I had a heroin habit for years. I can't imagine introducing the drug to someone that's never done it. I haven't used it for almost 3 years. I still take very low doses of Suboxone. I've been desperate many times but I never stole or got over to feed my habit. I would rather die than introduce that drug to a child. I probably sound dramatic but I'm not introducing a child to destroying their own spirit. These people that are using this drug are broken people. The people that deal the dope are broken people. No amount of punishment will curtail this behavior. We have to live in a world of Charity and love. We are just a product of our environment. So the next time you see a junkie keep an open heart
To think that these streets and countless others across the U.S. we’re about to then burst at the seams with addiction within a few years? Sending kids across towards all the heroin they could take whilst being hosted by Vietnam…… A helpless & hopeless feeling shrouds me when I see or hear of such stories. I myself have an opioid addiction that I have been nursing now close on a decade, so sometimes watching things like this can really scare me, on the other hand, I’ve somehow discovered that when I’m going through withdrawals, I seem to watch a lot of mountaineering films, a lot of Whillans, Bonnington, Haston, etc etc……. It wasn’t a conscious thing to begin with lol. Dunno where I’m going with this haa! Now I’m rambling…………
I have never touched drugs but I have met several heroin addicts when I worked in prison, and some heroin addicts in my personal life. In my opinion, heroin is one of the most evil inventions made by mankind.
Fair play to you brother, I’m in Britain and we have a very serious problem with heroin over here now I live in the West Country of Britain and I’ve been a addict myself for many many years now and back in the early 1980s if you wanted junk you would have a go nearly a hundred miles into the city to buy that shit but now you only have to walk to end of the street now to score junk it’s got that bad over here now mate, I’m gonna be moving very soon hopefully out to the outskirts of my town because I’ve had enough now I really it’s something that takes just two minutes to get into and a lifetime to get away from you know but I’m just wondering what suboxone is, is it what we call over here in Britain subatex I think that’s how it’s spelt it’s only been around for just a few years now from Europe I think it’s from mate but I’m allergic to it when I was using them on script I was violently ill every time I used it so I’ve had to go on the next worst stuff methadone and I really do hate that shit, I don’t use heroin everyday and if I do have a dabble I don’t use methadone as well when I do , the Nazi scientists came up the green juice because hitler didn’t have enough morphine to give his troops on the battlefield so he ordered his scientists to come up with a substitute for it and they invented the methadone the bastards, they won the war after all by the looks of things, but in New York it was fat Tony Salerno stomping ground in Harlem and the Bonanno family in New York I’ve researched organised crime in America for 43 years now it’s really interesting stuff to research to be honest with you. But I really do wish you well with your recovery my friend I’m not one of those people who just because I struggle to get clean I always wish other people well they do get clean it’s great to see someone doing well it’s a very evil drug and they don’t call it the devils dust for nothing brother take care of yourself buddy from Stevie boy in Britain
It's Longer than Fifty years. I read "Down These Mean Streets" about a Puerto Rican youth growing up in East Harlem-back in the Forties. It had turned from a Jewish Tenement Slum into a Latino one by that time. He committed robberies to finance his habit. In the Late Fifties/Early Sixties, the problem Really got out of hand-especially in the NYC area. Burglaries and Muggings Skyrocketed...All for ONE Reason.
You’re naive if you think the US govt wants to stop drug use. Control it maybe, stop it absolutely not!! Just think about how many jobs wouldn’t exist if drugs weren’t available. 85% of inmates are in there because of drug use or selling drugs. Cops would have no work, judges, lawyers, court officers and everyone else who works for the Justice system in some way. Think about the amount of money and material things they seize every year from drug dealers!! Drugs are a huge part of the US economy. US spends billions on drugs every year, and that money goes right back into the economy. Most big dealers don’t save or invest lol.
If the Government truly wanted to stop the crime caused by heroin addiction, they could Finance multiple medical Heroin clinics to addicts that can't stay away from heroin even if they enter methadone treatment. This would cut crime by heroin addicts, but also Cocaine/ Crack/ Methamphetamine is also related to horrific crime.
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@@stevegallant3395 It's straight up propaganda now. They never tell the truth now. It's all written by script writer's. That's why they all say the same thing
This drug heroin scared the Daylights out of me when I was growing up. It killed five childhood friends growing up and twin brothers Joe and Sal. I haven't drank or done drugs since 1983 best move I ever made in my life
@@douglasmacomber6881 thank you,, sorry about your sister and your friends. I became eating a bag of popcorn on a Saturday night in front of my television. I isolated myself from drugs and drinking. I couldn't find a nice girl because everyone was on coke and drinking I did not want to be around that crowd no more.
