Organization of Cocaine Exporting Countries (OCEC)

You may heard of the strange story of MTBE in California. The state banned the carcinogenic gasoline additive because it was contaminating groundwater. California was sued by the Methanex Corp. which makes MTBE, stating that California violated Chapter 11 of NAFTA, which requires that any expropriation or anything tantamount to expropriation has to be compensated. There is a similar rule governing investor-state relations in the WTO regulations.

I propose meeting with heads of the cocaine cartels in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil to form OCEC, the Organization of Cocaine Exporting Countries. OCEC will file a complaint with the WTO, stating that the US ban on imports of cocaine is a boycott, which is an illegal restriction of free trade under WTO rules. The WTO would have to rule that the US must drop its restrictions on cocaine imports into the US or pay trillions of dollars to OCEC. This amount represents the profits lost due to the illegal ban on cocaine imports. Any DEA seizures of cocaine imports is a form of expropriation as well and must be compensated. The Organization of Heroin Exporting Countries (OHEC) comprised of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, and Afghanistan, would follow suit.