Obama ends the cocaine trade

What if Frederick Forsyth's The Cobra scenario played out in real life? A white house maid's grandson dies from a drug overdose which the president overhears and decides to bring an end to the cocaine trade. Probaly ASB but worth a try. Basically this. Ships with drugs on them are raided by an Anglo- American task force. The ships are then destroyed and the crew are detained on remote islands.How do they find out which ships? The team uses a UAV for intelligence. Cocaine carrying ships are shot down by a bucanner pilot and a list if corrupt officials who allow for cociane to enter their countries are exposed. The book was made in 2010 so that is when scenario happens. How would Americans react to their new president ending the cocaine trade? How would this effect congressional and the next presidential election?
 

Bulldoggus

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Also please no comments about how unrealistic the scenario may be. I just want a straight answer to the questions i asked.
Well, it is so ASB, it can barely be addressed, but if Obama had done that, I can see the Tea Party being more libertarian in bent, and Ron Paul having a much better shot at the GOP nomination.
 
Well, it is so ASB, it can barely be addressed, but if Obama had done that, I can see the Tea Party being more libertarian in bent, and Ron Paul having a much better shot at the GOP nomination.

There'd be a lot of conspiracy theories floating about, more often than not circulated via Ron Paulish types, about how Obama didn't REALLY halt the cocaine trade, and everyone would claim to have seen someone selling or doing cocaine somewhere, but no hard prooof would ever emerge.

And if the scenario really IS alien-space bats, then they wouldn't be rumours, people really would still be doing cocaine, and posting about the sightings on social media would become a national past-time, with Obama made into a laughingstock.
 
There'd be a lot of conspiracy theories floating about, more often than not circulated via Ron Paulish types, about how Obama didn't REALLY halt the cocaine trade, and everyone would claim to have seen someone selling or doing cocaine somewhere, but no hard prooof would ever emerge.

And if the scenario really IS alien-space bats, then they wouldn't be rumours, people really would still be doing cocaine, with others posting about the sightings on social media would become a national past-time, with Obama made into a laughingstock.
I guess in terms of less dealing. Of course people will still do drugs but as in the book a major international shortage of cocaine happening in this asb scenario.
 

CECBC

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Everyone would overthrow Obama and make the USA a cocaine-ocracy where cocaine consumption is mandatory.
 
That way of fighting cocaine is ASB. The USCG does intercept ships carrying drugs, but enough cocaine slips through into the USA anyway.

I'd change that part of the premise into to research into the coca plant's genome which allows for the creation of a GMO variant of it which can't produce the raw materials for cocaine, can be released into the wild and, due the modified genes being dominant, will replace the natural coca plant within a few generations. I'm not exactly sure that kind of genetic manipulation is possible.
But, if we assume it is, it destroys cocaine as a drug. Which means drug cartels replace it with something else. Maybe domestically cooked meth?
 
I'd change that part of the premise into to research into the coca plant's genome which allows for the creation of a GMO variant of it which can't produce the raw materials for cocaine, can be released into the wild and, due the modified genes being dominant, will replace the natural coca plant within a few generations. I'm not exactly sure that kind of genetic manipulation is possible.
But, if we assume it is, it destroys cocaine as a drug. Which means drug cartels replace it with something else. Maybe domestically cooked meth?

As great an idea as that sounds, I think the cartels would likely have stockpiled enough of their "product" until they could get enough "natural" coca plants to grow their own until they were back in business. Even if they didn't, they'd simply move on to another drug. Plus I don't know if the GMO version could be widespread enough to replace coca plants in that amount of time.
 
Hmmm. The GMO solution would be a nasty bit of biological terrorism and imperialism for traditional indigenous and latin American communities for whom coca leafs are a key part of their culture. It would be like the Russians deciding that Coffee is hazardous, so they wipe out the worldwide supply of coffee... including Americas.

More realistically.....

The issue with Cocaine is demand. It's not as if Colombians are foisting them off on an unwilling American public. Americans want their cocaine and are prepared to pay exorbitant amounts of money for it. So unless you can address that somehow, its going to be incredibly difficult to stop. Contra-indicating supply will just cause prices to skyrocket. Which will exponentially increase the motivation to supply that demand.

Short of a totalitarian police state, there's no real way to stop that.

But let's assume that somehow, Obama was able to interdict cocaine and stop the supply coming into the United States.... All you would get would be substitution. Other drugs - fentanyl, crystal meth, designer caffeine would explode. In the end, all that's happened is that the problem has been moved around a bit.
 
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