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Whoops, since the Mexican drug cartels can't make enough of a profit from smuggling marijuana, heroin smuggling has increased 300% and methamphetamine 200%. Does the radical left want to legalize heroin now?
We are being strangled by our own outdated drug laws
We lead the world in incarceration and yet we are not making a dent in the drug trade
We are being strangled by our own outdated drug laws
We lead the world in incarceration and yet we are not making a dent in the drug trade
Well, if all of your incarceration stats were about drugs then it might be a valid point. The problem that no one wants to tango with is that this crap about legalization will cut out whomever simply puts change in a specific class of people's pocket. It doesn't change the economic needs of the people (lower level dealers) that were dealing the drugs to begin with. Gangs existed long before and they will exist long after.
Whoops, since the Mexican drug cartels can't make enough of a profit from smuggling marijuana, heroin smuggling has increased 300% and methamphetamine 200%. Does the radical left want to legalize heroin now?
We are being strangled by our own outdated drug laws
We lead the world in incarceration and yet we are not making a dent in the drug trade
Well, if all of your incarceration stats were about drugs then it might be a valid point. The problem that no one wants to tango with is that this crap about legalization will cut out whomever simply puts change in a specific class of people's pocket. It doesn't change the economic needs of the people (lower level dealers) that were dealing the drugs to begin with. Gangs existed long before and they will exist long after.
Their reason for existing will no longer exist. They will have to find some new vice to get involved in
We are being strangled by our own outdated drug laws
We lead the world in incarceration and yet we are not making a dent in the drug trade
We are being strangled by our own outdated drug laws
We lead the world in incarceration and yet we are not making a dent in the drug trade
Point isn't to make a dent or win the war on drugs. If that were the point, we'd make them all legal and win overnight.
Forbidding things people wants only makes people want them more. No one's killing other people for a beer or bottle of liquor (by and large anyway heh.) Can get that on any city street corner. People only kill and prey on others for things that are hard to come by, find, or obtain.
For the US which just loves to describe itself as a free country, we're not very free if we can't choose whichever chemical intoxicant we want but only the more dangerous ones as with alcohol, nicotine, and prescriptions narcotics. Can't fall over dead from too much THC. Can drop dead on the spot from too much alcohol or liquid-form nicotine.
The illegality of narcotics and other "drugs" is both hypocritical (given what's permitted,) and racist. There's no case to be made for public safety when alcohol's legal and kills hundreds more times the number of ALL illiicit drugs currently illegal.
The glory days of the mob were during prohibition when alcohol was made illegal. Could you imagine how many billions more the cartels would be making if alcohol was still illegal? The glory days of the cartel were made possible when Henry Anslinger led a campaign to outlaw a plant primarily because he felt that n*ggers were using it to rape white women. The first Mexican cartel established itself in the U.S. by developing an infrastructure to distribute marijuana throughout the states. They used that infrastructure to make a deal with South America's cocaine cartel's to distribute cocaine and other drugs throughout the 50 states. That was 30+ years ago in the 80's, and now look what's happening. The war on drugs is a spectacular failure, and Mexico is burning.This is not true: cartels exist in the 1st place is because marijuana was made illegal.What's your point? There is no mention of Marijuana in that article. It does however mention that this new Cartel has been able to grow because of the damage done to the other, previously more powerful cartels. Just a few months ago the most powerful cartel kingpin of all time was captured and arrested. That opened up a space for newcomers.KLegal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels VICE NewsCartels make most of their money off of heroin, meth and cocaine, not marijuana. Most of the marijuana in the US today is produced domestically. Legal Marijuana won't effect the drug cartels profit margin's significantly, and domestic producers will continue to produce marijuana, legally and illegally, as they do in Washington and Colorado.The reason the cartels exist in the 1st place is because marijuana was made illegal.
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New cartel arises from Mexico s assault on big drug lords - San Antonio Express-News
Further, legalizing it has changed nothing. The most powerful cartel of all time? Name changes and a gap just allowed someone that was competing to step in to fill the spot.
The glory days of the mob were during prohibition when alcohol was made illegal. Could you imagine how many billions more the cartels would be making if alcohol was still illegal?
The glory days of the cartel were made possible when Henry Anslinger led a campaign to outlaw a plant primarily because he felt that n*ggers were using it to rape white women.
The first Mexican cartel established itself in the U.S. by developing an infrastructure to distribute marijuana throughout the states. They used that infrastructure to make a deal with South America's cocaine cartel's to distribute cocaine and other drugs throughout the 50 states. That was 30+ years ago in the 80's, and now look what's happening. The war on drugs is a spectacular failure, and Mexico is burning.
No cartel wants marijuana legalized in the U.S. Go ask any of them. Sure they sell other drugs and have other ways to make money, but marijuana is their easiest product to sell and distribute. Losing that steady revenue stream would be a big blow to the drug end of their business.
