I think the elite engorge themselves and starve the state, or swamp the state in debt. They continue to shift government spending to private "contractors" and except for surveilance, military, covert ops, the state is being starved of resources and set up to fail. In other words, no, there is no intent to use "their" corrupt "earnings" to support the state. They are fleecing the people and the state and we are heading to Greek style austerity, meaning we, the citizens. There is no austerity planned for the elite.

It is pretty strange that the media keeps addressing marijuana like it's a fucking problem. I never hear them talk about heroin. A lot of friends and town folks I live around dies from this shit and I'm sick of the news never talking about it.

It's a valuable renewable life destroying crop. So yes, likely.

That's a lot of money to launder - that's why banks in the region are sketchy.

Good article to read regarding the economics of the heroin trade in Afghanistan.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-war-afghanistan-s-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade/91

its far more likely the heroin trade is a double edged sword, one to provide for "black" funding sources and two, its a dagger into Russia's spine, as 90% of Afghan opium processed into heroin has Russia as its final destination. Dont worry, the Chinese play the same game with tons of chemicals shipped to Mexico for the production of methamphetamines. The concept is termed "total war".

I would be sincerely shocked to find that they weren't. Drugs make them money in every conceivable way. The sale is only half the picture. The "war on drugs", the LE jobs required for it's enforcement, the national prisoner population housed in corporate prisons, legal fees, ect. Not to mention putting chemical chains on people seems preferable for them.