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Originally Posted by Americano
Viability depends on market value of legal exports (I have no idea), will they generate as much revenue as illegal production. Resistance to US occupation will tax those proceeds in one form or another and, if illegal exports are more profitable, tribal chieftains will play both the legal and illegal sides of the street.
Here's a US state department paper opposing legalization:
U.S. Opposes Efforts to Legalize Opium in Afghanistan: The Rationale Against Legalization
One of their talking points is legal poppy exportation having far less value than illegal exports. The paper claims legal morphine is in adequate supply and stockpiled, but contradicts itself by blaming unavailability in undeveloped countries on this and that. Typical anti-drug message tied in with expressed democratic principles from an administration in bed with the pharmaceutical industry. |
The U.S government is holding the "War on Drugs" line.
What they say in the paper is in many ways true though.
- There will not be as much legal demand as there is illegal.
- Some farmers will still sell to the black market to make higher profits.
But on the positive side, regulation would be in place and the poppy growing would be curbed and under control. The street price of herion would go up, but there would not be as much of the product anymore.