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Originally Posted by Kybosh
That's the rub I guess. I've seen careers and lives spiral out of control from both. I would say more research needs to be done to determine the full cost to society. Cocaine is strange because it is only produced in a handful of countries, so I'm not even sure what could be done here without a concerted global effort.
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You pay the Colombian and Bolivian governments to buy it directly from the farmers.
The entire yearly Afghan crop of heroin could have been purchased directly from the farmers for something like two billion dollars a year. The estimated yearly costs for the war on drugs for enforcement and incarceration is like $40 billion.