re your edit:
I'm suggesting that if they didn't need that much coca for their medical product needs, then there is no justification for them to import that much coca. I'm suggesting that the medical market is the only legitimate use of the stuff, but that rather than running the business for the medicine and selling flavourings as a sideline, the opposite seems to be the case, and that the only reason they can get away with it is because of the influence that big businesses such as the Coca Cola company have other the legal system.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 18:19, 1 reply)

I actually agree with this
I never said I thought it was a good situation - what I said was that there is no good reason to posit a cocaine selling/smuggling operation from the known facts. It will be interesting to see what will happen when the medicinal cocaine market dwindles to an insignificant amount.
( MatJ LOOK, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 18:30, closed)

OK, I shouldn't claim you suggested that, because you didn't.
I should have said that there is no reason to assume an oversupply of cocaine.
( MatJ LOOK, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 18:34, closed)

well perhaps,
although I suspect it's not called the Whitehouse for no reason...
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 18:49, closed)

Indeed
Bill Clinton was terrible for not cleaning up after himself.
( MatJ LOOK, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 18:56, closed)