{"id":9010,"date":"2010-02-16T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/deaths-from-black-tar-heroin\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:59:00","slug":"deaths-from-black-tar-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/deaths-from-black-tar-heroin.php","title":{"rendered":"Deaths from Black Tar Heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever media stories report a surge of deaths from heroin use, it turns out that more potent heroin has recently arrived in a particular city or town.  For example, a recent L.A. Times headline reads<\/p>

Black tar moves in, and death follows<\/p><\/blockquote>

and the story<\/a> goes on to explain that<\/p>

The death was part of a rash of overdoses, 12 of them fatal, that shook Huntington that fall and winter. All were caused by black-tar heroin, a potent, inexpensive, semi-processed form of the drug that has spread across the United States, driven by the entrepreneurial energy and marketing savvy of immigrants from a tiny farming county in Mexico.<\/p><\/blockquote>

These deaths are due to prohibition.  In a legal market, information about potency would be readily available, so few users would suffer these accidental overdoses.<\/p>

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