@@joecap4372 I did the almos the same exact thing. Used to live on the crazy side “organized crime”. I had a life changing encounter with God that changed my life. After a while, I didn’t want ANYTHING to do with that life or the women that came with it. Not judging them or anyone else but it just wasn’t for me. So I went solo. Too much trouble out there. Plenty of gorgeous women with empty heads and rotten hearts. Most smoked pot or did blow, watched porn or just into stuff I didnt want to be a part of anymore. So…. I waited. It wasn’t easy but as I’ve learned, Gods timing is always perfect and I’m glad I waited. He gave me a wonderful woman I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. She loves God and me. She walks the walk. She’s drop dead gorgeous “ actually a former beauty Queen from Colombia”. I’m very grateful and can honestly say I’m very happy. I know God sent her to me. I had to do my part too “ stay away from the streets, have a clean heart - still working on it. Cheers
" There are thousands striking at the branches to evil to one who striking is striking at the root" The last sentence/philosophical quote summed it up perfectly. 60 years ago.
I started on small pain killers as a young teen and before I was twenty I was a full blown addict it was during the "pharmageddon" era in the early 90s and after. The first couple of times I got locked up I vowed to never go sick ever again and when I got out tried staying clean, didn't last and at that point I did whatever in the f*** I had to do to NOT be sick!! And then as the years went by and addiction medicine evolved a bit more I began maintenance treatment and the rest is history!! 💯💯💯+10
This was fascinating. Heroin and other drug adduction is horrible. I heard too many horror stories about it, so I was to scared to ever try it, thank God. I noticed that a couple of posters have had an addiction but are now clean and sober. My hat is off to them, I congratulate them on their sobriety and wish them all the best..
Make drugs legal . Those that have legalized have low addiction rates . Crime rates have dropped Their . Law enforcement costs have dropped . It just makes sense.
But.. people can function on weed, marijuana … and some function and think better. Or think they can think 😂 but productive, still going to work , dependable..adding to the economy. But some of these other drugs , Have a more drastic effect that would cause a lot less production. And if they would to legalize every drug, Then that would take away from the economy and eliminating a lot of jobs..such as with courts, lawyers, prisons , law enforcement,cities and government who counts on the above to continue finding, taxes etc that go to street repair workers and water and sewer all the way down to the garbage men. Unfortunately, without criminals and crime, the economy would be 5 times worse than it is now. Drug war ? Really? The government has to know where anything and what is coming from. They can’t send a missile and eliminate the source? 😢 Yeah don’t be fooled. Less wages and job opportunities cause all these people I mentioned above out of work !! 😂 and need jobs 😂 . All the way down to the restaurant workers who because of the above won’t be needed ..cause the restaurant won’t be making enough money because people would be broke .
It’s a shame that they made a war against the users and peddlers but yet the politicians played golf with the producers🤷🏽. Also giving government subsidies to the producing countries 🤦🏽…
I understand that you made your comment a while ago, but I sure wish that the game was still played that way, no, the pharmaceutical companies weren't satisfied with dilaudid oxymorphone, they had to find a cheap powerful drug, the devil itself, fentanyl,the tipping point, don't take narcotics, if you are on them now try your damndest to get off, with that one drug the game is over, you can die at any point if you're playing, take care be safe, I'm off my soapbox people. Thanks for listening to this rant, hopefully it'll make folks think.
what a great journalist ....turkey to Syria to Lebanon to Italy to France back to New York .To set up those interviews and travel there in the 60s would have taken a long time. thanks to mob fax
He ain't lying I was a heroin addict I've detoxed In jail many times hospitals detox facilities no matter where you go it's bad except for jail for so e reason once you get there an you realize your not gonna get it it doesn't bother you to much but man I'm glad I got my life together know it's they fetynal which is killing everybody..
Scary as hell. I couldn't do it in the comfort of my own home. It is literally Hell. Physically, Mentally torture. No sleep. No peace. I couldn't imagine being in jail kicking. I had to go back on the clinic recently and I hate that shit too. It's scary shit.
Don't look like a lot has changed since 1964 when it comes to drugs and drug abuse. In 57 yrs you would think our government would do something different about this problem since it keeps happening. Then again i don't really the government wants our laws changed when it comes to drugs since a lot of people would be out of a job, DEA included. Its all a racket if u ask me
I don’t know if bayer was involved in this. They patented some type of synthetic heroin but the French connection had their own labs. I assume they were making it without using legit companies. That would be more expensive and illegal. Maybe I’m wrong.
@@MOBFAX Do your research. Bayar were the first to produce heroin period. They were the first to be in 'The Business of Heroin', which happens to be the subject of the film.
Come on it's big business as long as business exists drug trafficking will exist. It's a sad and desperate people. Punishing people is not the way to fix this. It just seems that way because it's easier. It's a dumb man's answer to a social issue
NYC dude interviewed said on average he had a $20/day habit. Today, he'd pay $15 for one mediocre pain pill that wouldn't even get him thru his morning. Fetty = cheap & deadly potent, yet not dope, but still wouldn't see him straight into the afternoon; that is, if he survived into the afternoon. Then there's fentanyl's psychotic effects users must contend with, in addition to its flesh-eating after-effects, taking an arm or leg here, another life there. America's "War on Drugs" has never cared for those in it's throes. It's still about politics and greed, not those in need.
