Why?
The harder it is to get drugs, the more people can charge for it. The higher the cost of a drug, the more people are willing to risk (their lives) to smuggle it.
Let's say you have a kid, and your kid needs a surgery or they will die. Someone comes to you and says.. Take these 50 kilos of meth to the philippines and they will give you $100,000.. Enough to pay for your kid's surgery... Would you risk it? Or let your kid die?
Let's say you're some dirt poor filipino who makes 250 pesos a day. Someone offers you $100,000 (5M pesos) to fly to china, pick up 50 kilos of meth and bring it back to the philippines. How many do you think would do it?
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Just look at singapore and indonesia.. They've been putting people to death for drugs for a long time now... And they're still doing it.. Why? Because people are still willing to risk their life to make quick money. If you want to end the drug problem you need to give people somewhere to go in life. If the government of the philippines had spent the last 10 years building infrastructure and fixing their fucked up / corrupt system then people would be able to get a job, more companies would come to the philippines. But, they spent the last 10 years doing fuck all and stealing all the money they can. Companies don't want to go there because it's a big hassle to deal with the PH government and all their cronies looking for bribery money.
I sent my wife to register a company in Makati. The girl processing the paper wanted money from my wife to process the papers. We registered the company in HK instead (where they have infrastructure, rule of law, and modernized non-archaic systems) and my filipino employees are all considered contract workers to the HK company. PH government in the end, gets zero tax money from me because of one dumbass who expected bribes to do her fucking job.
If I was a filipino, I'd be on drugs too. The country is so fucked. And, the reason it's fucked is because of the culture.
You know who should be shot in the streets? Your senators, congressmen, mayors, and other elected officials. But, really, it's your own fault for electing these corrupt people in the first place. Everyone is all anti-dynasty, but keep voting for the members of the dynasties! Insanity. You guys remind me of these idiots who keep getting screwed over by the ASIC manufacturing companies. You keep doing the same thing expecting different results.