[title] A Friend With Weed Is A Friend Indeed
[desc] Recent reports have revealed that drug cartels are supplying the poorer citizens in @@NAME@@ with food and supplies, currying favor among the masses and in turn making it much harder for the police to apprehend drug kingpins. Several encounters between locals and law enforcement officials on their way to arrest reported cartel members have escalated into full-on firefights, with nearly two dozen citizens and police officers dead and counting.
[validity] answered 1016.1/2(or however a war on drugs might be tracked, stat-wise or not), low poor incomes, has guns, capitalist
[option] "@@LEADER@@, these are our people," says militant weed manufacturer Ivana Smoke, who is rumored to run half of the black market operations in @@NAME@@. "We provide them with essentials that the government neglects, and in turn they shield us from unlawful prosecution. This war on drugs is getting you nowhere — your own citizens aren't even on your side! Cease this mindless carnage, and divert your security funds to places where they'll really help, like welfare and education. Stick with the disenfranchised and the poor, @@LEADER@@ — we are not the enemy.”
[effect] newly-educated children are awfully blunt with their parents
[option] "Hey! Quick, grab 'im!" orders Police Chief @@RANDOMNAME@@ as several security guards attempt to tackle the kingpin, who disappears in a cloud of strange-smelling smoke. "Gah, we'll get 'em next time! @@LEADER@@, we can't let our glorious @@TYPE@@ be tainted by these ghastly substances — if anything, we need to go harder on these criminals! Give us more funding, more individual autonomy, and allow us to arrest any civilian seen in league with these dastardly thugs! That'll show those high-in-the-sky idiots who's boss."
[effect] it's a crime just to be helped out
(alternative) charity distribution sites are regularly raided by the police
[option] "These people are doing ourrr own work for us!" exclaims your brother in extremely slurred speech as he takes a hit out of an impossibly large bong. "Let themm *hic* keep feeding them or whatever, and—" he doubles over and coughs several times, "We can focus on other stuff like—" he throws up on your shoes, "Tourism, or something. Isn't this a great opportunity to promote our sight-seeing induhstryyy? I'm sure people would looove to feed the pheasants. Or something. Haha!" He passes out on the floor.
[effect] bewildered tourists help drug kingpins hand out food to poor @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@