@@toddmorrissey8372 Heard gal once say speedballs waste of good dope, leaving one not knowing if coming or going & pretty much unable to do either. Came time where, no matter what one ordered, one & one was what one got. Must've been when up became cheaper than down. Annoying, costly days for specialists, half stash useless & resale value fraction of initial investment. Boom for Man tho, gitcha double-strung!
When Heroin was truly , really heroin..... $3 bag would get 3 dudes stoned for an entire day..... 8-10 hours at a minimum... Nicky Barnes was the Man at that time...........
_Here is the biggest Syrian smuggler of opium. He is serving 10 years._ Smuggler: I’m innocent. Smugglers dumped their stash on my land, and I took the bags to my home. Police came asking if I saw anything and I showed them the bags, but I had nothing to do with it. What they meant to say was that Hassan got cute and didn’t give the Syrian police their cut for this shipment, so we gave him a slap on the wrist as an example to show the Turkish smugglers like Ahmed who tried to smuggle 1/4 ton through Syria without giving the Syrian police a cut they will get life. 😂
During the Vietnam War heroin was produced in Southeast Asia. The CIA had rice farmers start growing poppy, and they even built an opium refinery there. The U.S. government is the biggest drug cartel in the world.
The term "French Connection" is a misnomer. Corsica is inhabited by men of Italian nationality though it is under the French flag (Napolian). That is why the alliance with Sicilians and the Italian-Americans was so smooth. Just check the surnames of Corsicans who were part of that crew.
1- Corsicans are neither French nor Italian, they are CORSICA! 2- the "Corsican mafia" to be part of it, you have to be Corsican, or have family ties in Corsica. 3- the gangsters of Marseille and the south of France are not necessarily Corsicans. 4- the organization of the "Corsican mafia" is closer to the camorra than to cosa nostra.
I appreciate the work and truths in this documentary. Lots of secrets very old but no less potent. Talking about opium transported through Syria. I wonder if these routes are still in use ?
You must have been out of your mind thinking like that. It's like being alone and bored and saying let me get in this quicksand to see how it feels. Dumb
@@carmendiaz4455 how can you know until you try.. (just look at the ones before you..) I do get it now but as a young on your own youth.. paths wind through hell sometimes... guide your children if you can.
Man, that existed until the late 1990s. Once cell phones became more prevalent, that thinned it out somewhat. The LES in NYC was even more notorious than Harlem for heroin. And spots like Newark, NJ and Paterson NJ.... you'd pull up and your car would be SWARMED by dealers and theyd be literally dropping bags of dope in your lap trying to get the sale.
Based on the thumbnail, I clicked on this thinking it was an Abbott & Costello movie. But, it isn't. Can't find my damn glasses. Great content, nonetheless!!
Next thanksgiving, at dinner, just ask him. Or say to him "Hey, Unc, wanna go cop?" If the says "yes" or doesnt answer because he nodded off into his mashed potatoes, theres a good chance it was him. Not sure what you win if you solve this mystery of yours though.
Next thanksgiving, at dinner, just ask him. Or say to him "Hey, Unc, wanna go cop?" If the says "yes" or doesnt answer because he nodded off into his mashed potatoes, theres a good chance it was him. Not sure what you win if you solve this mystery of yours though.
I read William S. Burroughs's _Junky_ and James Mills's _The Panic in Needle Park_ way back in the early '70's when I was still at school and they are two of the most depressing books that I have ever read, interesting and well-written, certainly, but as depressing as bloody hell. The using junky inhabits an exceedingly narrow, enclosed netherworld, so narrow and enclosed that it is positively claustrophobic. I'm glad that I was never tempted to use narcotics.
This is stupid. That man was doing what his grandfather and his grandfathers had been doing since the Silk Highway. We made it what we have now. Stupid then. Stupid now.
There are still $3 bags in Newark, NJ USA. $5 bags are the norm in most urban drug spots in NYC and NJ, but now its all fentanyl mixed with a TINY BIT of heroin.
Exactly the opposite. A $5 bag of today's fentanyl is over 10x stronger than the french connection heroin. Today's average fentanyl used won't even buy heroin anymore.
"You ever pick your feet in poughkeepsie?" 24:13 "Have you ever thought about the connection between the FRENCH UNDERWORLD and the MIDDLE EAST?" 🤣 Good thing "Popeye Doyle" figured it out, huh? LoL...Spoiler alert, it was Fernando Rey the whole time, like c'mon people, duh....🤣 🚨🚔"So, You ever pick your feet in poughkeepsie? We got a witness, You did didn't ya, You picked your feet in poughkeepsie?" 🚔🚨
@@helbitkelbit1790 yes they do in other matters but flooding their country with heroin is treason for starters. And im guessing you think thats alright?? They done the same thing with crack cocaine. Via Arkansas mena airport bill clintons town he was governor. Remember the contra scandal??
@@helbitkelbit1790 we all have something to worry about with hard drugs exposed to our young children . that poison destroyes generations of innocent souls and keeps up the prison population for the private corperations who get rich off this and milk our tax dollars so i dont get your pount in all this backing up drug dealers and gonverment who are supposed to protect our countries from this crap. Our governments betray us. While getting rich. Im assuming you dont have any children or know how heroin affects our economy etc. Our intelligence agencies are the real mafia.
