Not that I think we should legalize drug abuse, but it is sometimes eye-opening to hear another side of the story. If you can get ahold of a July issue of National Geographic, read the complete article Cocaine County . Photojournalist Carlos Villalon got an unheard-of free pass to document the farming of cocaine in rebel-controlled Caqueta, Columbia. The peasants who grow and sell coca (to be later made into the drug) get squat in comparison with cocaine's street price, and many of them say they would like to quit growing it if they feasibly could. Get this: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), the rebel force which governs much of Caqueta, collects a 30% tax on the coca each farmer sells - and they keep a firm rein on the peasants, making it illegal to drink on weekdays, to fight, and - you guessed it - use drugs.