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If you were smodding cocaine in London or in much of Europe, there's a good chance that a lot of it will have come in some way through West Africa. Even under the Taliban, they were sending people from the south to

here in the west to teach people how to farm opium.

If drugs were the problem, pharmacists would be stabbing each other,

and they're not.

I'm Brian Closs and you're listening to power corrupts the

podcast where we shine a light under the hidden and often nefarious forces that shape our world. Oh, I got one. The The world is home to 7.5 billion people.

And of those, an estimated 260 million use illegal drugs in any given year.

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