@@helbitkelbit1790 and drugs isnt the only thing our intelligence agencies are involved in. Child trafficking is the next money maker thats why theres no "war on child trafficking" no funding for it whatsoever.
I had a heroin habit for years. I can't imagine introducing the drug to someone that's never done it. I haven't used it for almost 3 years. I still take very low doses of Suboxone. I've been desperate many times but I never stole or got over to feed my habit. I would rather die than introduce that drug to a child. I probably sound dramatic but I'm not introducing a child to destroying their own spirit. These people that are using this drug are broken people. The people that deal the dope are broken people. No amount of punishment will curtail this behavior. We have to live in a world of Charity and love. We are just a product of our environment. So the next time you see a junkie keep an open heart
To think that these streets and countless others across the U.S. we’re about to then burst at the seams with addiction within a few years? Sending kids across towards all the heroin they could take whilst being hosted by Vietnam…… A helpless & hopeless feeling shrouds me when I see or hear of such stories. I myself have an opioid addiction that I have been nursing now close on a decade, so sometimes watching things like this can really scare me, on the other hand, I’ve somehow discovered that when I’m going through withdrawals, I seem to watch a lot of mountaineering films, a lot of Whillans, Bonnington, Haston, etc etc……. It wasn’t a conscious thing to begin with lol. Dunno where I’m going with this haa!
Now I’m rambling…………
You are a kind hearted person who speaks from personal experience. God bless you.
I have never touched drugs but I have met several heroin addicts when I worked in prison, and some heroin addicts in my personal life.
In my opinion, heroin is one of the most evil inventions made by mankind.
Good work on your recovery🙏🙏
Fair play to you brother, I’m in Britain and we have a very serious problem with heroin over here now I live in the West Country of Britain and I’ve been a addict myself for many many years now and back in the early 1980s if you wanted junk you would have a go nearly a hundred miles into the city to buy that shit but now you only have to walk to end of the street now to score junk it’s got that bad over here now mate, I’m gonna be moving very soon hopefully out to the outskirts of my town because I’ve had enough now I really it’s something that takes just two minutes to get into and a lifetime to get away from you know but I’m just wondering what suboxone is, is it what we call over here in Britain subatex I think that’s how it’s spelt it’s only been around for just a few years now from Europe I think it’s from mate but I’m allergic to it when I was using them on script I was violently ill every time I used it so I’ve had to go on the next worst stuff methadone and I really do hate that shit, I don’t use heroin everyday and if I do have a dabble I don’t use methadone as well when I do , the Nazi scientists came up the green juice because hitler didn’t have enough morphine to give his troops on the battlefield so he ordered his scientists to come up with a substitute for it and they invented the methadone the bastards, they won the war after all by the looks of things, but in New York it was fat Tony Salerno stomping ground in Harlem and the Bonanno family in New York I’ve researched organised crime in America for 43 years now it’s really interesting stuff to research to be honest with you. But I really do wish you well with your recovery my friend I’m not one of those people who just because I struggle to get clean I always wish other people well they do get clean it’s great to see someone doing well it’s a very evil drug and they don’t call it the devils dust for nothing brother take care of yourself buddy from Stevie boy in Britain
And we thought we could arrest our way out of this problem. More than 50 years later, that very same problem is worse than ever 🙄
It's Longer than Fifty years. I read "Down These Mean Streets" about a Puerto Rican youth growing up in East Harlem-back in the Forties. It had turned from a Jewish Tenement Slum into a Latino one by that time. He committed robberies to finance his habit. In the Late Fifties/Early Sixties, the problem Really got out of hand-especially in the NYC area. Burglaries and Muggings Skyrocketed...All for ONE Reason.
You’re naive if you think the US govt wants to stop drug use. Control it maybe, stop it absolutely not!! Just think about how many jobs wouldn’t exist if drugs weren’t available. 85% of inmates are in there because of drug use or selling drugs. Cops would have no work, judges, lawyers, court officers and everyone else who works for the Justice system in some way. Think about the amount of money and material things they seize every year from drug dealers!! Drugs are a huge part of the US economy. US spends billions on drugs every year, and that money goes right back into the economy. Most big dealers don’t save or invest lol.
@@drpoundsign "the story of drug trafficking" on netflix shows you its been around and a problem way before the USA even existed
If the Government truly wanted to stop the crime caused by heroin addiction, they could Finance multiple medical Heroin clinics to addicts that can't stay away from heroin even if they enter methadone treatment. This would cut crime by heroin addicts, but also Cocaine/ Crack/ Methamphetamine is also related to horrific crime.
Best mob channel out there. No one has this kind of content and uploads them so regularly to my knowledge. Keep up the good work.
I appreciate that. Salute
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I had never heard of this channel and I watch mob/crime related stuff frequently.
This is great footage.
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Love these old documentaries better than today
Watch the movie A Hatful of Rain.
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This is an incredible report. From the poppy fields every step of the way to east harlem. Nobody does reporting like this anymore.
