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Cocaine Production Plummets After DEA Kicked Out Of Bolivia
Submitted by John Vibes via TheAntiMedia.org,
After the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was kicked out of Bolivia, the country was able to drastically reduce the amount of coca (cocaine) produced within its borders. According to data released by the United Nations, cocaine production in the country declined by 11% in the past year, marking the fourth year in a row of steady decrease.
It was just seven years ago that the DEA left Bolivia — and only three years after that, progress was finally made. The strategy employed by the Bolivian government may be a surprise to many prohibitionists because it did not involve any strong-arm police state tactics. Instead, they worked to find alternative crops for farmers to grow that would actually make them more money.
“Bolivia has adopted a policy based on dialogue, where coca cultivation is allowed in traditional areas alongside alternative development [in others],” Antonino de Leo, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s representative in Bolivia, told VICE News.
“It’s not only about making money off a crop. In the old fashioned alternative development approach, we substitute one illicit crop for a licit crop. It’s about a more comprehensive approach that includes access to essential services like schools, hospitals, and roads in areas that traditionally have been hard to reach,” Leo added.
There are unfortunately still harsh laws against drug trafficking in Bolivia, but these have been active since the height of the drug war and have had no effect on the recent decline in production. Bolivian president, Evo Morales — a former coca farmer himself — has been less heavy handed since the DEA left the country, a move that allowed the government to develop alternatives for the struggling farmers instead.
The drug war is one of the most misunderstood subjects in mainstream political discourse, even among people who are sympathetic to the plight of responsible drug users. It is rare for someone to come out and say that all drugs should be legal, but in all honesty, this is the only logically consistent stance on the issue. To say that some drugs should be legal while others should not is still giving credence to the punishment paradigm and overlooking the external consequences of drug prohibition — or prohibition of any object, for that matter.
As I explained in an earlier article, there are many external factors that are affected by the drug war that many people don’t take into account. That is because when you carry out acts of violence, even in the form of punishment, you then create a ripple effect that extends far beyond the bounds of the original circumstance to affect many innocent people down the line. The list in my previous article delves into those external factors to illustrate how drug users and non-users alike would be a lot better off if prohibition ended immediately.
The list includes the following advantages of full legalization:
(1) Reduce violent crime
(2) Improve seller accountability and drug safety
(3) Reduce drug availability to children
(4) Reduce nonviolent prisoner population
(5) Real crime can be dealt with
(6) Encourage genuine treatment for addicts
(7) Prevent drug overdoses
(8) Protect individual rights
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Wait what?
Drug Evasion Agengy
The government approved protection and Intel agency for select drug cartels.
"Instead, the US politicians worked to find alternative wars for government agencies to grow that would actually make them more money."
There, that reads much better now......
Thank god for the war on terror because the war on drugs was getting a bit long in the tooth.
<= This is my shocked face.
"Cocain is a hell-uv-a drug"
Rick James
Just imagine what would happen if the USSA was kicked out of Afghanistan. Opium prices would skyrocket!
The Deep State has to make up this short fall. What are some viable revenue substitutes? Take out life insurance polices on agitators
and let the "accidents" kill two birds with one stone.
After the DEA and SS left I read their Hookers out of a job soared.
The "War on Drugs" is an artifact of the neocon takeover. We know better than you what's good for you. You will do as we say or we will kill you, put you in jail, take you property, etc.
Neoconism is the thing which we must eradicate. It loves power, war, control, greed. It means that "smart people make decisions", just like Cantor said. The MIC loves neoconism. The socialists love neoconism. Corporatists love neoconism.
The "boot on the face of humanity, forever" is neoconism.
Krystol, Wolfowitz, CHENEY, the Bushes, the Clintons, the spokespeople (Krauthammer, Sabato), et al., plus all the minion wannabees.
"legalize" ugh, look, the elites are about to poison all the drugs and that is why they need to control their distribution.
They already are poison, and I for one am OK with them killing off the drug users one fine day.
I've been a heavy drug user/addict in the past, and I've known a lot of people like me. It's rare to find a person who's bad simply because of drugs. Bad people use them, to be sure, but they were usually bad people before they started.
"It is rare for someone to come out and say that all drugs should be legal, but in all honesty, this is the only logically consistent stance on the issue."
