Saturday, February 21, 2009

Plunging Drug Prices

How do they expect cocaine and heroin dealers to make a decent living? Europe is being flooding with plentiful and cheap drugs. This article makes it sound like something must be done to keep prices high. I would think that the heroin excess is the result of record poppy crops in Afghanistan. After all, Afghan farmers have to make a living too. Ok, just a little sarcasm.

Seriously, the drug business is becoming extremely powerful and rich. The drug kingpins can now essentially buy off just about any world leader/politician/country. Catherine Austin Fitts claims that the drug money has been laundered through Wall Street for the last 15 - 20 years. If the profit motive could be removed from drug trafficking, then there would be little motive to distribute product.

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