| Wade Agnew probably knows as much about heroin | | | | the 1970’s and 80’s. |
| and the law as anyone. He used it for three decades, | | | | When the Australian Capital Territory Government |
| was a successful heroin trafficker for ten years, and | | | | tried to set up a heroin trial in Canberra; the national |
| has studied the legal status of heroin continually since | | | | capital, to save lives and administer pharmaceutical |
| first discovering the drug at University in the late | | | | heroin to selected long term addicts in a safe and |
| 1960’s. | | | | supervised environment, the Narcotics Control Board |
| “My affair with heroin has been an on-going one. | | | | intervened. The extreme variation in the strength of |
| I fell in love with it the first time I tried it; as a | | | | street heroin is a real problem, and the cause of |
| medicine for what ailed me, it was second to | | | | many overdoses, as is the lack of medical supervision |
| none.” | | | | and intervention when needed. The Board controls |
| The author of the recently released autobiography | | | | the issuing of licenses allowing countries to grow legal |
| “Cheating the Hangman: True Confessions of a | | | | opium for the pharmaceutical industry. They told the |
| Heroin Trafficker” Wade is calling for the | | | | Federal Government in no uncertain terms that it |
| immediate legalization of heroin. Heroin trafficking | | | | risked the Tasmanian opium poppy crop if they |
| gives you a very unique perspective on its status in | | | | allowed this to happen. A compliant and conservative |
| society. The ongoing campaign of denigration is | | | | Federal administration caved in to this blackmail. This |
| orchestrated, widespread and unrelenting. As Goebels | | | | unaccountable organization wields enormous power. |
| said, if you repeat a lie often enough, eventually | | | | Holland has regularly experienced its pressure to |
| people WILL believe it. Wade writes in his book; | | | | repudiate their liberal drug laws, but stands firm in the |
| “With heroin systematically demonized since the | | | | face of on-going attacks. Read more about the legal |
| 20's, it wasn't surprising most thought it evil incarnate, | | | | status of heroin at; |
| an extremely dangerous drug, and a force against all | | | | Also read this sample chapter from the author’s |
| the good in society. But in truth it wasn't toxic for | | | | book; |
| the body, the brain was where the action occurred, | | | | THE GRASS IS GREENER: |
| and it was some smooth operator. They weren't | | | | The Australian heroin market in the 1970’s got a |
| monsters, just in exile from a society they refused | | | | huge leg-up from the Royal Commissions into drugs. |
| to recognize. | | | | State police added the booster rockets. All the |
| The orthodoxy fused notions of anarchy, violence | | | | national attention was now focused on marijuana |
| and Bolshevism, into a hyper-negative highball, now | | | | ignoring the growing heroin culture, a lens sharpened |
| impossible to unhitch the harness. That willful | | | | by the murder of a crusading politician in Griffith, the |
| ignorance was a source of frustration and anger. It | | | | cannabis capital of the country. People wondered |
| imprinted on their self image, colouring their | | | | why so few were being arrested, and nothing |
| interaction with the world. Why were drunks amusing, | | | | confiscated. Were cops benefiting from the grass |
| junkies sinister? They were thought a harbinger of a | | | | trade? Suddenly the heat was on, questions were |
| heinous moral meltdown, a role they took on with | | | | being asked. Why were crops being discovered only |
| relish.” | | | | after the intense press coverage? The speculation |
| Originally set up by a Christian fundamentalist as a | | | | continued apace. |
| vehicle for his moral humbuggery, the | | | | This was all music to the ears of the budding heroin |
| “International Narcotics Control Board” is now | | | | importer. With eyes now on the marijuana trade it |
| entrenched as an instrument of US foreign policy and | | | | went underground, leaving markets open for a drug |
| control, and with the organization in its pocket, the | | | | capable of soothing the nerves of jaded hippies, |
| United States of America uses it as a propaganda | | | | popular, and instantly more effective than years of |
| tool; dictating to the world drug policy that serves | | | | studying at The Happiness Institute. My mission was |
| their agenda and their interests. And make no | | | | delivering forbidden fruit from foreign shores with |
| mistake, it’s a powerful tool. | | | | forensic efficiency, right to your front door. While the |
| This evangelizing does enormous harm to individuals | | | | new medicine was timely, some burning money would |
| around the globe, as well as promoting an illegal trade | | | | get their fingers singed. |
| that fosters and entrenches organized crime, in the | | | | Millions of dollars worth of smoke was seized, while |
| same way that prohibition directly fueled the Mafia in | | | | heroin still reached arms unhindered. My business had |
| 1920’s America; “ignorance on an industrial | | | | quadrupled in six months, so I was well aware it was |
| scale”. Making heroin illegal robs the medical | | | | cannibalizing the drug trade. Foisted on cannabis |
| community of the number one pain killer on the | | | | smokers, the drought entrenched a corrupt system |
| planet, and criminalizes those who choose to use it. | | | | with an avalanche of white-powder cash. |
| This is something that the author knows from | | | | But the grass was always greener…. |
| personal experience, as a successful drug trafficker in | | | | |