I have been trying to tell people this for twenty years. They always think that this is "too extreme". My God, if what we've had in the drug war - destroyed individuals, communities, families, children... - is not extreme, I don't know what is. Sometimes, the absolute solution is actually the correct one. This is one of those times. Absolutely all drugs should be unregulated by the government, and money should instead be dedicated to treating the causes of addiction in the first place: broken people. Broken people use drugs. Fix the people, and the drug problems will diminish as much as humanly possible. There will always be drugs and there will always be drug users, just as there always have. But fixing the causes of addiction is a far more efficient way to limit the damage than the current violent punishment method.
Ah, but that will negatively impact the prison-industrial complex... as a species, we are really pathetic sometimes.
What does the DEA need Bolivia for, they own Colombia. Both Clinton and Obama are "candy-noses". Fear not, the supply is in great shape and interdiction is something like less than 5%. Go back to sleep, or better yet, let's do another line!
The secret to avoiding a cocaine addiction:
DO NOT DO THE FIRST LINE.
That's it. It's that simple. Trust me, I know, the lab rats know. Failure to do the previous will lead to doing cocaine to the exclusion of everything else.
DO NOT DO THE FIRST LINE.
I wonder what the Cocaine Import Agency - oops I mean CIA would do if someone parked a cruise ship under a Panamanian flag just off the coast of Los Angeles where <all drugs are legal> and offered cruise packages..
The IRS would rape them and eat them. The sisters, (IRS, CIA,NSA, DOJ, EPA, FBI), hate competition.
It would be terrible for America!!!!
The number of teenage hookers would drop below the Thai average!!!
Sextourisme would drop and tourisme income would ddop 50%!!!
all America can do now to keep the deficit under control is to legalize drugs....
The war on drugs has failed just like the Fed and the political banking system.
We outnumber them, why do we tolerate so much abuse...?
OH, ÝOU DIDN'T LOSE AT ALL!!!!
AMERICA WON!!! BIGTIME!!!!
Just look at history to understand.
How did the english take control of all of azia?
Opium!
And America is now under total controll of the elite by all the drug you can buy right now!!
And they're getting filthy rich by it!!
And they even used US tax dollars to defeat the competition like escobar!!
"The number of teenage hookers would drop below the Thai average!!!"
craigslist would shut down
And many US doctors would file for bankruptcy!
Here's Rick........... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR_rzF8ofw
"You take Sally, and I'll take Sue,
there ain't much diff-rence between the two.
Coh-cay-ane...runnin' all around my brain"
Jackson Browne
God damn DEA! I was wondering why my last 8-Ball of Yayo was cut to shit.
I get it... Gubment wants to make sure the heroin users get that awesome pure Afghani junk, while running the coke supplies.
I don't care! I'm not gonna start shooting heroin no matter what the CIA or DEA do. Nope. Not gonna do it!
Could always give ole crystal meth a trial run......casual use..of course!
Meth and Heroin are the big boy drugs LOL. My mother's, cousin's, sister's, uncle has done them casually. But he'll tell you it takes a discipline most don't have.
Keith Richards: "I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with Police!"
Be a good little consumer and run the Speedball. Super Soma.
I thought that was a CIA protected racket, or does that only apply to heroine from Afghanistan? Maybe they have reached an understanding separating their jurisdictions. Similar to the Mafia?
Ask a Bush or a Clinton.
Legalize cocaine? Negro please. You have clearly been smoking crack.
WHY is cocaine illegal in the first place?
This kind of shit would have never happened if Bush was still in charge!
yeah, he probably could have doubled production in that time.
Drugs Are bad...You shouldn't do drugs. And if you do drug...mmkay, you're bad.
Actually, you're a patriot in America if you use drugs as it seems you're funding Obama's golf tour when you shoot it up.
So kids: UNCLE SAM WANTS TO YOU RIDE THE DRAGON!
SD, you're a funny motherfucker
WhoCouldaKnowed That the DEA was actually helping drug lords.
Honestly how do people think we've been funding black projects for the last half century?
War on drugs is just an excuse for war on your rights. Everything else is bullshit. Get over it.
except the profit part---markets and suppliers and logistics and money cleaning and stuff---you know--the kind of things gov't monopoly big business is good at.
