Cocaine Production Record Set: Poem by Coletha Albert

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cocaine-production-is-at-its-highest-level-on-record-un-says/ar-AA18IdzK?cvid=42af723654d247a58136dea44292e55f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarmouseenter&ei=17

Weeks ago there was a

Cocaine bear

His product

His situation

Fell from the air

Now there’s a record

That has been set

Whose doing the counting?

Who’s getting whet?

This type of news

Doesn’t make me upset

—–It’s telling me that people are no longer using cocaine.

Too much production

Means drop in prices

Can cocaine rot

Like wheat and pot?

https://thewholeportion.com/can-cocaine-go-bad/

I guess not

Over time it

Becomes simple

White powder.

—-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Bear

Just this week, Spanish authorities found what they said was an empty drug submarine off of Spain’s north coast near Galicia, which is known to be a hub in the international drug trade. They believe it was transporting cocaine from Colombia to Spain, and that the crew had already made off with the submarine’s contents.
MSN.com

The Hitz report gives an abundance of anecdotal evidence showing that drugs were low on the list of intelligence priorities in the Contra war. It shows that allegation after allegation were either partially investigated or not investigated at all.

To this day, Fred Hitz denies that the CIA had any intentional ties to drug trafficking. But he also admits that the Agency in many cases took a rain check on specifically addressing narcotics activity within its allies’ ranks.

Some say that’s expected when fighting ideological wars in countries where drugs have historically fueled not only conflict, but entire economies as well.

“You’re always going to be having drug traffickers, gun runners, people who are alien smugglers … as some of the kinds of people that you’re going to be relying on to carry out a covert war,” Winer observes. “And that’s true of any government anywhere–whether you’re talking Afghanistan, Colombia, Southeast Asia, Burma. Your operatives tend to be people who are involved in other illicit activities. These things tend to go together.”

If you put aside conspiracy theories of crack peddling, that still leaves the question of why the Agency has repeatedly found itself associated with drug traffickers.

To add to the list of theories and speculations, Fred Hitz has his own.

“I would call them bureaucratically challenged,” Hitz said. “(The CIA) didn’t get it done. Having studied the agency over a period of eight years and the bureaucracy that is involved, it grieves me but doesn’t surprise me that nobody grasped the nettle and got the right information to the field.”

“No conspiracy,” he said. “That’s ineptitude. Yes, there are lots of things going on. There is congressional testimony. There are crises in other parts of the world. There are things that are keeping the individuals who write these regulations busy; but that’s no excuse. You’ve got to get to it.”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html

⁵In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,

“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”^[a]

⁶Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. ⁷Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

⁸Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. ⁹Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

¹⁰And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1 Peter 5:5-10 New International Version