Re: tropical paradise

["Robert L Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My neighbors across the street are from Columbia.
> They both got out of their country after their
> husbands were exectuted for speaking out against
> the drug problems that cripple their country's
> natural development.

There are two main reasons why drug trafficking is such a problem in the
developing world.  First, the first world nations provide ready customers
with billions of dollars to spend on illicit drugs.  Second (or perhaps it's
the other way around), the developing nations made possession of those same
drugs a crime.  While legalization would do nothing to solve the problem of
drug addiction, criminalization has made the drug trade the most profitable
industry in the world.