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Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by BLKNSLVR on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:33AM (#25300561)
If you can own both sides of a conflict then your profit potential is huge.

This is pretty much impossible unless you're a government or a corporate with government-sized revenue and tendrils into government.

Wasn't the Iran-contra thing funded by selling crack to poor, predominantly African-American neighbourhoods in the US? Selling out their own citizens for foreign policy, or is that conspiracy theory?

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Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by capableweb on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:40AM (#25301254)
Apart from Oakland Tribune at one point writing about that the US government was selling drugs to fund arms in other countries, I don't think the whole "selling crack to poor" thing has been factually proven (yet).

That doesn't take away the fact that they sold weapons to an embargoed country in order to fund right-wing paramilitaries, which is horrible in it's own, but drugs doesn't seem to have been involved as we're seeing with The War on Drugs.

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