The only thing that could fundamentally damage the illegal drug trade is to end the War on Drugs by creating a legal option to buy and sell drugs.
"This case is fundamentally about collusion, the illegal rigging of a purportedly competitive bidding process," said Joseph Demarest, head of the FBI's New York office.
Most of those at the meeting, including two former mayors and members of a citizens' rights group, criticised the Tiziana acquisition, suggesting it was fundamentally unethical and possibly illegal, while a minority thought the deal could still be beneficial.
He claims that a breakthrough in targeting top smugglers is around the corner, but when asked if there is any chance of achieving the 60-70% target the United Nations estimates would be required to change fundamentally the market in illegal drugs, he simply shakes his head.
People around the world need to understand that what we're doing is fundamentally legitimate and is not illegal.
"It's not that we can't bear this result, but that fundamentally, the guilty conviction is illegal, is unreasonable and unfair".
"I am committed to cracking down on fundamentally unfair - and potentially illegal - arrangements that give elite groups of traders early access to market-moving information at the expense of the rest of the market".
"Botnet mining is fundamentally theft of private property, illegal and unethical," Jeff Garzik, a bitcoin developer told the BBC, adding that bitcoin miners had battled botnets for years, seeing them as a "cost and a burden" they just had to deal with.
China is fundamentally responsible for fueling the global trade in illegal tiger parts, yet it has an emerging, powerful political mandate to resurrect the tiger as a symbol of wilderness.
