Driver arrested as part of Scots drug supply investigation

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edd1974:
Was an article /prorgrmme on radio 4 last week about solar renewable power.
And they were saying farmers In Afghanistan are using thousands of solar panels .
And there using the power generated to grow opium.
And apparanetly Afghanis the world’s leading opium supplier. Producing 2 thirds of the world’s heroin supply
So here’s an idea instead of bombing civilians and oil fields. Why don’t we just drop a bomb on the fields destroy there crops.

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Because the rich western dealers would give a few quid to someone in another poor area to grow the stuff in a field some where else.
So long as their is demand, someone will turn a profit by supplying

Government worldwide could stop the production/supply of drugs if they wished to do so, The biggest problem is the corruption that is endemic within the country’s that produce the drugs, It would need a global agreement,… And a totally trustworthy unbendable force to implement such a strategy…

All of the above.
Start with the judicial system. Coppers chase down essentially sick people for seeking a medicine that is worth pennies in its country of origin.
These people are forced into a system where many learned people, funded by the taxpayer by means of legal aid , pointlessly argue about the rights and wrongs of the situation and after this protracted process 99 times out of 100 they decided that they must return these poor unfortunates back into the wild.
Only to commit more crime against hard working taxpayers who also are advised to spend their hard earned money on prevention and insurance.

All of this amounts to industry. Everyone involved in this merry-go-round has a job and is supporting the wider economy. Non of them care that you had your stuff ripped off, you paid for it once, you can afford to pay for again.

You want to know how to end this? Treat it as a medical issue.
Round up all the numb nuts who want to wreck their lives by putting them on a good behavior bond and giving them as much of their destruction of choice as they want provided they stay out of trouble. Which they will as they now no longer have to go out robbing to fund their habits.
The Afganistan farmer gets a fair deal. Your stuff stays where you left it. And a lot of unscrupulous people dont get paid of have to start actually working for a living.

All we have to do now is sort out the nomadic scrap dealers and Britain will be Great once more.