In the four Andean countries where coca bushes grow and where coca leaves have been part of the life of the people for centuries illegal cocaine has become a dominant feature of economic and political life.

The coca bush resembles a western european blackthorn growing about six foot high. The bushes were cultivated and the leaves widely chewed by Andean Indians for two millenia before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century.

It is not going too far to say that the pre-Andean civilisation would have been unsustainable at that elevation without the use of coca leaves. Unique amongst most civilisations the Incas habitually used a drug which was of course the coca leaf which formed a central feature of pre-Inca Ameri-Indian life in classical times.

To the Inca coca was the most important of all the plants available to them at the time and to those who had the right to chew coca leaves developed an extraordinary ability to survive a shortage of oxygen that would disable other people.

Coca leaves not only appeased hunger, prevented drowsiness, increased acuity and decreased muscular exertion but masticating coca leaves increased the pulse rate.

The result of the mines of Potosi was to pour cheap silver into Europe in great quantities. The increase in monetary silver and gold (gold in this case from the east) financed the post Renaissance trade expansion which made much of northwest Europe a boom area for merchants and consumers.

As with coca, unrefined opium was used for a millenium and chewed and smoked and is and was mildly addictive. Opium was concentrated as laudanum in 1670s and became morphia in 1817. The consequences of the refining was that it attracted and ruined consumers who would otherwise have led happy and useful lives if only crude opium had been available.

The European for no other reason than for capital gain ruined the peaceful use of the coca leaf and the opium poppy and turned benevolent natural plants into a source of dangerous modern drugs.

The yield of concentrated unrefined alkaloids distilled from an infusion of the coca leaves is about l per cent of the dry matter of the harvested leaves, which yield nearly two tons per hectare. The refining process will yield about l5 kilograms per hectare per annum of 100 per cent concentrate pure powdered cocaine.

Cocaine was first used as a local anthaesthetic a century ago. The plant Erythroxylon was then called by its Indian name Cuca and the concentrate cocaine was not in wide use.

There were however, a few cocaine users who were experimenting. One of these was Sigmund Freud in 1884 who, when he was twenty eight, first used the drug on himself then on his patients and his claim that it was non-addictive had important consequences. He proceeded to take cocaine for three years from 1884 - 1887 and supplied it to patients, fellow doctors and students at Vienna University.

In 1885 a German authority on morphine addiction, Erlenmeyer, first identified the use of the drug as dangerous and as addictive as heroin.

One of the indications of cocaine abuse is "formication ", i.e. the sensation of ants crawling under the skin. Significantly Sigmund Freud had at the end of his life in 1938 in London an irritation on his wrists which he scratched continuously.

Cocaine became for all practical purposes illegal in the United States after the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914, but by mistake cocaine - for socio -political not chemical reasons - was placed in the same category as opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin and most other countries continued the illusion that opium and cocaine had similar effects.

Jewish involvement in drugs

It should come as no surprise that a great many of the drug money launderers and drug rings worldwide are run by Rabbis and religious Jews, (i.e. Talmudic Jews) because it is the Talmud itself that teaches that wrongdoing against a Gentile is no crime.

In Mishna Sanhedryn 57 it says:

"Thou shalt not do injury to your neighbour, but it is not said, 'Thou shalt not do injury to a goy.'"

"A jew may rob a goy - that is, he may cheat him in a bill, if unlikely to be perceived by him." (Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 28, Art. 3 and 4.)

"All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general." (Schultchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat).

Today's drug dealing is probably the world's most profitable crime. Profit margins range from 200% for cocaine to 1,200% for heroin. The Columbia International Drug cartel, Kali, which monopolises the trade in Los Angeles and Miami is estimated to distribute 80% of the world's cocaine and a third of its heroin.

Little known and little publicised in America is the fact that the so-called "Russian" Mafia is in reality Jewish and orthodox religious and Israeli business networks linked to drug cartels have been instrumental in maintaining the United States's drug problem. Many of these criminals are particularly pious Jews and a number of orthodox Jewish religious institutions have been used for the laundering of literally hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money.

