More terrible things brought to you by the criminalization of drugs.
This doesn’t happen in the coffee or sugar business.
This doesn’t happen in the coffee or sugar business.
Uhhh, are you joking? Slavery is still found in these industries to this very day.
Organized crime too- for example, cartels in Mexico have moved to extort Avocados from farmers because it has better margins than drugs...
> Avocados [...] has better margins than drugs...
They don’t. If you steal/extort $anything though, the margins get really good. If you switch from drugs to extortion, it’s because you got cut out of the cartel or law enforcement got too distracted by drugs making other crime more attractive.
Criminalization of coffee or sugar would only worsen the poor treatment of labourers in their cultivation areas. The crop might change though.
I do not believe your implied claim that decriminalizing drugs would prevent this sort of behavior is correct.
> In Brazil, slavery is defined as forced labor but also covers debt bondage, degrading work conditions, long hours that pose a risk to health, and any work that violates human dignity.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-coffee-slavery/pic...
Their “slaves” are generally people with poor alternatives with a side of government corruption/ineptness.