The consumption of cocaine has been a disaster for the human race. An untold amount of violence and aggression for South/Latin Americans to maintain captial-driven distribution routes for US Chadlings. A boycott on cocaine would end vicious cycles of poverty and violence. Discuss.

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    It's a feedback loop that involves many factors. Colombia's production of cocaine is a product of Peruvian crackdown on its own cocaine trade, and so producers shifted their focus to Colombia. The conditions that made Colombia the biggest cocaine producer in the world can be traced as far back as the 1800s, when socialist movements were destroyed by a repressive constitution that made property owners the sole proprietorship of any political movement within the country.

    Mexico itself used to be a conduit for Colombian cocaine, for its routes to the US. However, the cartels now produce their own narcotics in Mexico, much of this is done on land that was previously used by Mexican farmers that were crippled by NAFTA. And that's really just scratching the surface of extremely deep seated issues.

    What needs to happen is the reversal of accumulated capital back into the hands of those who now suffer the brunt of decades long nightmarish violence. The war on drugs was a disaster - full on prohibition would be an even bigger disaster.