other than punishing farmers who grow drugs, how can governments stop drug production?
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There are two extremely good ways to stop farmers from growing drugs. The first is to remove the reason farmers want to grow drugs by making them unprofitable. This is difficult considering the market is not going to dissappear any time soon. Efforts to shut down some farms drive the prices for drug growth up, making farming an even more lucrative trade, further creating the problem. The most that can be done is to improve the societies in which these farms exist so that jobs exist to help these farmers escape from the cycle of drug profiteering.\n\nA more unique solution would involve creating a bacteria or a virus that only attacks drug producing plants. Such a virus would not harm other plants (ideally) and would do no harm to people. This is much less harmful and less invasive than "nuking South America" or launching a way on farmers.
1120537
the government cant find a way to tax the growers
81531
I'd decriminalize drugs and would put FDA in charge of regulating them. With the money from taxing drugs and the budget for DEA which will not be needed anymore, I'd fund research and educational programs to study the effect of drugs and to educate the users free of charge. Anyone who wants to OD or is too ignorant to use the drug without taking advantage of the educational resources then let them!\nDrug dealers will then switch to the next illegal thing to smuggle. I don’t know what would that be.
833021
Hello,\n\nWhat do you mean deal with them? Our government has been dealing drugs on our American streets since the 1960s.\n\nHere, read about what our CIA has been doing. How our own government is degrading our soceity through illegal drugs.\n\nHope this helps you......................................................   : - O
1116693
Demand for illegal drugs is helping to destroy countless species of animals and plants, placing the public at risk, and supporting the disappearance of rain forests around the globe. The loss of these rainforests contributes to changes in the global climate. In addition, the production of some illegal drugs pollutes our drinking water supply by releasing carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals). \n\nReducing the demand for illegal drugs is one way we can ease the pressure on some of our most fragile natural habitats. We can reduce the demand for illegal drugs by not doing them and educating our friends, families, and communities about these facts. \n\n\n\n\nMarijuana \nMethamphetamine \nCocaine \n\nMarijuana\n\nThe illegal growth and cultivation of marijuana has destroyed and contaminated thousands of acres of public lands in America. In fact, more than 2,500,000 marijuana plants have been found and eradicated on National Forest lands since 1997. The damage begins when marijuana farmers burn off native vegetation, destroying natural wildlife habitats. Some growers clear cultivation areas with chain saws and spread fertilizers and pesticides. The arsenic-based poisons kill small animals and rodents and in turn, the larger animals and birds that consume them, devastating the food chain and area water supplies. \n\nOften, tons of trash and high concentrations of human waste are left behind by smugglers, who come to the U.S. to care for the crops. This impacts wildlife, vegetation and water quality along rivers and streams. It also detracts from natural, scenic qualities and can affect human and animal health from spread of bacteria and disease. \n\n\nMethamphetamine\n\nMethamphetamine or "meth" labs, using inexpensive over-the-counter chemicals to process the drug, can cause soil and water contamination, threaten fish and stream wildlife and create fires. \n\nFor each pound of "meth" produced, five to six pounds of hazardous waste are generated, posing immediate and long-term environmental and health risks. For example, National Forest Service employees who have been in contact with meth dump sites have become ill (remember, this could be the mom or dad of someone you know). The waste contains chemicals such as lye, red phosphorus, hydriodic acid and iodine. Some of this hazardous waste is dumped directly into domestic water wells, farmland and mine shafts, creating broader public health risks from contaminated water. \n\nIn California, for example, chemicals from large meth lab dump sites have killed livestock, contaminated streams, and destroyed large areas of trees and vegetation in that state. \n\nCocaine\n\nThe U.S. consumes nearly 260 metric tons of cocaine every year, which is grown and processed in the fragile environments of South America. The result has been the destruction of almost 6 million acres of fragile tropical forest over the past 20 years in the Andean region of South America, one of the planet’s most valuable ecosystems. \n\nEach year, millions of pounds of chemicals are used to process coca and then dumped into waterways or onto the ground in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Terrorist groups in Colombia linked to the narcotics trade frequently bomb oil pipelines resulting in toxic spills. One pipeline has been attacked more than 700 times since 1986 resulting in an overall spillage of 2.2 million barrels of oil into the surrounding ecosystem. In Colombia, which contains roughly 10 percent of the Earth’s biodiversity, roughly three million acres of tropical rain forest have been ruined by the coca trade. In Peru, ten percent of the total rainforest destruction in the last century is due to illegal drugs. \n\nThe rapidly eroding rainforests may mean that scientists may not find potential cures for deadly diseases, (one in six prescription drugs has a tropical source). The loss of rainforests also contributes to changes in the global climate. Pollution of waterways will perhaps permanently erad
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Thats it Control.\nThis is to fullfil need of the society. Like in the ancient kindoms in Europ when the people is to large to have sustenance he make some law to forbid s ex and the having only with the permission of the king (F ucking  U nder C onsentiment of the K ing) Remember that the catolic church is the right hand of the king and then have rules of conduct to crontol the people.\nIn modern times is much cheaper and "easy" to be moral than spend in a campaing that tell the youngs the effects of drugs,or to be carefull about AIDs or other deseases.\nThe rule saids Do not kill but not said "why".\nIn oriental ideologi because you must repect all living thing because all causes have an effect with the same intensity "but" in the inverse way.
