Why is the DEA teaching people how to make heroin?

This title isn’t clickbait.

The government organization that has been entrusted with keeping drugs off our streets has detailed instructions online, that anyone can access, detailing how to grow opium, isolate the active alkaloids in it, and then convert those into pure heroin.

This would be humorous if they weren’t locking people up as we speak for growing their own pot. Not to mention that it’s incredibly irresponsible and hypocritical for them to be hosting instructions such as these on our tax dollars.

Which brings us full circle back to one, very pressing question:

Why are we paying our government to teach people how to break the laws that they made?

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m becoming very tired of carrying the burden of an overblown, overfunded, and largely ineffective law enforcement system. I don’t know about you, but I don’t support or condone government for its own sake. These days, something like $0.40 of every dollar is the tax collector’s share. Our forefathers fought the largest military power in the world at the time due to a three percent tax.  What happened to that American spirit? Why are we just letting them do this?

The government derives its power from the People. They don’t enrich us. They are a burden to us and everything we work for. I’m not suggesting that we don’t need some form of government. I am suggesting, however, that at current rates, our government is unsustainable. President Reagan said that during his presidency, and since then, it has only gotten larger.

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