Posted on 09/09/2010 9:25:13 AM PDT by KyGeezer
The National Security spokesman in Mexico said violence in both countries "was fueled by the enormous demand for drugs in US".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Too bad there’s no way to lessen the demand for illegal drugs...
Yeah, its all our fault
Mexico supplies drugs to the entire world, but of course it’s all our fault.
A good start would be to deport all of the illegal drug using illegal aliens.
How much of the cartel business is from human smuggling? The pollos are paying about $2,000 each to the gangs to get smuggled here. If you do the math the human smuggling part of the cartel business is huge, AND the Mexican government is complicit. I am sick and tired of Mexico blaming ALL of their problems on the USA.
Too bad there’s no way to lessen the demand for illegal drugs...
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There is. Just make them legal. And ~poof~ all our problems will just disappear.
(At least thats what the liberals say)
Are they the ones that are responsible for the greater demand?
Wouldn’t that make the illegal drug trade stop?
Capitalism always wins. I mean think about it, it’s supressed at every turn, and the illegal drug trade is still around 8% of all world trade. Crazy. And profitable. Inflated profits, no less. Profits that must be laundered throughout worldwide financial institutions, who certainly must appreciate the opportunity, nudge nudge, wink wink.
Wouldn’t that make the illegal drug trade stop?
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Of course. But it would also mean an increase in the legal drug trade.
And that’s a very good thing, right?
/sarc
Of course not.
The federal government might legalize methamphetamine and cocaine, but it would never legalize crystal meth and crack.
Methadone is pretty widely available legally in the US with a prescription, and heroin addicts generally use it to supplement their heroin habit - a way to tide them over between fixes.
As long as addicts want a powerful, dangerous hit without any red tape, there will be a black market in drugs.
And they'd also be happy to take any uppers, or cocaine inhalers or methadone syrup the government is willing to legally offer as well.
Most legalization proposals completely ignore the psychology and pathology of addiction.
Yeah, like the legal alcohol and tobacco trade. It definitely takes the criminal element out of the picture, doesn’t it?
See post 13. Legalization wouldn’t change much - unless it literally involved the government giving away free crack to anyone who wanted it with no questions asked.
Maybe the pathology and psychology of addiction should have the money spent on the drug war, spent to find a way to reduce that?
You’re right, we’ll never get rid of drug abuse completely, like alcohol abuse. But taking a major criminal element out of the picture, would definitely be better than what we have now, wouldn’t it?
And while we’re about legalizing drugs to stop crime, why not legalize rape and murder?
That’ll sure reduce our crime rates, huh?
That really doesn’t make much sense in the context of this thread, does it?
Mexico hasn’t had a working government in living memory.
Anyone who doesn’t believe there isn’t any way to lessen the demand for illegal drugs has never passed through Singapore customs.
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