Does the goverment sell drugs? (illegal ones...)?

Question

my uncle was in vietnam, he and his war buddies used to tell me about how they were given drugs for free any kind they wanted.....If they did then, why not now?

Answer 1

Heroin was big in veitnam. Nixon actually tried to rufuse any drug addicts or soldiers who have done the drug back to the states, and leave them in Vietnam.

Answer 2

President Hamid Karzai, of Afghanistan and his brothers are arguably the largest heroin smugglers in the world. Karzai was a buddy of Cheyney, in Huston before the war. He has Blackwater Mercenaries to protect him from his Afghan Security Forces.

Although I did two tours in Vietnam and think your uncle needs a bigger shovel

Answer 3

There have been several situations where the US Govt, ( often thru the CIA) was caught importing drugs to fund their operations, the whole Col. Oliver North thing was about the CIA importing Coke to the US to pay for black ops, North said he was working on the president's orders, Regan replied that he " didn't remember that" , and was later diagnosed with Alzheimers disease. so it very well may have been true.

Answer 4

I don't know about major gov't organizations, like the fbi, or cia, but in many state law enforcement agencies, aka- cops, they typically dont sell the drugs. rather, they buy the drugs, not sell. cops want to catch and cut off the source of the drugs, not the users.

Answer 5

The black market was big in Vietnam. If you had something I want we trade for something you want. No cash trades hands.