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>Good idea. Fighting it only makes the product more valuable, and the cartels more powerful.

Yes, but those cartels can still offer more than the government is offering (or use other, nastier means of persuasion) and their primary market doesn't live in Columbia. Not sure this will help all that much.

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But this is true of every industry and having to compete with above-board drug prices makes their product less valuable. The risk of dealing with a black market seller has to come with a deep discount to make it worth it. When they’re the only game in town that risk is just part of the normal cost.

Right, the foreign demand is not going away. I only see it causing the price to increase. But sure enough, there will be organized chrime getting dope to where it needs to be.

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