root cause of kangaroo divorce court family breakdowns and child abuse/neglect. It's to be expected when human time is maximized towards being GDP & Tax cattle for those running this gong show rather than focussing on a healthy relationship and rearing their children.
@@dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593 🙏
At a minute and 32 seconds my eye caught the word Bloomberg which means I'm wasting my time and so you!
Very interesting !!! Large corporations and their obscure deals .Great reporting !!!👏👏👏✊✊✊
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We provide. We demand. We allow. We don't allow. Everything looks like a excelent coordination at a USA top level.
Addiction is honestly not as much of the problem as people think.
WUT ?
One would think " Hey why don't we use our American military muscles to enter Mexico and put a stop to the drugs and cartel crisis "? Because the U.S. doesn't want to lose their share of drugs and money they're getting 😉
The Mexican military is already trying, but you need more than sheer power to stop to the cartels - every time they take down a major cartel, smaller ones grow to take their place
As long as there's demand there will be supply.
Think u got it backwards lol, as long as there is demand, there will be someone to supply it
Acetic anhydride is vinegar with two acetyl groups rather vinegar is one acetyl group with a water attached
They can still turn it with Vinegar, there are plenty of substitutes - with Fentanyl around what's the point
3:25 "At the top of the list" yeah it's in alphabetical order.
Thought the same thing
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Yeah it is purified vinegar
There's many,many instructional videos on UA-cam for many different chemical pathways to produce acetic anahydride. ketene lamps, sodium acetate. It's an extremely simple molecule that's any chemistry undergrad could make with their eyes shut.
now that's the first sensible comment I have read here. Thing is, common Joe Sheeple do not know these things, which is why TV works so well to control them
Do me a favor, plenty of American companies are up to their necks in unethical practices. just look at their government
Crazy they mentioned Kensington. Its brutal around here. They were on point. The hubs called K and A, Kensington and Alleghany Ave. You can find what you need in an open air market there. It's wild
A lot of youtubers are making videos there daily. Awareness is being spread. Stay safe.
@@GregtheGrey6969 oh really? I will have to check them out. I work with a couple guys who live there. I had asked them before if I could make some youtube videos out there with them.
@@JoeKyser one of many, maybe you can find each other.