America's cocaine habit fueled its migrant crisis

Politicians are asking the wrong questions; Instead of asking "How can we stop drugs from getting into the U.S.?" they should ask "Why are so many Americans buying them in the first place? Why is the U.S. the most profitable country in the world for illegal drugs? How can an American use a product they know people likely died to manufacture, to smuggle, to sell?" The end of the drug war will not and cannot take place in Mexico or Central America, it can only end in America with a complete 180 in policy, education, thought, economics and society.

between all the cocaine and the coffee, it looks like Colombias mission is to wake up the world.

First law of economics: Whenever there is a demand there will be a supply. Outlawing somting is not automatic solution to cut down demand.

As long as people IN THE USA keep demanding , drugs will never stop . This will never stop

"sir what are we gonna do with this 20 tons of this confiscated cocaine?" "do you mean 15 tons? they'll be sent to the feds ofc" "yes i mean 9 tons sir, i'll send them right away"

3 seasons of narcos in 1 vid

The US should look inside for a solution rather than waging wars outside..

This should NOT be an age-restricted video. It is filled with valuable information based in fact.

Seems like we've got a drug problem in the us, who knew.

> America: Complains about Illegal immigrants bringing over illegal drugs > Also America: Does Cocaine Good job America

As a Guatemalan, thanks for this video. Sadly, you forgot to mention that the Internal war we suffered was mainly triggered due to US military intervention. So yeah, we're still paying that after all these years. That being said, most people who leave my country HATE the idea. NO ONE wants to go to the US. But between being killed and risking your life, you know which option will always be selected. Traveling north it's at least an option.

The literal definition of “you played yourself”

It’s one hell of a drug

Is anyone else having a bit of a deja-vu? The US is not the first country to struggle finding solutions to drug trafficking and drug consumption, a lot of countries in the world have the same exact problems; the difference is the scale of the US market. Theoretically, drugs are just a business like any other. All businesses operate on similar economic principles and rules. A fundamental principle in a market economy is demand and supply. If there is a demand for a product (in this case cocaine), there will be a growing supply until equilibrium is achieved. So, the first step would be to tackle demand, which begs the question: Why is the US the largest cocaine consumer in the world? The second thing would be the supply side: People want to be employed to earn enough money to live off of, so they look into the labor market and as soon as the benefits of the drug employment outweighs the downsides, the drug cartels (aka companies who employ) grow their employee base. This begs the question: Why does the drugs business outweigh other employment opportunities? The US tried to intervene on the supply side by restricting US market access. As simple 'tariffs' won't do in such a case, they chose raw force (aka law enforcement). The problem is, the demand is still there - the US recognized this and pushed for hard domestic laws to lift the threshold of when consuming drugs outweigh the negative consequences. In theory, this should curb demand but in a market, the supply side will always try to create a market even if there isn't or shouldn't be one, meaning if the drugs cartels are sufficiently big, they will move heaven and earth to carve out a market for them. Just like any other large businesses (think of insurance companies for example) since the alternative would be disastrous. At the same time, the drug cartels will push to explore new markets (Canada for example) to continuing their business expansion. Economics is interesting, isn't it? Even though it is a messy subject no one really understands, the world revolves around it. The US tends to favor unilateral policy decisions which seems to not work out in this case, admittedly, it is a difficult problem to solve but time to realign the approach?

As a Honduran, I really agree on how this video handles the topic. Thank you

It is interesting how none is talking about the outflow of weapons "Legally" and "illegally from the US, which fueled every war in Central/south America if not the world.

Portugal decriminalized all drugs and their crime rate dropped. Remove the taboo and a lot this falls apart on its own.

Amercians creating their own problems? (insert pikachu face here)

Ladies and Gentlemen, the 1928th reason to not do cocaine.

It's crazy what drugs can make people do