Having looked at the damage that the illegality of drugs causes in importing countries, and compared the relative size of the global oil and illegal drugs industries, let's finish off today's trilogy by comparing petro-states with narco-states.
At the risk of generalising here, petro-states with a relatively benevolent government (Norway, Brunei, Dubai) have a relatively high standard of living; narco-states (Afghanistan, Colombia) face eternal civil war and have a terrible standard of living. Poppies and coca plants are perfectly ordinary agricultural products, there is no inherent reason why narco-states should be any more violent or any poorer than other agricultural economies, so it must be the illegality that makes all the difference.
If the West finally woke up to its senses and legalised drugs, then it might well solve a lot of problems in narco-states as well.
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Do you really think that people could handle freely available cocaine products? That they would use reason and sense?
Or would they end up , not in jail, but on welfare. which is just as costly to the state.
Most people, yes. Some not. Like booze.
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