Talk:Narco-state

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
Because of a school project, I will be working on the narco-state wikipedia page. I am planning on adding more information concerning the description of the narco-state and am considering adding a discussion about Colombia in the final section. If you have any tips or comments, please let me know! 
Greetings, MyrtheSpecht (talk) 07:46, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: School project

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Narco-state's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Britannica":
From Latakia: Latakia. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2009-03-01, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
From Afghanistan: 
From Cuba: 
From Manuel Noriega: 
From Mexico: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 16:24, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Narco-state]] 

message: The article seems to be made of name-calling against threats to United States' national security (geopolitical opponents and countries with non-US-controlled drug cartels), while ignoring the role of United States themselves, their pharmaceutical industry and their geopolitical allies in drug trade, such as Allegations of CIA drug trafficking, Opioid epidemic in the United States, the currently happening amphetamine epidemics (there is no dedicated WP article about it, Amphetamines#Legal_status is the closest WP article I found, but the mechanism of the epidemy is similar, doctors persuade people into taking them for treatment of their condition (and it works for some time) and then prescribe the drugs to everyone who reports certain sympthoms, internet contains pretty a lot of material on the problem within the personal blogs of US-based doctors), Cannabis policy of the Joe Biden administration, Cannabis in Ukraine, 2023 White House cocaine incident and Hunter_Biden#Drug_and_alcohol_abuse. To make the article more balanced it must cover the allegations of United States being a narco-state itself.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.24.165.50 (talk) 08:48, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sympathetic, but on a quick search I'm having a hard time finding reliable non-state scholarly sources that specifically call the U.S. a narco state. There's tons of writing about the U.S.'s shady relationships with organized crime, however. Do you have any sources in mind that you're thinking of? toobigtokale (talk) 03:12, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality issues 

message: Of course, the CIApedia won't mention the British Empire and the USA, which even had their universities built with drug money. Instead, they prefer to use propaganda from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, etc.).
And any edits that go against this will be reversed and the user will be banned or persecuted, because freedom of speech is only for land thieves. Honesttangl0 (talk) 17:48, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Of course, the CIApedia will not mention the British Empire and the USA.