And they get to spray vast swaths of pristene rainforest with experimental Roundup® cocktails.
Because... "War on Nature".
I'm getting a mixed message from this article. Is it saying the DEA was INVOLVED in manufacturing cocaine? Help me out here.
Yes, it's called 'job security'. You don't see government agencies try to put themselves out of business.
Yes, it's called 'job security'. You don't see government agencies try to put themselves out of business.
NEVER until somebody inside the government with ethics changes it!
"."
"government with ethics"
Wait, what? Where can we find one of those?
The article's a bit of a mess. I don't think they were going that far with it. Just saying they found their own solution once the DEA was kicked out (offering farmers alternate crops that provide higher profits). What these crops are it doesn't say and I have a suspicion the government is probably heavily subsidizing them.
There is also the possibility that they have changed their metrics for measuring the problem.....taken a page from the US economic reporting, as it were...
The DEA methods, from what I gather, are very militaristic. Spraying herbacides, that kills all veg not just coca, releasing experimental fungi to attack it, chopping it down and burning it, raiding rural villages and waving machine guns around. Flying around in blackhawk choppers and humvees. Generally, acting like a rougue military in someone else's country. Then making like the locals should be kissing their ass for the pleasure of being policed by jackboots from another hemisphere.
Yeah, I can see why the locals respond to a softer policy from their own people.
Dea just shifted back to the Emerald Triangle in Northern California - same tactics, but most of the locals speak english.
http://www.times-standard.com/general-news/20150715/fbi-black-hawk-helic...
And they don't have to deal with local law enforcement.
noooo you got it all wrong ---the DEA insures profits for the insiders while crushing competion from the outsiders. It's the enforcement arm of the USA/CIA drug cartel---
check out Afghanistan once the CIA left and the Taliban took over before 2000 - Heroin production went down dramatically - same effect
I think the ratio of aggregate right hands/left hands probably dropped as well.
CHC: Let's take this just one step at a time.
1) Pick up your crayon box and take one crayon out of the box. ANy colour will do.
2) Look at the paper. There are two dots on the paper. One says "Cocaine in Bolivia" and the other says "Cocaine in Washington DC".
3) Now take that crayon (either end will do) and connect the two dots with a line.
4) Now the hard part: on top of that line you drew write the letters " D E A ".
5) You are a STAR! You get TROPHY. You understand American Foreign Policy!
DEA 'Fast and Furious' on the way to hell
That was the ATF, they are the government approved gun and explosives conduit. Let's keep the boot stomp agencies straight or we could get sued by the Just Us department and be sent to the Bureau of Gulags
That boy needs some "Political Re-Education".
Off to the FEMA camp with you, lone wolf, home grown terrorist!
Poor kids of America... inflation will soon hit their funpowder...
I have been told that powder coke has been in a deflationary funk for years. It crossed below its 200 DMA back in 1994.
CIA whistleblower Gene "Chip" Tatum tells us about a Kissinger/Nixon orchestrated false flag operation during the Vietnam war and the CIA drug trafficking from Central America in the 1980's (Iran-Contra scandal).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyEoRck0abA
Here's another recent whistleblower...from CDC
http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/08/new-book-from-skyhorse-publishing-vac...
It's amazing that pretty much all of these bloated govt. outfits achieve the exact opposite of what they supposedly set out to do.
"It's amazing that pretty much all of these bloated govt. outfits achieve the exact opposite of what they supposedly set out to do."
Ministry of peace, anyone?
The best example of how much control they have would be the Ebola situation. The msm "news" was wall to wall 24/7 global pandemic frenzy for weeks. Oboza holds some sort of summit and appoints Ron Klain as "Czar" who doesn't bother to show up to the meeting. Practically overnight CDC's Frieden and Ebola literally vanish from the "news".
The vaccine thing really puts concerned parents in a vise in California. A state filled with disease vectors, unchecked illegals that spread long since eradicated diseases to unsuspecting citizens.
Do I get my kid the vaccines or do I let him catch whooping cough or Tuberculosis and die?
It's no kind of choice.
That's a tough one. Our kids are old enough now to have kids of their own. They refuse to because of so many things like this and we can't honestly argue with them.
