Ever walk Bourbon Street at 6 am?
In addition to the international pressure to keep most drugs illegal, it’s questionable whether a single poor country making drugs legal would actually improve their economic situation. They still couldn’t export it legally, which means that you’d get a serious influx of… extra-legal entrepreneurs coming in trying to smuggle it out and the associated violence and crime that such a business brings in. Think about the violence in Northern Mexico recently. I claim that it would actually worsen if Mexico were to legalize the production of drugs. The cost of production will go down, but the profit of getting it across the border won’t, which means that the stakes for doing so get higher and the blood flows faster.
Even if you assume that the issues of crime around the smuggling industry won’t be a problem, it’s questionable how much you gain from “drug tourism”. The Netherlands has managed to do so effectively for marijuana, but they have basically the easiest-going drug tourists around, generally middle class 1st world young people carrying backpacks and expanding their cultural horizons. And even then, local towns keep passing ordinances to keep the riffraff out. After a while, it gets annoying to have a bunch of stoner drifters coming through town. That demographic isn’t very likely to stimulate the economy in other ways, and you risk becoming a “drug tourism ghetto” as the drug tourists drive other tourists away.
And now consider what it would be like if your drug tourists were, uh, recreational heroin or meth users. I bet things get real bad real fast.
It’s way way better, economically, for most poor countries to keep drugs officially illegal. You get official aid from the American government and you get plenty of black market money from drug users flowing in, some of which is handily diverted to corrupt government officials. It’s win/win, right?
I attribute the growth between 47 and 51 to better posture and nutrition. I have no idea whether it is true, but I have checked the doctor’s records, which go back a about 15 or more years. Instead of eating like a bachelor, I’ve been following my doctor’s diet recommendations, which are available from any nutritionist or doctor (stop eating hamburgers all the time) take Trader Joe’s multi vitamins and sit up straight. This is my unscientific conclusion.
Re: legalized euthanasia
I suspect the OP got Scandinavia confused with the Low Countries:
From here
For the OP - just in case… Syria is over on the right hand side of the Mediterranean Sea.
United nations treaties is the true answer, google UNDCP.
Governments wants a healthy, psychologically stable and above all productive work force. Recreational drug use is counter-indicated. Alcohol got grandfathered in.
That is where the governments of the world make all their blow money. It has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with profit