News (Media Awareness Project) - US TX: PUB LTE: Coca Supply |
| Title: | US TX: PUB LTE: Coca Supply |
| Published On: | 2009-10-29 |
| Source: | El Paso Times (TX) |
| Fetched On: | 2009-10-31 15:11:12 |
COCA SUPPLY
On what planet does Edgar Mauricio Solano live? You described him as
an expert ("Experts warn Mexico must keep coca out of the country,"
Oct. 17, El Paso Times). But he must have flunked economics 101. Where
there is demand, there will always be supply.
He calls for stopping the cultivation of coca in Mexico. Great. How?
After 10 years of Plan Colombia, South American production is up and
prices are down.
Forty years into a failed prohibition model, he calls for stay the
course.
In the coming years, how many colleges and hospitals will have to
close in Texas in order to hold all the drug-prohibition prisoners?
Howard Wooldridge
Dallas
On what planet does Edgar Mauricio Solano live? You described him as
an expert ("Experts warn Mexico must keep coca out of the country,"
Oct. 17, El Paso Times). But he must have flunked economics 101. Where
there is demand, there will always be supply.
He calls for stopping the cultivation of coca in Mexico. Great. How?
After 10 years of Plan Colombia, South American production is up and
prices are down.
Forty years into a failed prohibition model, he calls for stay the
course.
In the coming years, how many colleges and hospitals will have to
close in Texas in order to hold all the drug-prohibition prisoners?
Howard Wooldridge
Dallas
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