There is only one way we can win the War on Drugs
(Just say joey…?)
It’s not a state secret that the world’s governments are not exactly winning the War on Drugs. Spraying coca fields in Columbia, paying millions to corrupt dictators and ‘Just say no’ campaigns at home have not seen any serious reduction in the production, trafficking and consumption of drugs.
Banks may go broke, house prices may drop as fast as unemployment figures rise but the drugs cartels are not really in need of any government bail outs.
So, should we just give up and stop pretending that we ever had a chance of winning this grossly unequal fight?
Until today I would have suggested that that should indeed be the case. Better to tax the enemy than to continue this doomed and very costly war.
Thanks to an article in today’s Guardian, however, I’ve become a believer - a born again flag bearer for the War on Drugs, if you like.
The best part of the story is that fighting drugs can be fun. We won’t need to bribe militias and dictators anymore, won’t have to use dangerous chemicals to kill coca crops or pretend that’s it’s cooler to say no than to get high.
No, the only thing we need to finally win the War on Drugs is to breed more wallabies, teach them how to use a parachute and drop them above the world’s various poppy fields:
“Unlike their larger mainland cousins, the wallabies of Tasmania appear to be more trippy than Skippy. No lesser an authority than the island’s attorney general has discovered that hungry marsupials and thousands of acres of legal opium poppy fields do not mix.
“We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,” Lara Giddings told a budget hearing on Wednesday. “Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.”"
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