The way the news is reported has changed. It wasn’t as watered down back then. Salute 💯
Nowadays the news is treated more as entertainment than actual facts and knowledge
Major networks would happily lose money on their news coverage decades ago. Now the NFL is the loss leader.
@@stevegallant3395 It's straight up propaganda now. They never tell the truth now. It's all written by script writer's. That's why they all say the same thing
@@CMurder9611zzz Not For Long. They're making the players take the lethal injection. I think they're trying kill them off
Another gem of a find Mr. MOBFAX
Thanks for tuning in.
55 years later and the problem is EXTREMELY WORSE if the people involved in this report were transported to present day their minds would be blown….
This drug heroin scared the Daylights out of me when I was growing up. It killed five childhood friends growing up and twin brothers Joe and Sal. I haven't drank or done drugs since 1983 best move I ever made in my life
I watched it kill some of my friends too. And my sister in 94'
@@douglasmacomber6881 thank you,, sorry about your sister and your friends. I became eating a bag of popcorn on a Saturday night in front of my television. I isolated myself from drugs and drinking. I couldn't find a nice girl because everyone was on coke and drinking I did not want to be around that crowd no more.
Rip 🙏2 ur friend its took few of my peoplec2 I can't get away from it tho
@@tonythetiger1600 thank you for your kind words. Whatever strength you got use it to fight off this horrible drug call heroin
@@joecap4372 I did the almos the same exact thing. Used to live on the crazy side “organized crime”. I had a life changing encounter with God that changed my life. After a while, I didn’t want ANYTHING to do with that life or the women that came with it. Not judging them or anyone else but it just wasn’t for me. So I went solo. Too much trouble out there. Plenty of gorgeous women with empty heads and rotten hearts. Most smoked pot or did blow, watched porn or just into stuff I didnt want to be a part of anymore. So…. I waited. It wasn’t easy but as I’ve learned, Gods timing is always perfect and I’m glad I waited. He gave me a wonderful woman I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. She loves God and me. She walks the walk. She’s drop dead gorgeous “ actually a former beauty Queen from Colombia”. I’m very grateful and can honestly say I’m very happy. I know God sent her to me. I had to do my part too “ stay away from the streets, have a clean heart - still working on it. Cheers
The French Connection Movies Part 1 & 2 are all-time Classics.
-Popeye Doyle
My Grandmother tells me she remembers watching this when it was aired.
" There are thousands striking at the branches to evil to one who striking is striking at the root" The last sentence/philosophical quote summed it up perfectly. 60 years ago.
Your channel just gets better and better. Is is also good to watch the channel grow.
Salute
So strange to see the street scenes of Beirut and Aleppo before wars destroyed those buildings.
This kind of illuminates why those places were destroyed, the competition was taken out.
I started on small pain killers as a young teen and before I was twenty I was a full blown addict it was during the "pharmageddon" era in the early 90s and after. The first couple of times I got locked up I vowed to never go sick ever again and when I got out tried staying clean, didn't last and at that point I did whatever in the f*** I had to do to NOT be sick!! And then as the years went by and addiction medicine evolved a bit more I began maintenance treatment and the rest is history!!
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This was fascinating. Heroin and other drug adduction is horrible. I heard too many horror stories about it, so I was to scared to ever try it, thank God. I noticed that a couple of posters have had an addiction but are now clean and sober. My hat is off to them, I congratulate them on their sobriety and wish them all the best..
Make drugs legal . Those that have legalized have low addiction rates . Crime rates have dropped Their . Law enforcement costs have dropped . It just makes sense.
But..
people can function on weed, marijuana … and some function and think better. Or think they can think 😂 but productive, still going to work , dependable..adding to the economy.
But some of these other drugs ,
Have a more drastic effect that would cause a lot less production.
And if they would to legalize every drug,
Then that would take away from the economy and eliminating a lot of jobs..such as with courts, lawyers, prisons , law enforcement,cities and government who counts on the above to continue finding, taxes etc that go to street repair workers and water and sewer all the way down to the garbage men.
Unfortunately, without criminals and crime, the economy would be 5 times worse than it is now.
Drug war ? Really?
The government has to know where anything and what is coming from.
They can’t send a missile and eliminate the source? 😢
Yeah don’t be fooled.
Less wages and job opportunities cause all these people I mentioned above out of work !! 😂 and need jobs 😂 .
All the way down to the restaurant workers who because of the above won’t be needed ..cause the restaurant won’t be making enough money because people would be broke .
TY for posting this video
The interviews with people in the shadows is so fascinating
i bet the H back then was fire, not like this shitty fentenyl that'll kill you these days
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My favorite was the tan Columbian shit. Definetly beat the NYC scramble
Ppl say it was good up till the 90s
@@josephpalumbo1551 Ppl would be right. At $200 a brick you could stay well for a few days and still make enough to re-up. Usually.
YES ASSHOLES CUT IT WITH THAT AND YOUR A DEATH SENTENCE..NEXT CUSTOMER..IS NOW WHITE UPPER CLASS WASP..
