Recently, the U.S. Coast Guard seized a submarine carrying nine tons of cocaine with a street value of $239 million. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t think that building a wall is going to solve America’s love and lust for drugs both legal and illegal.
On Sunday, the California Black Women’s Collective (CBWC), a coalition of women from different professional backgrounds, issued a statement responding to remarks Gov. Gavin Newsom made to NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”
108,000 dead Americans. One hundred and eight thousand. It looks like a COVID-19 tally. But it isn’t. That’s how many men, women and children died from drugs last year in the United States, per the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control. This marks a 15% jump from 2020’s already-too-high body count, and represents the first time deaths have eclipsed six figures in a calendar year.
By the late 1970s, drug traffickers were shipping so much cocaine to the United States that the street price of the powdered stimulant dealers cook to make crack – the smokable rock form of the stimulant – dropped by nearly 80 percent, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).