Baltimore society has gone insane, literally

In Baltimore, it’s not even front page news.  On Tuesday, July 2, 2013, the staggering stats of 36 people shot and 16 dead in one week only made it to the page 4 “Around the Region” section, the Baltimore Sun.; By Wednesday morning, that number had jumped to 40 shot and 18 dead making Baltimore one of the most violent cities in the country.  WBAL-tv reported that after factoring in population, Baltimore, Maryland is 10-times more violent than New York City. Crime Blog

This makes Baltimore worse than Oakland? Yet another case of a society unable to control the insanity of their own members. Perhaps mass insanity has come upon us via some chemical agent, perhaps methamphetamine?

This might be the case. We often assume it is black culture, but North Korea is an insane society, and we find this tidbit:

A new study published in the journal North Korea Review says that parts of North Korea are experiencing a crystal meth “epidemic,” with an “upsurge” of recreational meth use and accompanying addiction in the country’s northern provinces.
“Almost every adult in that area [of North Korea] has experienced using ice and not just once,” a study co-author told the Wall Street Journal. “I estimate that at least 40% to 50% are seriously addicted to the drug.” WA Post

Those addiction numbers are informal, but a detailed study does show a very worrisome problem with meth addiction. The drug does in fact cause nearly permanent insanity. In Fresno, meth heads are responsible for nearly 60-80% of crime. But more worrisome, what are we going to do when the little midget dictator over there gets hooked, and becomes insane? ere is this report:

In The Wilson Quarterly an article “Jumped up in Pyongyang” explains that the desperate need for hard currency influenced the North Korean regime to begin mass producing methamphetamines (crystal meth) and other counterfeit forms of drugs such as Viagra. At first crystal meth use among North Koreans was extremely rare since it was prohibitively expensive and the drug of choice was usually opium. Originally all the methamphetamines in North Korea were manufactured in state-owned factories but in the early 2000s the government abruptly closed many of the drug factories and made many scientists, technicians, and factory workers jobless. Some of the few entrepreneurs in the country recognized the opportunities presented and began to fund the private production of the crystal meth. Communist party officials were the first to experiment with the new supplies of inexpensive crystal meth but the use of the extremely potent and addictive methamphetamines quickly spread to other segments of North Korean society with the border areas next to China experiencing the greatest increase in drug abuse The Wilson Quarterly.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/356912#ixzz2d1TVnDaw

Tiny dictators doing the stupid.

But African Americans are not stupid tiny dictators, as of 2004:

Race/ethnicity: The largest numbers methamphetamine users are white. However, the highest rates of methamphetamine use during the past year were those for Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders (2.2%), American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.7%), and person who reported 2 or more races (1.9%). Past-year use among whites (0.7%) and Hispanics (0.5%) was higher than among blacks (including African Americans) (0.2%). 4. CDC

New data might change the stats but has not yet surfaced. Ten years from the last study is a long time.