Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky'

[3rdWorld]

Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky'​

AFP

Cocaine 'is no worse than whisky' and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro (Handout)
Handout/PRESIDENCIA COLOMBIA/AFP


Cocaine "is no worse than whisky" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro during a live broadcast of a government meeting.

Colombia is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter, mainly to the United States and Europe, and has spent decades fighting against drug trafficking.
During a six-hour ministerial meeting -- broadcast live for the first time ever -- the leftist president said "cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whisky."


"Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whisky," he added, suggesting that the global cocaine industry could be "easily dismantled" if the drug were legalized worldwide.
"If you want peace, you have to dismantle the business (of drug trafficking)," he said. "It could easily be dismantled if they legalize cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine."
Petro also pointed out that fentanyl "is killing Americans and it is not made in Colombia", referring to the opioid responsible for around 75,000 deaths in the United States a year, according to official data.
"Fentanyl was created as a pharmacy drug by North American multinationals" and those who consumed it "became addicted," he added.


Since coming to power in 2022, Petro has attempted to make peace with all of the armed groups that are fueled by drug trafficking in the hope of ending six decades of conflict.
Cocaine production in Colombia reached a record-high in 2023, jumping 53 percent to 2,600 tons, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
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I'm sure Coke is their biggest national export..at some point you have to say fukk it and promote your own shyt no matter how bad it is..

 

[ReasonableMatic]

 

[InGodWeTrust]

My lady went to a nice restaurant with 3 white liberal coworkers to celebrate a birthday yesterday night.

Said they invited her to do some coke in the bathroom.

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

I have to say, I don’t think anything is worse than being drunk off everclear or moonshine.

Both create blackout conditions. And if you made blow legal, you might as well get ready for all of the successive prob on end that will arise.

No thank you.

 

[Wargames]

He’s fukking lying but who gonna say shyt to him. America’s moral leadership is done. The puritan era is over brehs.

Like I said before it’s no longer about did you do a crime it’s about what are they going to do about it.

 

[Hater Eraser]

 

[88m3]

Yup, time to legalize it, lets really make America great again

 

[Hater Eraser]

 

[Hater Eraser]

 

[ROBEEZYKILLA]

He kinda right

 

[DonB90]

He's not wrong but he's not right either

 

[RennisDeynolds]

My lady went to a nice restaurant with 3 white liberal coworkers to celebrate a birthday yesterday night.

Said they invited her to do some coke in the bathroom.

It was a birthday, would have been rude of them not to

 

[Bar Razor]

I have to say, I don’t think anything is worse than being drunk off everclear or moonshine.

Both create blackout conditions. And if you made blow legal, you might as well get ready for all of the successive prob on end that will arise.

No thank you.

Unfortunately you, like so many, haven’t looked into all the problems the War on Drugs has caused. I get that you look at the destruction drugs can cause and say they should be illegal! But it’s more complicated than that. Making them illegal creates an extremely profitable black market. A black market that has created the cartels in Mexico and elsewhere and all the death and destruction that comes with it. All the billions of dollars spent on drug law enforcement etc. And yet despite this it continues to make billions of dollars every year kill thousands of people etc. Fill prisons with thousands of people. So what exactly has this War on Drugs achieved? We tried prohibition with alcohol and it didn’t work out so well which is why it was ended. Its why legalization is the better idea and the money got from taxing it and saved from all of these drug enforcement agencies can be used for treatment programs, and other things. The bottom line is that people are going to do drugs regardless. I can get some coke in a couple of hours if I want despite the fact that it’s illegal. It makes billions and billions of dollars a year despite being illegal. The question then becomes what is overall better for society given that fact. My opinion is not the War on Drugs which has been a failure. Finally I leave you with this from top police officers on it.

America’s Top Cops Just Called the War on Drugs 'A Tremendous Failure'

Police chiefs from America's biggest cities have announced their support for changing drug and sentencing laws in order to reduce incarceration.

www.vice.com

The top cops in America’s four biggest cities said on Wednesday that the war on drugs has failed to keep America safe and that it’s time to reform the country’s criminal justice system, a view now officially shared by more than 125 other prosecutors, sheriffs, attorneys general, and law enforcement leaders from across the US.

 

[Grifter]

Nobody as far as I know ever needed whiskey so bad they offered up their mouth and or ass.

 

[Swirv]

What does the science say?