Juu talkin' to me, mang??

So last week, John Kang did his headlines on the beautiful country of Columbia. And while it's actually a really pretty place, and the lines were persuasive, the country is still in such disrepair.

I know this because I was watching the history channel a few weeks ago (surprise surprise) and they were replaying a special they did on narcotics. Of course, I'd already seen this special about three times, so when they got to cocaine, I knew they'd be discussing it's major exporter (jorrs truly, mang) and how it was an impossible problem to control. It's mainly so prolific and effiecient because of how cheap it is to produce . . . so effiecient, in fact, that the drug cartel's income (from the high markup) was in the billions. That's enough to rival the very government trying to stop it.

So I had an idea of my own on how to stop the problem. You might think this is a joke, and I can understand that, since that's what I do most of the time. But this could actually work: Instead of the government taking the offensive approach by storming drug houses, tightening security around borders, and gathering intellegence, they could take a more economical approach. They could simply redirect all funding to harvesting their own cocaine crops and production (in secret of course). Sounds crazy right? Well, if everyone's going to be doing the drug in the first place, then those people will have no problem breaking laws to do so.

So the US could sell their drug for 25% of the regular price. They'd still make a LOT of profit, since there's no transport overhead or anything of the sort. In essence, the anti-drug program funds itself. And the best and key part of the plan: they hit the cartels in the wallet; we start up a bidding war rather than a physical war. In essence, we drive them straight out of business until there's nothing left of them. Then, with the cartels out of the way, the government runs the monopoly on drug use. So then all we have to do to stop the drug problem is decrease the supply little by little each year, until they cut it off completely.

Then: no more coke in America.