It’s a shame that they made a war against the users and peddlers but yet the politicians played golf with the producers🤷🏽. Also giving government subsidies to the producing countries 🤦🏽…
1000%
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I understand that you made your comment a while ago, but I sure wish that the game was still played that way, no, the pharmaceutical companies weren't satisfied with dilaudid oxymorphone, they had to find a cheap powerful drug, the devil itself, fentanyl,the tipping point, don't take narcotics, if you are on them now try your damndest to get off, with that one drug the game is over, you can die at any point if you're playing, take care be safe, I'm off my soapbox people. Thanks for listening to this rant, hopefully it'll make folks think.
what a great journalist ....turkey to Syria to Lebanon to Italy to France back to New York .To set up those interviews and travel there in the 60s would have taken a long time. thanks to mob fax
Not to mention extremely dangerous
Loved it. Do you have "Biography of a Bookie Joint" mentioned at the start of the vid?
Here ua-cam.com/video/71DcL-BJo58/v-deo.html
" try to yell for help and nobody's there "
He ain't lying I was a heroin addict I've detoxed In jail many times hospitals detox facilities no matter where you go it's bad except for jail for so e reason once you get there an you realize your not gonna get it it doesn't bother you to much but man I'm glad I got my life together know it's they fetynal which is killing everybody..
Scary as hell. I couldn't do it in the comfort of my own home. It is literally Hell. Physically, Mentally torture. No sleep. No peace. I couldn't imagine being in jail kicking. I had to go back on the clinic recently and I hate that shit too. It's scary shit.
Real heroin not that shit they sell now.
So true
Shouldn't even call it heroin. Just call it fentanyl lol.
Nothing has change in the streets but great video my friend
Facts. It’s probably worse now.
@@MOBFAX not worse super worse bro
Everything has changed in Seattle. It is LEGAL
A lot has change
Fascinating. I feel like I'm there; voices, billboards, and antiquated opinions. You can not get this from a wiki page.
Thank you for the golden content.
This documentary is great.
It depicts the whole picture, "From Fiend To Fiend" and everything in between.😂
Great upload.
Don't look like a lot has changed since 1964 when it comes to drugs and drug abuse. In 57 yrs you would think our government would do something different about this problem since it keeps happening. Then again i don't really the government wants our laws changed when it comes to drugs since a lot of people would be out of a job, DEA included. Its all a racket if u ask me
Interesting that Bayer not mentioned here yet that pharma was the first commercial heroin producer over 120 years ago.
I don’t know if bayer was involved in this. They patented some type of synthetic heroin but the French connection had their own labs. I assume they were making it without using legit companies. That would be more expensive and illegal. Maybe I’m wrong.
@@MOBFAX Do your research. Bayar were the first to produce heroin period. They were the first to be in 'The Business of Heroin', which happens to be the subject of the film.
@@reasoning.. you are correct! People could buy it through catalogs with the needle!
@@reasoning..
I never trust anyone who says “do your own research”
If you have so much information then just cut and paste it
@@harryballz9486 some folks don't want to be spoon fed
Please upload more of this old documentaries ❤
I k ow we are talking about drugs here- but. Dang. I love the history you have given to us!! Thank you. I am forever subscribed!! Awesome!!
Brings new meaning to the term “going cold turkey”
Nancy Reagan tells us to "Just say No"... while Nike tells us to "Just do it"...
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Howard Sterns' father said : I told ya not to be stupid ya moron .
Hahahah...Nike does it alright, Slave Labor
I'm a nike kinda guy
BAM! The Chinese Communist Party feels justified in revisiting this horror upon the West.
Historically, they are not half-wrong.
Interviewer: "You must be a wealthy man?"
Black Drug Dealer: I ain't got no squawk!
Was he Jamaican? I wonder what happened to him.
Incredible work of journalism. Subbbed
thakyou gabvo
Great video very educational
Come on it's big business as long as business exists drug trafficking will exist. It's a sad and desperate people. Punishing people is not the way to fix this. It just seems that way because it's easier. It's a dumb man's answer to a social issue
A matchstick size dose of that H was all you needed.Thats how high quality dope was back then
NYC dude interviewed said on average he had a $20/day habit. Today, he'd pay $15 for one mediocre pain pill that wouldn't even get him thru his morning. Fetty = cheap & deadly potent, yet not dope, but still wouldn't see him straight into the afternoon; that is, if he survived into the afternoon. Then there's fentanyl's psychotic effects users must contend with, in addition to its flesh-eating after-effects, taking an arm or leg here, another life there. America's "War on Drugs" has never cared for those in it's throes. It's still about politics and greed, not those in need.
You'd do a "one and one". One matchstick of boy, one of girl.
@@toddmorrissey8372 Heard gal once say speedballs waste of good dope, leaving one not knowing if coming or going & pretty much unable to do either. Came time where, no matter what one ordered, one & one was what one got. Must've been when up became cheaper than down. Annoying, costly days for specialists, half stash useless & resale value fraction of initial investment. Boom for Man tho, gitcha double-strung!
Just recently discovered this channel and I am hooked on their videos.
Salute
Jay McMullen had a amazing career. I hope to see all his reports one day on you tube
I wonder how many pounds of raw opium it takes to make one Kilogram of Heroin?
