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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a completely different problem with cocaine. Namely that it is extremely exploitive to the people who grow the coca. It takes about two acres of coca plants to produce just one kilo of cocaine. Obviously, that means the people who farm it are paid virtually nothing and live on starvation wages. If it's really cheap in Switzerland, that makes it worse.

On top of that, coca plantations are responsible for huge amounts of deforestation in an area of the world that should not be deforested.

However- hundreds of thousands of people are working in coca plantations and own small coca farms and if this all ended, they wouldn't even have the meagre wages they make from coca farming. So I don't know what the solution here is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

wouldn't legalizing it also solve that issue? It could be grown legally - much like legal marijuana.