The DEA are the biggest drug dealers on the planet only second to the CIA who is their biggest supplier.
Hey, regime change and black ops aren't cheap.
(9) Supply increases lead to lower prices for users
(10) Users substitute cheaper, more dangerous and toxic compounds for safer drugs due to #9 above
(11) Stigma attached to use is reduced and, combined with lower toxicity, drug use becomes less of an impediment to employment
(12) #9,10 & 11 result in less petty theft, muggings, etc... as the cost to addicts of their habit becomes more manageable
It is an acknowledged fact (by people who aren't complete morons), that alcohol prohibition was an unmitigated disaster: why should it be any different for "drugs" (let's be honest that the effects of undue alcohol consumption are no more pretty than abuse of other drugs)?
I think that the author mistakenly believes that the DEA was in Bolivia to stem the flow of drugs.
It's the 'stupid or evil' debate once again. While most of the posters here are gung-ho on 'evil', most people are afraid of being labelled conspiracy nut-jobs and will just go with 'stupid.' Either way, people you wouldn't want in charge are running the show. Once again.
If you were smart, you would set up a business. You would not need a gov job to get by. Just like only sub 100 IQ qualifies to be cop.
Stupid people need only to apply.
Shades of the Taliban in Afghanistan with those "poppy fileds" right before the clock ticked 8:20am on September 11, 2001!!!
They are trying to kill us all
Hello Bolivia, we're the DEA and we're here to help. Bahahahaha.
Further proof that the Federal government is incredibly incompetent.
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
- Milton Friedman
It's much worse than that!
So you're saying 4 years?
US presence always brings a surfeit of drugs:
Afghan Opium Production Increased 40 Times Since NATO, US Invasion
Since NATO entered Afghanistan in 2001, heroin production has increased 40 times, according to the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service. One million people have died from Afghan heroin since 2001.
“Afghan heroin has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since the ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ began and over a trillion dollars has been invested into transnational organized crime from drug sales,” said Viktor Ivanov, at the conference on the drug situation in Afghanistan.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/afghan-opium-production-increased-40-times-...
Pulitzer Prize Winner Gary Webb wrote about CIA drug sales of crack cocaine in the ghettos of California to raise money for the Contras. Unhappily, Gary Webb committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head, the most remarkable feat of his life.
CIA Botanists surveying Poppy progress in Afghanistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbIFmPBsN7Q
Brilliant! The more you smoke, the easier it gets to watch grass grow. They could do that forever.
Production inventory. Necessary for annual marketing plans. Who said government employees don't have business skills?
IT FIGURES!
That a banana republic knows how to better run their country than the U.S.? Come on, really?
"strategy employed by the Bolivian government may be a surprise to many prohibitionists because it did not involve any strong-arm police state tactics. Instead, they worked to find alternative crops for farmers to grow that would actually make them more money."
What a novel concept: a government a government actually working to put more money IN the pockets of their citizenry....
War on drugs = massive money fest for those 'helping' the effort.
War on terror = massive money fest for those 'helping' the effort. Plus, so many other benefits to those in power. Wouldn't be suprised if the smart politicians ask for a terrorist for xmas.
If you want to provoke some embarrassment with somebody who supports either, ask them a simple question - how do you define victory (it's a war after all).
Total bollocks all of the wars but the sheeple lap it up.
Basically we're all being played...
Atlanta Fed's GDP Now for Q3 was revised down to 1.2%
Atlanta Fed's GDP Now for Q3 was revised down to 1.2% from 1.4% previously following the personal income report. That's still well below the 2.7% Bluechip median forecast and our own 3.0% estimate. To wit: "GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2015 is 1.2 percent on August 28, down from 1.4 percent on August 26. The forecast for real GDP growth in the third quarter decreased by 0.2 percentage points following this morning's personal income and outlays report from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The slight decline in the model's forecast was primarily due to some weakness in real services consumption for July, which lowered the model's estimate for personal consumption expenditures from 3.1 percent to 2.6 percent for the third quarter."
https://www.frbatlanta.org/cqer/research/gdpnow.aspx?d%3D1%26s%3Dqp
Wherever the US gets kicked out, the drug or monetary scene can improve; if the Oligarchy is not involved in pulling the carpet from under the feet of local power.'Cos Oligarchy and US state power often work hand in hand. Local people know how to handle local problems if they are not PUPPEtS on strings.