Easily a 20:1 ratio.
And that's not including all the chemicals needed to process it.
Great stuff like always
Salute
I’m from Philly and grew up close to Kensington so I saw the destruction first hand
Rocky's house is there... I visited and found it rough...
Best Mob channel out here , thanks fratello 💯🙌🙌
Salute 💯
When Heroin was truly , really heroin..... $3 bag would get 3 dudes stoned for an entire day..... 8-10 hours at a minimum... Nicky Barnes was the Man at that time...........
He was a addict in 64 even though he was still.a dealer he became the man in 72 an had a run of making 10s if millions a year up until 78
Are you a junkie?
My favorite UA-cam channel.
_Here is the biggest Syrian smuggler of opium. He is serving 10 years._
Smuggler: I’m innocent. Smugglers dumped their stash on my land, and I took the bags to my home. Police came asking if I saw anything and I showed them the bags, but I had nothing to do with it.
What they meant to say was that Hassan got cute and didn’t give the Syrian police their cut for this shipment, so we gave him a slap on the wrist as an example to show the Turkish smugglers like Ahmed who tried to smuggle 1/4 ton through Syria without giving the Syrian police a cut they will get life. 😂
My man was doing 3,000$ a day 💉 business, that’s like 30,000 in todays market 3-23 !!
60k, 50 years from now
Sollozzo has the Fields in Turkey, where they Grow the Poppy. In Sicily, He has the Plants where they Process them into Heroin.....
“There’s a lotta money in that white powder.”
GFIII
Special Report 2021 Afghanistan produces it now...wonder why we don't want to leave? 20 years & counting
During the Vietnam War heroin was produced in Southeast Asia. The CIA had rice farmers start growing poppy, and they even built an opium refinery there. The U.S. government is the biggest drug cartel in the world.
It’s not even heroin anymore, it’s fentynal from China.
Maybe the fields dried up. You can't rotate your crops when you've only got one crop.
@Sahin Ozturk through the East India company they took it over and used it for there nefarious ways
That's how they fund terrorism
Well put
Pretty slick exchanging an icream pop for a bag of dope !!
The term "French Connection" is a misnomer. Corsica is inhabited by men of Italian nationality though it is under the French flag (Napolian). That is why the alliance with Sicilians and the Italian-Americans was so smooth. Just check the surnames of Corsicans who were part of that crew.
@@johnnyjacuzzi7498 oh snap! Monaco?
1- Corsicans are neither French nor Italian, they are CORSICA!
2- the "Corsican mafia" to be part of it, you have to be Corsican, or have family ties in Corsica.
3- the gangsters of Marseille and the south of France are not necessarily Corsicans.
4- the organization of the "Corsican mafia" is closer to the camorra than to cosa nostra.
True but not all the French Connection guy's were Corsican. Some were French of other ethnicity. But most were.
Great old school footage #goodjob
I appreciate the work and truths in this documentary. Lots of secrets very old but no less potent. Talking about opium transported through Syria. I wonder if these routes are still in use ?
Love this well done ❤
Thanks for sharing! :)
I always planned on doing heroine once I made my first record (music). Thank goodness I never followed through on that one..
"yay i'm succesful, now I'll throw it all away!"
You must have been out of your mind thinking like that. It's like being alone and bored and saying let me get in this quicksand to see how it feels. Dumb
@@carmendiaz4455 how can you know until you try.. (just look at the ones before you..) I do get it now but as a young on your own youth.. paths wind through hell sometimes... guide your children if you can.
@Matthew Hodge on a painfilled probable death im thinking 🤔. Cheers.
@@carmendiaz4455 wanna go to the beach. Or how about a beach in...well..how about ITALY.. Lets roll
Documentario bellissimo!!!! congratulazioni per il contenuto 💪🔝💪🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🇮🇹👑🙏salute
I wanna know who the guy at 40:48 is
Bumpy Johnson
“Here’s heroin as a white powder, addicts usually liquify it and inject it….I’ll be right back I have to uh use the restroom.”
God damn... The Pusher.
Nuts that they had an open air smack market... crazy times
Man, that existed until the late 1990s. Once cell phones became more prevalent, that thinned it out somewhat. The LES in NYC was even more notorious than Harlem for heroin. And spots like Newark, NJ and Paterson NJ.... you'd pull up and your car would be SWARMED by dealers and theyd be literally dropping bags of dope in your lap trying to get the sale.
😂
Still happening today.
Just look at Kensington in Philadelphia.😢
Cosa Nostra in general, Charlie Lucky, and the Bonannos in particular.
I wonder how the " pushers" learned how to smuggle and bought shipping comanies and planes and kabs
Pushers don’t smuggle, they push.
@@honved1 huh? Are you serious?
@@bobbybright9334 smugglers smuggle, pushers push.
@@honved1 smugglers smuggle for who?
@@honved1 and smuggle to do what?
30:55 blink if you’re being held hostage 😂😢
"Business is business."
Fast forward to today and Heroin is still being sold on that corner.