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There really is no way to keep drugs out.  Someone will always bring drugs in.  I think the best idea (which has already been stated on here) is to legalize some of them.  Look at Holland, as someone already said.  If you want drugs to lose their luster they have to be legal.  People will be less attracted that way.  It wont be illicit anymore.  So people will not think so much about it because it wouldn't be a part of rebellion anymore.  But maybe it would still be.  Just because they are legal doesn't mean your mom wont be sitting at home telling you they are bad and not to do them.  So people probably still would rebel with drugs.  So I go back to my original thought.  There is absolutely no way to keep drugs out of your community.  Unless there is some kind of corporal punishment for them...which is also illegal.
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Hey cam, you moron, is having drugs be illegal keeping people from getting them?? Obviously not since you can tell that story.\n\nLegalize everything.  You should be able to buy anything in the same way you can buy hard liquor, whatever the rules are in your state.\n\nDrug prohibition does not work, just like alcohol prohibition did not.  Anyone stupid enough to use drugs should be allowed to, it's called thinning the herd.
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Yes, it is our only option.\n\nA major percentage of their national economy comes from illegal drugs. If we were to take that away the government wouldn’t have the funds to operate and would fall to the warlords and terrorists.  Which is ironic because the country doesn’t have a transportation infrastructure and relies on the terrorists and warlords as middlemen to bring their products (drugs) to market.  Soooo all we’ve done is legitimize a practice that brings loads of cash to those who would see us dead.\n\nWhat we should have done is stayed in Afghanistan (and never gone into Iraq) and helped them build their infrastructure so that they had a chance of having a viable economy without having to resort to making/selling drugs.
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The war on drugs has done nothing except create the black market for drugs, imprisoned many people that have not done any harm to any one and wasted billions and billions of tax dollars.\n\nThis black market is extremely profitable and as such enables criminals to buy assault weapons that they use to "defend" their market zone from competitors. This is where drive by shootings come in and where the little kids are getting shot in the crossfire.\n\nFor the police it is an excuse to violate the rights of anyone they suspect of possession or sale of drugs. If they turn out to be wrong, they just plant some drugs on you that they seized from their last bust.\n\nIf you want to reduce gang violence in the long run, legalize drugs, it eliminates the income source for them to finance their weapons supplies.\n\nIf you want to eliminate 30-40 billion dollars per year out of the budget, legalize drugs and dissolve the DEA, eliminate the need for our troops to be conducting operations in Columbia and elsewhere.\n\nIt cost the taxpayers a minimum of $30,000 per year to keep someone convicted of nothing more than possession or sale of a controlled substance locked up in prison. These people have not committed a violent offense and have harmed no one.\n\nEnd the insanity of drug prohibition.
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Some areas (Like those where hemp was once grown to support war efforts in WWII) have had difficulty eradicating the crop from the wild despite spraying. Many times the fields have to be burned. In some places in Arkansas. Mississippi, and some tropical areas where it once and still does grow wild they have to raise the level allowed for employment because of the possibility of "environmental exposure". Now typically a state can set the limit of a drug LOWER than the limits allowed federally, but not HIGHER, unless there is just cause and the federal statute has exceptions. \nWith newer pesticides and herbicides many of these states "exceptions" are disappearing.
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Most illegal drugs are cultivated by various communist or terrorist groups using slave labor.  Anyone who refuses is murdered.  Actually, murder, torture, rape etc. are routinely used to keep the slaves intimidated so they don't even think of causing trouble.  In places like North Korea and Cuba, its the government doing this to its people.  In places like Mexico and Columbia, various criminals do this while the local governments and police are powerless to stop them.  The drug money supplied by rich jackasses who do drugs, in the US and europe simply makes them too powerful to stop.
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The government pays farmers to destroy their crops or not farm land normally in conjunction with restricting imports to maintain artificially high domestic prices of rice, milk, sugar, cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and other commodities.\n\nThis is so farmers don't lose money and can continue to put food on our tables as well as the tables of their families.
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The federal government is all about making money. If they could control the potency of marijuana, they would tax the crap out of it like cigarettes and legalize it. The problem lies in the regulation of the strains of marijuana. Personally, I am tired of my tax dollars paying for pot-heads in prison.
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That's just one more side of all this problem, and the previous answer is rigth too.. The drugs find most of the consumer in the USA, and meanwhile in Latin America we haven't been able to have the economical growth needed, and that's a very profitable business!!!\n\nBut this is only a part of it, as i have been said, those lots of sides of the story should be known, studied, and solved TOGHETER!\n\nWhy don't we all take a break on this issue, as the congress men, and maybe we'll comeback with a whole bunch of information and good new ideas.lol.
131306
How do you stop these? You have a fair system of government and this will be avoided.
657769
The drugs can be taxed. But-like allergy medication-it only harms the honest people. It would not benefit society.