{"id":1705,"date":"2024-04-01T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2024-04-01T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:26:05","slug":"narconomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/narconomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Narconomics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Very interesting book<\/a>. It explains the mechanics of a drug cartel from the point of view of economics. I didnt think issues like supply chain, HR\/PR, competition\/merges, offshoring, R&D, online business, diversification, etc were part of drug cartel, as you only think of those as part of a licit business. There were many things that I didn’t know like the birth of “legal highs” in NZ<\/a> (and Matt Bowden<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal is to fully understand the “business” because the current laws\/actions, etc against drugs are clearly not working. So this way you can really offer a different approach to tackle the issue. You are not going to destroy them 100%. Most of the actions are at the source of the drug business: growing the plant (decrease in growing area causes minimum increase in retail price). But the book shows that is not effective and prevention (done in the consumer’s land: like rehab, education in jails, etc) is much more productive (for the same investment). As well as legalization (ie marijuana<\/a>) as that brings control (“safer drugs”, tax revenue, etc) and put out of the market the dealers\/cartels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a difficult pill to swallow (punt intended) for governments and citizens but the writing is in the wall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very interesting book. It explains the mechanics of a drug cartel from the point of view of economics. I didnt think issues like supply chain, HR\/PR, competition\/merges, offshoring, R&D, online business, diversification, etc were part of drug cartel, as you only think of those as part of a licit business. There were many things that … Continue reading “Narconomics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}