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Weird: Yesterday I read a story about the collapse of Colombia’s coca market Fentanyl, cartels or simple market glut: what’s behind collapse of Colombia’s coca

• InSteady 3y ago
  From the guardian article you cite: >About 400,000 households depend on the coca crop to get by, but in departments such as Cauca in central Colombia the price for coca base – the first step in the production of cocaine – has almost halved from £0.60 ($0.75) a gram to about £0.35. As mentioned in this BusinessInsider article, the Columbian government has moved away from targeting growers and is instead targeting labs and exporters. Seems like a simple supply and demand problem that is hitting the small farmers.