The first question to U.S. statesman Lyndon LaRouche after his presentation to an overflow audience at the Nueva Granada Military University in Bogotá, Colombia on March 18, addressed a central strategic issue being fought out across the Americas today: What effect would legalizing drugs have on the economy?

In a number of countries, including in the United States, the world's leading drug pusher, British imperial hitman George Soros has sold a number of Congressional and other fools who believe money and economy are synonymous, that somehow federal, state and municipal budget crises could be solved by the immoral act of taxing legalized dope.

LaRouche was uncompromising: "Legalizing drugs would mean the death of the economy.... Drug traffic was invented by the British as a way of destroying countries... This traffic is a mass murderer of individuals, is a mass murderer of nations. Any toleration for legalization of drugs is …