tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28543539.post115977994712898220..comments2023-09-20T11:15:28.673+01:00Comments on Transform Drug Policy Foundation Blog: Coca Production Rises Despite "Winning" US Battle Against This Cropjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15263261726046054614noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28543539.post-1159835345575760712006-10-03T01:29:00.000+01:002006-10-03T01:29:00.000+01:00You might appreciate these thoughts I posted on my...You might appreciate these thoughts I posted on my LeftIndependent blog about the puff piece propaganda about Plan Colombia by the Christian Science Monitor last week and another about how the FBI is still not connecting the terrorism dots.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://leftindependent.blogspot.com/2006/10/fbi-still-not-connecting-dots.html" REL="nofollow">FBI still not connecting the dots</A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://leftindependent.blogspot.com/2006/09/plan-colombia-informed-myopia.html" REL="nofollow">Plan Colombia: Informed Myopia</A><BR/><BR/><B>Sept. 21, 2006 testimony by one of America's leading experts on Afghanistan, New York University Professor Barnett Rubin, who appeared before front of the United States senate Foreign Relations Committee. "The international drug control regime, which criminalizes narcotics, does not reduce drug use, but it does produce huge profits for criminals and the armed groups and corrupt officials who protect them. Our drug policy grants huge subsidies to our enemies."<BR/><BR/>Dr. Rubin concluded: "If it were not illegal, it would be worth hardly anything. It's only its illegality that makes it so valuable."</B><BR/><BR/>I think that terroism and the economics of prohibition is the most powerful argumentthat reform has against the drug war. These pieces try to quantify that argument.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com