As if they are not growing already??? Who is kidding who??
Make the wall another ten foot higher.
The governor is either hopelessly naive (and soon to be killed by narcoterrorists) or he is on the payroll of some narcotrafficante group that wants this to happen.
Most likely such a group would want it as a cover for their illegal trade.
Didn’t Great Britain try this same thing with China during the Victorian Era? That didn’t work out too well for the Chinese.
Dumb idea, which won’t end well.
Maybe our druggies will move there illegally to get high!
yeah, right, Growing Opium in Mexico will be sooo helpful for America.
The answer to the addicts problems is a herbicide for the poppy fields. This is essential because heroin kills the appetite for sex. That is a tragedy for the addict.
Pot is becoming more and more legal in the U.S.. The Mexican marijuana market is loosing its customers to local/legal producers. Very soon the profit will be gone.
Legitimizing Opium for medical use and touting it as a way out of the violence caused by DRUG GANGS seems legit as long as it is made clear that the gangs have to resepct the law and not steal any of the opium for themselves. MMM-KAY?
Hey, I got this CRAZY idea, how about cutting off their number one buyer of illegal drugs? How about securing their preferred route to distributing drugs?
Eh, who am I kidding. A secure border wall just means that the Mexican cartels move all of their operations to here in the United States rather than just most of them as it has been for years.
I mean, honestly, if Mexico did pay for the wall, they’d have a much less corrupt government, far fewer illegal drug cartels, and a vastly lowered crime problem as hordes of transients on their way to the US border won’t be there.
Of course, take home money for most of Mexico’s politicians and police would also take a massive hit, probably why they squawk so loudly whenever the topic is brought up.
As long as we shoot anyone bringing that stuff over it’s alright by me.
I don’t like drugs coming into the country, though the USA’s addicts do cause a lot of the Mexican problem by being willing customers.
OK, I'm failing to see the downside, here. We can lock them up, and pay millions, or let them die, happy, and dump the body in a hole, and, if we remember, write down their useless names, somewhere.
(Most of them are Bernie bots, so it's no great loss to the economy.)
The narcos could take over completely and start executing every single person who ever opposed or offended them?
Then they could cross the border and start executing INS and FBI officers, National Guard officers, Texas Rangers and DPS officers, county and city LE, and every rancher they could get their hands on?
Like that?
Everyone - chill out and consider this.
Once upon a time, back in ‘03 and ‘04, the consensus among some US, UK and Allied military planners in Afghanistan was to convert their poppy growing into medicinal supply for the third world. People in the back country areas of the globe require pain killers, just like in the ‘modern’ countries.
The idea was that the farmers would be paid for growing the same stuff they grow anyway, but instead of selling it to the drug lords of central Asia, they would sell it to the factory down the road. Where the opiates would be turned into medicinal drugs for sale.
The idea was quashed from powers on high. I suspect that two BIG pharmaceutical companies, one from Europe and one from North America, decided that the introduction of cheap opiate medicines on the world market was something they didn’t want.
They make huge profits off synthetic versions and they don’t want competitors.
Our government, and others, swept in and we had DEA agents in combat, with air support, doing half-assed eradication efforts.
The idea to use traditional opium growing regions to provide medical-quality medicines at a lower rate is anathema to the companies that make lots of money making and selling their own.
That’s why we’ll never see cheaper drugs, and this mayor will either be bought or killed for coming up with the idea. Plata o Plomo.
Let’s grow it here and flood the Mexican market. Free trade and all that. /s