Formative stages of wealth accumulation
In the US it was the drug tobacco which became a staple of the farming economy. In Columbia it is Coffee. It's not that hard to imagine state controlled opium farmers providing a large wherewithal to the government for schools, services and development of the infrastructure.
I'm not saying I support the cultivation of opium, but rather I understand how brutal poverty carries a different set of moral and ethical beliefs.
Where wealth resides among the masses, terroris and martyr complexes diminish.