An important foundation of the old opium trade was the Jewish Sassoon family. Born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Baghdad, Iraq, they set up the Sassoon Company in India in 1833. At that time about one-fifth of all opium brought into China was shipped in the Sassoon fleet.

Another Jewish family connected with the opium trade were the Delanos, ancestors of Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.

The first major American drug dealer was probably Arnold Rothstein. In the mid-nineteenth century, when the government started to ban certain narcotics, drugs were smuggled in from Europe and the Far East.

Beginning with Rothstein American Jewish underworld figures became prominently involved in smuggling and distributing opium and opiates in the United States using Jewish religious institutions such as the Yeshivas and synagogues to launder the drug money.

US Federal Agents have identified "the Cocaine Triangle" as : Columbian drug barons, Israeli money launderers and Jewish Mafiosos. A look at the list of indictments shows the enormous involvement of the Israelis in the field.

The CIA's involvement in the Drug trade goes way back (keeping in mind who exactly controls the CIA, i.e. the Israeli Mossad) .

In 1947 - 1951 in France the CIA arms, money and disinformation enabled the criminal "Corsican" syndicate in Marseilles, undoubtedly Jewish, to wrestle control of labour unions from the Communist party. The "Corsicans" then turned Marseilles into the heroin capital of the western world.

In the early 1950s in south-east Asia, the nationalist Chinese army, organised by the CIA to wage war against communist China, became the opium barons of the Golden Triangle, i.e. Burma, Thailand, and Laos, the world's largest source of opium and heroin.

Air America, the CIA's principal air line, flew the drugs all over south-east Asia.

1950s - early 1970s - Indo-China. During US military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indo-China, Air America flew opium throughout the area. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin.

After a decade of american military intervention, South-east Asia had become the source of 70% of the world's illicit opium and the major supplier of raw materials for America's booming heroin market.

1973 - 1980 - Australia : The Nugan Hand Bank of Sydney was a CIA bank in all but name with branches in Saudi Arabia, Europe, South-East Asia, South America and the United States. Nugan Hand bank financed drug trafficking, money laundering and international arms deals. In 1980 the bank collapsed.

1970 - 1980s - Panama. For more than a decade Panamanian strong man, Manuel Noriega, was a highly-paid CIA asset and collaborator, heavily involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. The US government turned against Noriega, invading Panama in December 1989. Ironically drug trafficking increased after the American invasion.

1980 - Central America - interwoven operations linking the CIA, the Contras and the cocaine cartels.

In 1989 a three-year investigation stated:

"There was substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zone on the part of individual Contra suppliers throughout the region. Senior US policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was the perfect solution to funding the Contras.

1980 to early 1990s - Afghanistan : the CIA supported the Mujahedeen and engaged heavily in drug trafficking. The Agency's principal client was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar one of the leading drug lords and a leading heroin refiner. The CIA supplied trucks and mules that carried arms to Afghanistan which were used to transport opium to laboratories on the Afghan/Pakistan border.

mid 1980s - early 1990s : Haiti. The CIA turned a blind eye to their clients' drug trafficking. The trade aided and abetted by some of Haitian military and political leaders.

The FBI and other police agencies in America recognise the threat posed by the "Organizatsiya", or "Russian" Mafia as the media insists on calling it, to prevent mention of its Jewish nature, in money laundering, drugs, gambling, slave trade, child prostitution, illegal weapons dealing, organised car theft, insurance fraud, securities frauds, etc., in all of which they are involved. Very little is being done to stop them. They all carry Israeli passports and catch the next plane to Israel if they are in danger of arrest, where they are safe from extradition.

The most substantial shield for this Jewish Mafia is corruption. A politician in their pockets has very little worry that he will ever see a headline in any Jewish newspaper accusing him of taking bribes." (unless of course he steps out of line).

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