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Hippiekinkster -> RE: Phoenix plagued by drug cartel kidnappings (3/3/2009 11:37:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Honsoku
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ORIGINAL: Vendaval
What is the best way to cut off their funding?
Legalize the product. It won't actually cut off the funding, but the price will crash along with the profits. The violence will dissipate as the extreme profit and illegal nature of the operation go away. It is our own "war on drugs" that feeds the cartels.
Exactly right.
Augustus Owsley Stanley III writes:
" In the effort to "control" drug use, the approach taken on an international scale has been to prohibit even the use and possession of many materials. This model is the "American" one. That this approach is a failure has been widely noted by many prominent and even conservative commentators. The use of substances which alter in various ways the conciousness of man, is an extremely ancient and established practice, in spite of the belief of those who feel their moral views are the ones which should be imposed on all humanity. The use of draconian legal laws as deterrents, to attempt to eliminate ("control") drug use has already led to the widespread development of a powerful and dangerous black market, and in fact, any further movement in this direction will have the following inevitable results:
1. The use and distribution of drugs of all kinds will increase in direct relation to the increase in penalties. The penalties represent the "degree of risk" to the supplier.
2. The price on the street will also increase, removing ever larger amounts of money from the legitimate economy.
3. The number of dealers on the street will increase, especially those targeting the most vulnerable of our society- in particular, children.
4. Dangerous infectious diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis will increase, perhaps to epidemic proportions. At the same time, many more users will die of overdoses and blood infections due to the unknown purity and concentration of the drugs as furnished.
5. Crimes will increase, especially property crimes like burglary and armed robbery.
6. The increased flow of money into the criminal element will increase the likelihood of police corruption to the point where it will become the norm.
7. All political systems will be placed under great corrupting influence as the elements profiting from the money-for--nothing drug trade use their funds to buy influence to maintain the level of prohibition.
8. Our systems of taxation, already stretched to the limit to provide services will be threatened with collapse in the attempt to imprison all the people who will be convicted and require incarceration.
9. The lure of "easy money" will entice many perfectly ordinary citizens to become criminal cultivators in order to make ends meet (interested persons are urged to examine the American Broadcast Company News Special "Pot of Gold", Peter Jennings, reporter, on marijuana cultivation in the USA. Aired on 13 March 1997. and available on video from the ABC).
10. The money paid for drugs is not based on the real value of the drugs themselves, but is based on the risk of delivery, which in turn is the result only of the law. This presents us with an economic crisis of enormous impact, wherein a person with no skills, experience or education can have an income (tax-exempt), greater than the highest paid individual in the entire industrial world. Such a situation destroys the mutually agreed upon basis of modern society, which is the assumption that a person is rewarded, or remunerated in direct relation to their contribution to the economic whole."
http://www.thebear.org/essays.html
It's been a couple years since I communicated with Bear. he should know about black markets. I used to communicate with Pickard, too.
It's Prohibition which creates the crime, not the pot.
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