That claim would hold much more water if the US wasn't actively involved in the drug trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking ht

That claim would hold much more water if the US wasn't actively involved in the drug trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi... If you like books, I highly recommend "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade" Or if the US hadn't made its own opioid crisis, which caused skyrocketing demand for hard drugs (and is the result of a pharma industry that is completely out of control) https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-drug-war https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-drug-war Or if the US was in any way concerned with addressing the actual drug consumption crisis.