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Rebels And Paramilitaries

In today's May 29 "Houston(Texas)Chronicle" is a story about how the FARC and AUC sometimes work together in the drug trade. It is interesting that the governments of the world still believe that eliminating the fields, labs and confiscation will stop the drug problem. One day, probably not in my lifetime, they will learn that stopping the need and desire will end the problem with drugs a whole lot faster.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3202463
The story is long, but interesting.

By Mike TX on May 29, 2005, 11:35 in Politics & the war.

Scalestick says on May 29, 2005, 12:24:

Market I also feel that as long as there is a market for drugs, especially a once, and maybe still so, socially accepted drug like cocaine, that there will always be obscene amounts of money to be made in this trade, and innocent deaths along the way. I only wish users would see beyond their own little world and see the consequences their habit has at the other end of the trail. It's a shame.

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SiV says on May 30, 2005, 01:53:

Control Scalestick, while I essentially agree with your statement, I think it is a nigh-on impossible task to ask that drug-taking, an intrinsically self-orientated, if not selfish activity, becomes socially aware and acts with solidarity.

I think it is a little more, (though not much in our present societies, I admit) pragmatic that we see the problems of drug-taking and the whole multitude of consequences caused from another perspective: that it is not until we, and our governments take an approachable stance towards drugs and policies of prohibition that the deaths of so many innocents, especially those not taking the drugs themselves, can be put to an end, or at least limited.

SiV

Stultórum númere infinitum est.

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