NO WAY! The US Government turning a blind eye to drug smuggling? You mean like the golden triangle in the Vietnam era? Like the Contra wars, the CIA and Mena airport in the 80s? Like the way we carefully forbid our men from damaging the poppy harvest in Afghanistan and heroin production exploded after we invaded? like fast and furious giving weaponry to Sinaloa? Like HSBC and Wachovia and Wells Fargo laundering hundreds of billions of cartel money?
The only thing I see different this time is that individuals were benefitting rather than the policy makers. dirtbags all.
Good synopsis.
Yep, from the recent reports of the huge amount of drugs coming in from Mexico it couldn’t be happening if a lot of our people weren’t being paid off.
You’ve got it, yeah just like that.
The drug smuggling biz tends to do that. It did it to Mexico; it’s doing that to the USA.
Is it time for a drug glasnost in the USA?
This isn’t the same as telling people it’s fine to be addicted. The zeitgeist under Trump is headed the other way, if anything.
But, letting this stuff go on in the sunshine, now would get us utter honesty about it. And also makes it possible to target meaningful intervention. All the hush-hush that had been going on about AIDS (doubtless to keep from yacking all over the place about the downsides of the activities of homosexuals) apparently backfired. Kept in the dark, it grew like mushrooms, for which that is their native habitat.
I think that if it were outed, rather than chased in cloak-and-dagger operations, street drug trafficking would actually get largely shamed out of existence. What still took place underground would take place due to shame, rather than to government coercion.
I know not everybody is where I am about this, and there’s the question of, say, Colorado. Colorado is a semi-shadow operation now. The official trade is in government sanctioned shops. But they are still heavily regulated. It isn’t easy enough to go that way, that the clandestine activities have disappeared in preference to it.
Are the policy makers not individuals?