Donald has started an illegal and unauthorized war to deny an estimated 5 million US adult cocaine users access to any Venezuela-based supplies of a recreational drug that—
has a mere 0.1% chance of killing them.
will not make a damn bit of difference as to supply and availability on the streets in the US anyway. That’s because Venezuela supplies just 8% or 51,000 pounds of the total US cocaine supply of 635,000 pounds annually.
Moreover, almost the entirety of this tiny amount of Venezuela-based cocaine is actually grown, harvested and processed into bricks in Columbia. The fact is, finished product merely passes through trans-shipment routes in Venezuela, which could be replaced by alternative routes in a heartbeat.