The thing that gets me, and what seems to be the glaring Elephant-in-the-Room, is the river of unaccounted for money from the drug trade. We’re pretty sure it’s corrupting the Mexican gov’t. Any ideas how its corrupting ours, for it surely must be. It would be a given that law enforcement is being bought off. How would it extend into the political arena? Killing projects that might actually fight the drug traffic?
My brother was a cop back in the ‘70s and told me about a plan two New York cops had to end the drug trade at half the cost of drug war : simply buy up the entire world’s supply. Even with jacking the prices up, the drug prices would get to be too high for the distribution network to support and we’d have a true market value. Then all the dope-heads would have to clean up. Maybe that’s too simplistic. Probably so.
We’re pretty sure it’s corrupting the Mexican gov’t. And factions of our Gov to be sure.
My plan would have been simpler: have some undercover agents acting as wholesale suppliers. After building up volume, introduce shipments cut with some slow-acting toxic substance (polonium sounds right).
Like $100 million to buy off environmental groups to support growing marijuana in our national parks?
There was thread on it on FR a week or two ago.