“Dozens of tons of cocaine have been taken out of circulation,” German authorities said. The drugs were first uncovered in Hamburg last year.
Investigators in Germany have discovered a record amount of cocaine worth several billion euros, authorities reported on Friday.
“Dozens of tons of cocaine worth several billion euros have been taken out of circulation,” the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation and the Customs Investigation Office in Stuttgart, as well as the Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office announced.
The huge quantity of drugs was first discovered in the port of Hamburg last year, and, according to the German news agency DPA, originated in South America.
legalize it and tax it.
They just did with marijuana, so there is progress
They didn’t do a proper legalization like Canada though. Just half-assed it.
Idk for me it’s progress. But it might be a glass half full/empty kind of difference in perspective
so the state has more wealth that it can use to bomb innocent people? no thanks
Google Iran-Contra. No legalization needed for that. In fact black money pools are much more useful for bombing innocent people.
oh, I’m all in favour of legalizing it, don’t get me wrong, but I see the “we could raise more money by taxing it!” as a bad thing - more wealth for the state just means that the people in power have more resources. I think it would be far better to legalise it, but only when you buy it from a sole individual, and make it illegal for corporations to profit from the drug trade. far better for everyone!