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Padriag -> RE: Drug cartels bringing terrorism to US/Mexico border? (12/10/2008 8:29:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: rexrgisformidoni
The cartels are involved in far more than drug trafficking. Plus even with your decriminalization plan, which will never work, nor be supported by any sane American, the cartels will merely push the drugs through a "legal" front and still rake in the cash. The only drug I can stand behind being legal is marijuana, and even then, it should come solely from American crops. So your plan won't work, the violence won't stop, and it will continue to creep northward.
And sadly, you're right. Take for example cocaine or heroine. While either could be grown and produced here in the US if it were legalized... it could still be grown and produced overseas cheaper. So, we legalize it, we set it up to be domestically produced and controlled, taxed, etc. The drug lords will produce it and sell it cheaper, and so they still make money. Not nearly as much, but they still make money. And because of the addictive nature of these drugs and the compusions that come with those addictions... people will do strange things to get those drugs. So to actually break the hold of the drug lords, we'd have to have our government subsidize and provide drugs for free in whatever quantity the mobs of drug addicts demand... which is never going to happen. So again, the drug cartels eventually win. Round and round society goes, trying to find a "cure". Problem is that the problem isn't drug addiction... its stupidity... and there's no cure for that either. Closest we can get is eliminating some of it from the gene pool. Which brings us back to the question of just how harsh we as a society can stomach being on stupid. Currently, we as a society apparently can't stomach very much at all... and the drug lords just keep winning.
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