Its good to see that South America and parts of Central America are now resilient to Pax Americana's reach, unlike those in its death cross, like Venezuela and Brazil; as both have king commodity : OIL. And that makes them vitally important to US interests.
Lets hope Afghanistan also moves that way as its the world's biggest producer of heroin; all done by the feudal barons who live off the Nato/US presence and links to its CIA parallel networks.
Thats Oligarchy networking on the dark side. Its not the stuff that comes to Davos but its the stuff that kills innocents.
Lets hope Afghanistan also moves that way as its the world's biggest producer of heroin; all done by the feudal barons who live off the Nato/US presence and links to its CIA parallel networks.
In the immortal words of Master Rumsfeld...
We just lost $2.3 trillion out of the defense budget and don't know where we put it all... But no worries!...
We shall remedy that situation within 24 hrs to reinstitute that heroin production is profitable once more for many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many "black projects" to come in that Country we haven't yet announced we will be invading and occupying in a couple of months against it's wishes that was profitable when the "Soviets were in her"!!!
Now this is a Friday article Tyler!
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
This is awful. How is the United States supposed to fund its clandestine operations with this kind of thing going on?
Meh, it's time for Opium War III. Or I guess it would be called Cocaine War I. Invade Bolivia and make them, in this case, produce it. Similar to what the British did, going to war to force the Chinese to import.
An invasion would be a good lesson to others too.
Opium Wars
Cocaine in is one hell of a drug - Rick James
Our best chance is for the keystone cop government to declare a war on the middle class
God I fucking hate America (the corporation).
Actual american people? You guys are ok. If you wouldn't mind doing something about the cunts "in charge" we'd all be very grateful.
Deez Nuts 2016??
Sadly anytime a candidate comes forward with actual private market experience with skillsets such as - value creation, budget management, managment, etc. - they get shat on by the career politicians. So we get stuck with Clintons and Bushes who have i don't know what skillset.
If you're pimping for Bozo MacMedia, don't bother. As governor of Minnesota, Jessie Ventura fronted for the usual political operatives. Another celebrity would just be more of the same.
Only difference - the Girly Warhog and Bubba Bumbles would hire them as government employees, rather than just get them on the phone for every step. Not much different about the outcome.
Yeah. We need a suicide brigade. A bunch of old geezers with terminal diseases who will correct one problem at a time.
That headline pretty much sums up US Foreign Policy.
One weird trick to stop cocaine trafficking in your country...
Sums up government quite well. Lying sacks of criminal shit.
Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson are the 2 largest sellers of legal opium in the world. I wonder how large their campaign donations are. . .
Remember this and never forget it. You have to money launder the CASH which makes the bankers at the top of the food chain. If you want to stop drugs stop the scumbag bankers from moving the money through the exchanges. The United States Government knows when and where the money is flowing at all times.
The drugs, guns and Cartels are all smoke and mirrors.
When the US got into Afghanistan they had no poppy plants now they are the number one seller of poppies again. Thank you William Kristol, Wolf Blitzer et al. for killing our children for your gains.
Banksters have already been caught at it. They just had to pay a little protection money to the Treasury and were left undisturbed.
"Just say, No." ~ Nancy Raygun
"Just say whoa" ~ Randy of the Redwoods
Just say whoopy.
Anon.
The scourge of the DRUG TEST.
All indications point to a pharmaceutical / political relationship when it comes to this
vilification of 'brown people' as a scapegoat for the likes of DuPont and other criminal chemical companies.
Hemp.
"[T]he drug war is one of the most misunderstood subjects in mainstream political discourse, even among people who are sympathetic to the plight of responsible drug users."
The above statement, with all due respect, is way behind the times.
You wonder why the workforce is lacking.
Someone is making large profit with the DRUG TEST SCAM.
Let's throw open the false veil.
In the late 80's, Hoffmann LaRoche and other pharmaceutical companies marketed drug tests as a way to intimidate workers out of union activities. You're not going to see that important tool of social control go away.
Want to stop rampant drug use. Arrest the globalists. Investigate and prosecute Lloyd Blankfein and John Kerry.