Based on the thumbnail, I clicked on this thinking it was an Abbott & Costello movie. But, it isn't. Can't find my damn glasses. Great content, nonetheless!!
Who was that white boy that had the slicked back hair. He looks like my uncle. I wonder if that is him,
Next thanksgiving, at dinner, just ask him. Or say to him "Hey, Unc, wanna go cop?" If the says "yes" or doesnt answer because he nodded off into his mashed potatoes, theres a good chance it was him. Not sure what you win if you solve this mystery of yours though.
Next thanksgiving, at dinner, just ask him. Or say to him "Hey, Unc, wanna go cop?" If the says "yes" or doesnt answer because he nodded off into his mashed potatoes, theres a good chance it was him. Not sure what you win if you solve this mystery of yours though.
Sad stuff
Does AnYonE recognize that Street in the BEGINNING!???
Heroin withdrawal sounds like pain pill withdrawal. Guess so bc it is same thing
I wonder if that was Bumpy Johnson at about 40m in.
He sounded Caribbean. Was BJ Caribbean.
never did heroin -i hate needles but i used to love to smoke opium , what a beautiful smell
I read William S. Burroughs's _Junky_ and James Mills's _The Panic in Needle Park_ way back in the early '70's when I was still at school and they are two of the most depressing books that I have ever read, interesting and well-written, certainly, but as depressing as bloody hell.
The using junky inhabits an exceedingly narrow, enclosed netherworld, so narrow and enclosed that it is positively claustrophobic. I'm glad that I was never tempted to use narcotics.
Wow. Real Journalism.
This is stupid. That man was doing what his grandfather and his grandfathers had been doing since the Silk Highway. We made it what we have now. Stupid then. Stupid now.
Excellent when news was news and we had real newsmen!!!
$3 bag would be worth close to $25 today, plus I bet the quality would be way purer than the trash knocking around today. ahh the good old day's 😌💯🇬🇧😷
Inflation. 💯 salute
There are still $3 bags in Newark, NJ USA. $5 bags are the norm in most urban drug spots in NYC and NJ, but now its all fentanyl mixed with a TINY BIT of heroin.
Exactly the opposite. A $5 bag of today's fentanyl is over 10x stronger than the french connection heroin.
Today's average fentanyl used won't even buy heroin anymore.
47,000 known narcotic addicts lol
I've done that many bags
Know it's over 2 million..
People spoke cool back then
When you could actually get away with crime and people controlled the rackets
Yea an honor amongst theives
Why it can't be stop!drug
Know the government controls the rackets
That poor baby damn
"You ever pick your feet in poughkeepsie?"
24:13 "Have you ever thought about the connection between the FRENCH UNDERWORLD and the MIDDLE EAST?" 🤣
Good thing "Popeye Doyle" figured it out, huh? LoL...Spoiler alert, it was Fernando Rey the whole time, like c'mon people, duh....🤣
🚨🚔"So, You ever pick your feet in poughkeepsie? We got a witness, You did didn't ya, You picked your feet in poughkeepsie?" 🚔🚨
And all of a sudden heroin doesn't come in this country at all now so I'll fentanyl I haven't seen heroin and years
damn I miss news reports ending in some historical quote..
From David A. Wood: I have to agre
The Stuff Sells itself!!!!!!
No Heroin No War something has to pay for those freedom fighters.
50 years ago today mr. Mojo Risin died in France of a supposed heroin overdose
Who is he if you may enlighten me sounds familiar??
@@eddiemunster4094 Jim Morrison from the doors
Wonder if drugs in that ice cream he is holding.
I noticed no f bombs, good job splicing
I wonder if the dude named Apple, Rich Porter's Uncle.
Have you invesigated your CIA agency you work for? Hmm.. Still in Afghanistan guarding the poppy feilds for 20 yrs hmmm
Does the "CIA" hold a gun to people's head ?
@@helbitkelbit1790 yes they do in other matters but flooding their country with heroin is treason for starters. And im guessing you think thats alright?? They done the same thing with crack cocaine. Via Arkansas mena airport bill clintons town he was governor. Remember the contra scandal??
@@bobbybright9334 Bobby........don't use drugs.....you have nothing to worry about
@@helbitkelbit1790 we all have something to worry about with hard drugs exposed to our young children . that poison destroyes generations of innocent souls and keeps up the prison population for the private corperations who get rich off this and milk our tax dollars so i dont get your pount in all this backing up drug dealers and gonverment who are supposed to protect our countries from this crap. Our governments betray us. While getting rich. Im assuming you dont have any children or know how heroin affects our economy etc. Our intelligence agencies are the real mafia.
@@helbitkelbit1790 and drugs isnt the only thing our intelligence agencies are involved in. Child trafficking is the next money maker thats why theres no "war on child trafficking" no funding for it whatsoever.
Blue magic baby ,64' year I was Born
At 7.39 the guy tells u how to take raw opium n make it to morphine n then make it to herion
You're not going to ever stop it everybody's making money except the users. and there's an unlimited supply of users...
The white junkie auditioned for on the water front but Marlon Brando got the part.