La Vie Noire
The Black Life
A veteran from WWII goes to live back in Chicago. Unemployed, he takes to the opium trade.
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A veteran from WWII goes to live back in Chicago. Unemployed, he takes to the opium trade.
Credit: Kevin To
Copyright: Kevin To
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Post a Commentcont'd: (known then as "M", "13" and by other names,)and had the benefit of being odorless, and undetectable by smell of men or animals, unlike morphine , marijuana or much later, cocaine and "home brew" amphetamine.
The only opium like substance ever to make an inroad in the US has been cheap, high morphine content, "black tar",mostly in the West and South, which is another form of raw morphine. The producers cannot get the requisite processing chemicals to manufacture proper, pure "white" heroin similar to the stuff available in NYC during the 1950's through 1972-3. After this period, Turkey, until then the main source of opium for Corsican mafia heroin production, was eliminated by treaty between the US and the Turks, in exchange for money and guns as well as America's looking the other way when the Turkish generals imposed martial law.
A "panic" of previously unknown proportions sent hundreds of thousand
I can't figure out what this video is about. There was NEVER an illicit "opium" trade in the US. What narcotics were sold after World War II either government surplus syrettes of morphine, made by the hundreds of millions, for the expected invasion of Japan which, thank God and US, British and European Scientists inventing and our using the atomic bombs, was made unnecessary. As a result,millions of these now "useless",single shot quarter or half grain syrettes in boxes, were being used all over the mid-Wests' shipping ports as boxes for shoe shine boys and the syrettes were dumped mostly as garbage. Most Americans liked hard liquor-not morphine.. There were not many addicts, then.
Heroin , which was from France, did not make a big splash in America until the syrettes were nearly gone,(mostly destroyed in huge garbage processing machines and thus poisoning fish stocks all around .
Heroin is more powerful than morphine,(known then as "M", &qu
I can't figure out what this video is about. There was NEVER an illicit "opium" trade in the US. What narcotics were sold after World War II either government surplus syrettes of morphine, made by the hundreds of millions, for the expected invasion of Japan which, thank God and US, British and European Scientists inventing and our using the atomic bombs, was made unnecessary. As a result,millions of these now "useless",single shot quarter or half grain syrettes in boxes, were being used all over the mid-Wests' shipping ports as boxes for shoe shine boys and the syrettes were dumped mostly as garbage. Most Americans liked hard liquor-not morphine.. There were not many addicts, then.
Heroin , which was from France, did not make a big splash in America until the syrettes were nearly gone,(mostly destroyed in huge garbage processing machines and thus poisoning fish stocks all around .
Heroin is more powerful than morphine,(known then as "M", &qu