Mexico governor floats idea of medical opium growing to reduce drug violence

Yahoo/Reuters ^ | 3/15/16 | David Graham

[rawcatslyentist]

We can lock them up, and pay millions, or let them die, happy, and dump the body in a hole

But there wouldn't be any need to fund standing armies to go to war against them. Plus they wouldn't get to take any property and cash in their raids.

Oh well, maybe they'll put up some more crooked light cameras to make up the difference.

[rawcatslyentist]

It’s probably also cheaper to synthesize opioids and that’s why they don’t use poppy derived opioids.

And 15 years later we are still in Ag for?????

Jerry Maguire anyone?

[stocksthatgoup]

Let’s grow it here and flood the Mexican market. Free trade and all that. /s

[TigersEye]

And 15 years later we are still in Ag for?????

I don't know what you're getting at with that and I've never seen Jerry Maguire.

[ConservingFreedom]

But there wouldn't be any need to fund standing armies to go to war against them. Plus they wouldn't get to take any property and cash in their raids.

That's what the "War on Drugs" is really about.