# Drug Trafficking ### How [[Cocaine]] Trafficking Actually Works https://youtu.be/lwP9H9qTuUY "In my opinion, the government can't win the war on drugs and they're fully aware that they can't win the war on drugs. And if you talk to a lot of high-ranking police, they will definitely tell you that the waron drgus in unwinnable. And in my personal opinion, the only way that the war on drugs will be won is to legalize all drugs, manufacture them under license and strict control, and then tax them heavily in order to offset the detrimental cost to society." "Really, the key element of this is the financial gain of criminals. If you can take out the financial gain from the whole equation, then there's no incentive for criminals to traffic drugs." "So I don't think that throwing more and more money at the border force and trying to control it. Say - eradication of crops. They tried eradicating crops and that only had a detrimental effect on the people on the ground because it destroyed other crops as well and led to disease and illness and contaminated water" =="It's a huge business kept illegal, because it's actually creates more employment and more monetary gain, overall, for law enforcement, for prisons, for the judiciary, for healthcare, for these drug companies that help with treatments"== "I suppose you do make contacts in prison - they are the finishing school of crime. Anywhere you go in prison, anywhere on the planet, you will end up making contacts." Since getting released from prison, I wrote a book called "El Infierno", which is all about my time in prison in Ecuador