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That way the talibs would be denied revenue and we could use the product to maintain our junkies as well as the junkies in all NATO nations,

Junkies addicted to hardcore drugs do crimes, cannot hold down a productive job, become homeless, become a burden on society.
Why do we want to "maintain" them?
Hard drugs are not like marijuana and alcohol where you can have functioning druggies.
It's a qualitatively different problem. Maybe Netherlands has solved it by legalizing everything, but I don't know if that will work in America.

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