SHUT OFF THE SPIGOT!
Shouldn’t we let Darwin sort all of this out?
What's the fuss?
Shades of “Charlie Wilson’s War”.
More free cash for the rent seeking rehab industry. It has a nearly zero percent success rate. But providing good paychecks for worthless degrees like psychology is a govt specialty.
We should be treating Afghani drug addiction with free Fentanyl.
Trying to destroy the poppy crop in the field, acre by acre, is a tedious wack-a-mole game. Some kind of genetically engineered plant pathogen relatively specific to the opium poppy might be a better option IF it could be controlled to avoid unwanted consequences. However, my recollection is that successful campaigns to chase opium production out of other areas on the past, focused not on the poppies and their raw opium, but rather on the supply of chemicals needed to convert it into far more potent and less bulky drugs. IIRC those chemical weren’t readily available on the open market in opium growing areas, didn’t have any other legal uses there, and could be successfully interdicted from reaching there. Having to smuggle the bulky raw opium out of country for further processing would make drug production much more difficult and less profitable.
After Leaving Thousands in Agony, the CDC Is Finally Clarifying Its Painkiller Restrictions
A couple of hundred thousand dollars worth of poison
added to the drug supply line will cure that problem practically overnight.