The Drug Trade and Guerrilla/Insurgent Movements

[Farnan]

In the past Guerrilla/Insurgent movements have been funded by piracy, prostitution, armed robbery, banditry, night clubs, extortion, smuggling and if they were lucky a wealthy benefactor.

However, today the primary source of funding for these groups, from the FARC of Columbia to the Taliban of AfPak to the United Wa State Army of Myanmar has been drugs. Drugs have become a reliable and high paying source for these groups, enabling them to assemble forces equal to some state militaries. Thus the war on drugs and the war against instability are heavily linked.

What must be done to take this most important source of funding from them?

[Katsumoto]

Destroy the source. Stop the growing of the drugs, give farmers more, honest options of making a living and crack down on suppliers. Obviously that's easier said than done, but that's what I think will work.

[Claudius Gothicus]

Legalization and Taxation, it's clear that the business it's so big because it's free of taxes.

A global offensive should be made by the most important powers and the countries were the drugs are made in order to coordinate a sustainable development of legal drug plantations so this money goes to the citizens through the state and not some guerrillas/terrorists.

[Denny Crane!]

Destroy the source. Stop the growing of the drugs, give farmers more, honest options of making a living and crack down on suppliers. Obviously that's easier said than done, but that's what I think will work.

yes more violence that will solve the problem. It has worked so well in colombia.

Oh wait....

[BNS]

Legalize drugs and watch their prices plummet. The criminal busineuss model will stand little chance against competition from the legal market.

Of course then criminals will then move to the next best outlawed "vice".

[Denny Crane!]

Legalize drugs and watch their prices plummet. The criminal busineuss model will stand little chance against competition from the legal market.

Of course then criminals will then move to the next best outlawed "vice".

They are already there. They've been there a long time. In fact they developed a stranglehold over that one and rapidly moved into human trafficking. Right around the time these things became illegal.

So you'd be seeing a massive drop in criminal activity, stability in countries. It isn't a zero sum game, that is where people go wrong with this and so many other things. They assume a gain in one direction must be balanced by something going hideously wrong elsewhere. No the world can get better.

Would it so surprise you to learn that human traffikers, prostitution, vice and other nasty activities are the one and same people running the drug smuggling distribution and other rackets. I could point you towards some fairly disturbing evidence (the last one was human cages in a cannabis farm/house that I came across)

[BNS]

They are already there. They've been there a long time. In fact they developed a stranglehold over that one and rapidly moved into human trafficking. Right around the time these things became illegal.

So you'd be seeing a massive drop in criminal activity, stability in countries. It isn't a zero sum game, that is where people go wrong with this and so many other things. They assume a gain in one direction must be balanced by something going hideously wrong elsewhere. No the world can get better.

Would it so surprise you to learn that human traffikers, prostitution, vice and other nasty activities are the one and same people running the drug smuggling distribution and other rackets. I could point you towards some fairly disturbing evidence (the last one was human cages in a cannabis farm/house that I came across)

I know. But I figured that without the money drugs bring in the fight against human trafficking and other such illicit activity would be that much easier.

[Katsumoto]

yes more violence that will solve the problem. It has worked so well in colombia.

Oh wait....

Well what do you suggest?

[Exarch]

problem is the USA hasnt stopped the afghan gov/taliban from growing opium

[Denny Crane!]

problem is the USA hasnt stopped the afghan gov/taliban from growing opium

Problem is the usa SHOULDN'T stop the afghan people growing opium.