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Sooner or later all analyses for many problems here in Colombia (e.g. violence, poverty, education, corruption et al) get to the conclusion that drug trafficking influences if it's not the root cause for all of them. If you as the government take the monopoly of drugs then drug trafficking is over and with it many other problems.

The key is, taking that monopoly has side-effects for us like being put on US blacklists which will badly affect our economy in other ways.

We've been talking about this for a long time and have concluded that legalization in the states is the only way [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/ballot-measures-propos...