CIA: Crack Importing Agency Or How The US Government Started The Crack Trade
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For the past decade and a half, the US government has sponsored the “War on
Drugs.” This has been a massive law enforcement effort aimed at stamping out the flow
and use of illegal narcotics. The main focus of this effort has been aimed at a relatively
new, yet extremely potent drug - crack. However, this massive crackdown is much more
than a simple effort aimed at protecting US citizens. Rather, it is instead a case of the
federal government’s trying to undo its own massive blunder. For much of the 1980’s the
federal government was involved in the sale and distribution of crack. At the very least,
they simply turned a blind eye towards the problem. At the worst - and what is the most
likely possibility - the government condoned and facilitated the crack trade in the United
States. All of it was done...