It is well known that a number of countries who are hostile to Somalia well-being are sending in drugs/alcohol to turn the population into the aborigines of Australia model or what the british did with Chinese opium trade. This tactic was created by the British who would always poison natives of various countries they were interested in colonizing or settling. This tactic is now used by everyone as a weapon against another country.
The chinese till this day are very strict against drugs because they saw what it did to their ppl and how it facilitated their land-losses like hong kong to the british. I don't think the way Somalia is fighting this will produce any positive results. The only way to win this war is thru regulating it or else it will go black-market and that is more dangerous since anything can happen in the black-market.
With regulations Somalia can at least inspect the standards and quality to ensure their is no poison added, but if it's in the black-market who will perform this task. The current police raids being done sounds good as an IGU SAWIR, but it won't even touch 1% of the drug/alcohol market, 99% still exist/thrive.
So those igu sawir raids done by the police needs to end. Somalia needs to Legalize it and then control it, which is far better approach at least then it will come thru authorities to do their checks and ensure it's not poison. The approach they have taken now is putting locals at risk who can easily source these things but it's quality is very low becuz their no govt inspection and is possibly going to lead to more problems in the future.
The chinese till this day are very strict against drugs because they saw what it did to their ppl and how it facilitated their land-losses like hong kong to the british. I don't think the way Somalia is fighting this will produce any positive results. The only way to win this war is thru regulating it or else it will go black-market and that is more dangerous since anything can happen in the black-market.
With regulations Somalia can at least inspect the standards and quality to ensure their is no poison added, but if it's in the black-market who will perform this task. The current police raids being done sounds good as an IGU SAWIR, but it won't even touch 1% of the drug/alcohol market, 99% still exist/thrive.
So those igu sawir raids done by the police needs to end. Somalia needs to Legalize it and then control it, which is far better approach at least then it will come thru authorities to do their checks and ensure it's not poison. The approach they have taken now is putting locals at risk who can easily source these things but it's quality is very low becuz their no govt inspection and is possibly going to lead to more problems in the future.