Thoughts and prayers have worked so well in the US to curb school shootings, I don't see why it can't be a valid strategy to combat drug cartels.

And Encyclopedia Dramatica was the best for edgelords.

Even if it isn't tasty, does it matter? If the ethanol bound crop isn't being used for ethanol, you can grow another crop on that land. It's not like a mine where you can only extract the mineral that happens to exist there.

I found most medical problems in that game could be solved by stopping and resting until that person was healed. Increasing rations also helped. Of course the tradeoff is wasted time and resources.