You racist bastard. Leave "Irish" John Kohn alone.
There goes their sex parties there...
Now all we need is the expulsion of US out of Afghanistan.
But if you legalize drugs where will I find nigras for the plantations, oops! I mean Prisons I own?
Gary Webb and Mike Ruppert did not die in vain.
Dear Department of Defense...
God Bless You... and thank you for all that you are doing to enable the on going protection of the Opium Crops in Afghanistan with the US Military... Without having our young soldiers protect these opium crops with their lives i am not sure what would become of the US Heroin Traffic in the world... It is a beautiful sight to see our young men and women putting their lives on the line for the War On Drugs at the US Sovereign Level Protection of its Drug markets...
The US Military's Protection of our National Drug Cartels is important to the existence and growth of the US Banking & Money Laundering System that helps support our National GDP.
Keep up the Good Work Boys... /s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2YWqVpT4E
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
No more protection. The Mexican cartels will take over now.
The cartels? The Mexican Army only operates in its home territory. Pretty much limits them to the transshipment business.
Hmmm...imagine that...the DEA gets the boot and drug production goes down. What does that tell ya, folks?
Meh. Reduced demand from US consumers since the recession.
Having recently worked in Afghanistan, I can attest that heroin is freaking everywhere!!!
I had a discussion with a friend who happens to be a prominent police chief in Kabul, about the whole drug situation.
The next day, the guy brings me what must have been a few pounds of the stuff! After nearly having a heart attack, I kindly asked him to remove it from my hotel room.
The guy just laughed!
I'm not sure about the accuracy of this article. 1st, Coca is not cocaine. You require several kilos of coca leaves for minimal ammounts of cocaine. 2nd, Coca is not prohibited in Bolivia. Coca leaves are mostly legal (up to certain ammounts) in the whole fucking region. Go to the altiplano not chewing the bitter stuff and you'll feel fucked up.
And lets not forget how the "scourge of patent drugs" was used by "progressives" to enable the founding of the FDA. Without an FDA you don't have the legitimacy monopoly you need to formalize "the drug war". I've looked but if anyone else can find it I would love to see some statistics on how many people actually died from patent drugs? I know it's no where near the number that have died from legally using prescriptions (not even including illegal use).
Bolivia has WMDs and Niger "yellow-cake!"
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.
When you listen to the many faux-truthers in the alternative press, it is this decoy NWO to which they point as they make their fearful predictions in order to create an emotional reaction within their viewers/readers/listeners. They portray it as an evil Zionist/Nazi/Neocon monster that is destroying the world and bringing humanity to the brink of World War 3. This is being done so the public will welcome the real NWO when it makes its move, defeats the decoy, and snatches peace from the jaws of war.
http://redefininggod.com/understanding-the-nwo-strategy/
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"Cocaine Production Plummets After DEA Kicked Out Of Bolivia"That seems to be the inverse of what happened after the US invaded and replaced the government in Afghanistan that had destroyed the poppy fields and the flourishing heroin trade......which almost overnight under a US installed and protected puppet regime not only reappeared, but exploded in size and dollar value.
Eric Clapton sings it,live from Tokyo ,88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrofCGa2BP8
End the war on drugs. Decriminalize and legalize drugs.
It will reduce political and police corruption.
It will remove money, guns and power from cartels and gangs.
It will greatly reduce gang violence and end drug war violence, which will save the lives of children and adults.
It will protect children since there will not be a monetary incentive for dealers to push drugs. Fewer fathers will be in prison, therefore more fathers will be with their children and families. More kids will attend school since there will not be the easy money from dealing drugs to lure them into leaving school.
It will remove money from the inner city gangs which will in turn make it much harder for gang members to purchase guns.
It will free up money that was used on law enforcement to be used for drug education and treatment. Also freed up resources could be shifted to law enforcement in Murder, Rape, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking, Violent Assault, Burglary/Robbery/Theft, Reckless Driving, Border Security, Fraud, Government Corruption, Vandalism and Cyber Hacking.
It will remove the problem of drug smugglers crossing the border illegally and lessen the danger to border security and residents of border towns. Court expenses will be reduced from the reduction in cases.
States expenses will be reduced because they will need fewer jails.