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Originally Posted by Wormius
So what do you do? Salt the earth and bring the farmers here to grow marijuana?
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No, you have to educate them and then give them a livelihood and product that has more value than the crop they have been growing for generations. How do you change the fisheries on the east coast? Same thing. Education and reshaping of the economics of the region. It takes time and it takes money. The US invested both in Afghanistan and produced nothing but $5 trillion in debt.