If the United States is capable of creating a sane domestic drug policy, and if opium, coca, and marijuana gain the same legal status as coffee, tobacco and alcohol, the economic incentives to produce these crops in other nations could possibly be reduced.
However, the United States needs to address its own prohibition and poverty fueled violent crime rate, and the explosion of STDs, HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancies, and an economic disaster brought on by the addiction to wars and prison building. Until these issues can be constructively addressed, the US government will continue to lose credibility as a moral role model, and the bullying of nations experimenting with alternative approaches to drug and disease control by the US will increasingly be ridiculed, as it should be.
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-Previously published at Helium.com, Pulitzer Center
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