Since this is pretty much the most open blog when it comes to discussing issues of drug abuse and addiction I guess it's only normal to bring to light an ongoing underground crisis that most people would never notice. But that's of course if you consider that most Egyptians are not Hash smokers.
In the past week there has been a complete shut down of the Hash markets in Egypt. After Heroin's hay day about 5 years ago (kind of when I started blogging) we reached a level where one gram of heroin cost less (60LE - 80LE) than a "coin" (around 2 grams) of hash which cost 100LE.
After this time we started reading about massive Heroin busts in the papers and we had a period of what seemed like the government was combatting Heroin. As far as I know Heroin sale was successfully reduced and treatment and rehab got considerable attention from the media and the public. Concurrently we sensed a flexibility in Hash sale and it's demand went up, while its price went down making it extremely widespread.
But last week something happened. The market completely shut down. Hash disappeared and after the news of monthly busts never exceeding 30 to 60 tons people started hearing of multiple busts of hundreds of tons within just a few days. Hash addicts are frustrated and a lot of them are resorting to the newly re-emerging Bango which is a lot cheaper but has a much higher cost in terms of brain cells.
Bango was extremely common in the 1990's - remember Sha'abolla? El wad kareem wel wad lango? fi koll share3 aw 7etta? A lot of us remember how stupid it made everyone, some people irreversibly too.
What I care about the most is why the sudden drug policy change? We all know that keeping the youth high is not a coincidence. We all know the policy was in place for a reason. My question is why now? is it to bring back BANGO - the Egyptian weed that is correlated with laziness, low cost and low IQ's? OR is to to wake up the stoner population of Egypt? Which in my view is a considerable interest group... or is it to emphasize on the Interior Ministry showing 'WHO'S BOSS'? one more time before the parliamentary and presidential elections? Either way I believe that this is interesting because it does signify a shift. It's not clear until now to what exactly or why but at least we know that we'll find out soon.
I personally do NOT have a good feeling about this. Whatever the reasons behind it may be. I have a bad feeling about the coming period as a whole. I'm sorry I'm not more optimistic. I think we should all think verrry carefully about who we trust these days. Mayhem shall cometh.
WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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In the past week there has been a complete shut down of the Hash markets in Egypt. After Heroin's hay day about 5 years ago (kind of when I started blogging) we reached a level where one gram of heroin cost less (60LE - 80LE) than a "coin" (around 2 grams) of hash which cost 100LE.
After this time we started reading about massive Heroin busts in the papers and we had a period of what seemed like the government was combatting Heroin. As far as I know Heroin sale was successfully reduced and treatment and rehab got considerable attention from the media and the public. Concurrently we sensed a flexibility in Hash sale and it's demand went up, while its price went down making it extremely widespread.
But last week something happened. The market completely shut down. Hash disappeared and after the news of monthly busts never exceeding 30 to 60 tons people started hearing of multiple busts of hundreds of tons within just a few days. Hash addicts are frustrated and a lot of them are resorting to the newly re-emerging Bango which is a lot cheaper but has a much higher cost in terms of brain cells.
Bango was extremely common in the 1990's - remember Sha'abolla? El wad kareem wel wad lango? fi koll share3 aw 7etta? A lot of us remember how stupid it made everyone, some people irreversibly too.
What I care about the most is why the sudden drug policy change? We all know that keeping the youth high is not a coincidence. We all know the policy was in place for a reason. My question is why now? is it to bring back BANGO - the Egyptian weed that is correlated with laziness, low cost and low IQ's? OR is to to wake up the stoner population of Egypt? Which in my view is a considerable interest group... or is it to emphasize on the Interior Ministry showing 'WHO'S BOSS'? one more time before the parliamentary and presidential elections? Either way I believe that this is interesting because it does signify a shift. It's not clear until now to what exactly or why but at least we know that we'll find out soon.
I personally do NOT have a good feeling about this. Whatever the reasons behind it may be. I have a bad feeling about the coming period as a whole. I'm sorry I'm not more optimistic. I think we should all think verrry carefully about who we trust these days. Mayhem shall cometh.
WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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