I'm Greg Gloudy, English and this is a War on drugs quick fix? Man. How you doing, Clayton, I'm good Man, I'm good. Okay, So Clayton, we you know, we have some amazing guests and sometimes you just can't fit everything
into the episode that we're doing. But yeah, so this is almost like the bonus feature the director's cut um aspect, and I don't want to give much to it because this is from the Eric sterling Um interview that we did, and he tells this amazing story about a trip, you know, down to South American and Colombia and how politicians kind of use the war on drugs for political gain and kind of what some of these almost photo ops kind of look like and where a lot of this comes from.
Because not only can the War on drugs be profitable financially, but from a political gain as well. I think that's pretty obvious that you can go back and say I'm being tough and war on drugs definitely is a good campaign for whoever. I mean it it's for a shriff or whatever. You're gonna roll out that table with the two German shepherds and they're gonna put on everything that they found and just you know, and act like they're
doing something. When I went with the Select Committee on Narcotics on a on a fact finding mission to South America and we're meeting with the top government officials to encourage them to do more to fight quote the War on drugs, and to find out what more left they're doing. And in Peru, the Chairman and I have flown in in this proving aircraft into the jungle of the Amazon Watershed where we're seeing cocoa being grown and coca being chopped down, but with taxpayer money. And we have seen
all this cope. We're seeing it being chopped down. We knew how it was supposed to be eradicated, but they were chopping down with machetes these old, crummy coca bushes that were a pair their viability, and then spraying the herbicide on the ground around the route. They were killing the weeds that were going to interfere with the cultivation
of the coca. They were in effect pruning coca bushes and improving their viability using US tax dollars in front of members of Congress, thinking we wouldn't know what's going on. The congressman who represented Ocean City, New Jersey, turns to me and he says, now I understand the meaning of
the term pissing into the wind. We here we you realize when you're flying in a helicopter in Colombia to sort of see the Colombian military chopping down marijuana plants with machetes and asked plantation after plantation in the helicopter US No, no way, this is this is this whole strategy is not going to succeed. There's no economic sense to it. You know, there's it's it's a boon doggle. It's a campaign. You know, how do I get elected? How do I sound tough? You know, we would send
these message. You know, you'd hear members of Congress give these speeches on or sending a message to the dope dealing scum. We're not gonna take it. The message they're really trying to send is, hey, voters, I'm protecting your children. I'm doing something that you want to have done. It's not gonna do It's not gonna make a damn bit of difference, But I hope you get the message. Yeah, I'm looking like I'm doing something. I'm sounding like I'm
doing something. I'm Clayton English and I'm Greg Glad and this has been a war on drugs. Quick Fix, thanks again for listen