YOUR SAYWhat can be done to help erradicate illicit drugs in the world? While the US pour billions into Afghan counter narcotics programs, the latest UN report reveals the illicit drug trade has earned $4 billion every year.
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I was thinking if you made beer/wine free people wouldn`t need to use illicit drug`s,I mean why would you when you could get all the drink you wanted for nothing?It would be perfect.
Erradication can only come about by a decrease in demand and let's face it - that ain't gonna happen!
I think the basic drive of your question is false,that is that the world would be a better place without drug`s deemed illicit.
john micheal heiser from milwaukee wisconsin USA It will never happen,the state enjoy`s playing cops
All drugs must be legalized. This would include growing the organic ones. The more dangerous drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, tobacco, alcohol, and many of the pharmaceuticals, could be dispersed for free, or a nominal sum, at clinics, perhaps run by the host country, or by the WHO. This would take almost all profit out of the drug trade, troubled individuals could be identified and given the opportunity to be helped, and more importantly three things would occur:children would not grow up thinking the can get rich in the drug trade, many people would not find themselves as sex workers,being humiliated and getting and passing on diseases,and finally, the drug trade would find it extremely difficult to fund any sort of violence, be it street corner, all the way up to regional conflicts. Take the $ out of drugs.
probably lead by example,by banning alcohol.
What can be done to help eradicate illicit drugs in the world?;realistically nothing.
Opium continues to be run by the Western Intelligence Services for the benefit of the large and powerful financial institutions just like the British were in the famous "opium wars" with China. Do people seriously beleive the mighty war making power of the United States and NATO could not eradicate the opium fields in a New York second? Afghan opium churns out 200 billion a year to the banking world of London and New York. How can people still be so nieve in this day and age?
Illicit drugs will never be eradicated, nor should they be. I wish people could be informed enough to be allowed to choose for themselves which drugs may or may not be beneficial to them. Drugs are a tool for humanity provided by nature, and it is foolish to think they can ever be eradicated. btw, everyone seems to forget that prior to the US-led invasion of Afghanastan the Taliban had outlawed and greatly reduced the amount of opium cultivated there. It is only since the invasion that conditions have allowed production to resume and increase dramatically, so that once again cheap strong herion is making it to our streets and killing our people.
The Taliban are funding their war with Opium, the US is funding its war with alcohol