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Cartels are moving away from cocaine, heroine, and marijuana, as they need to depend on farmers. Second, they need to source Cocaine from Colombia, Ecuador, Per
by raincom 3y ago
Cartels are moving away from cocaine, heroine, and marijuana, as they need to depend on farmers. Second, they need to source Cocaine from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru; they grow opium in Sinaloa. Dependence on farmers, land, weather, climate change just add complexity. That's why they have switched to synthetics: just set up pharmaceutical factories in Mexico itself, import ingredients from China, and hire and train chemists.
- Ekaros 3y agoSo only real option is to wholesale legalize all of the drugs.
- jmartrican 3y agoYes. Or it could be the case that cheap cocaine might reduce use of synthetics?
- raincom 3y agoYes, but it won't happen, as states, cities, and feds are suing pharmaceutical companies, even pharmacies like Walgreens into oblivion. (Walgreens paying $290M to the city of San Francisco after a recent lawsuit.) And doctors don't want to be in that practice of prescribing opioids. In other words, even if all synthetics are legalized, there won't be any doctors to prescribe them, there won't be any pharmacies who want to sell them. That's why people flock to the underground market to get synthetics, even if you legalize all drugs in the states.
- Ekaros 3y agoThen just need to remove need for prescriptions like it is with ethanol, THC and nicotine. Allow dispensaries to setup taxed sale channels.