… (cont.)
The present problems in Niger and other African jurisdictions, [similarly here in the South Pacific] has as its root, the predatory dysfunction created by the political mythology and market protection racket that is “a war on drugs”.
As a consequence of United States interest in maintaining a war on doctors, in remote Papua New Guinea, eight cannabis plants will buy you a Kalashnikov AK-47 Assault rifle. Tell me this is not a medical problem of international proportions.