How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel

Re:How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel by petra on Sunday December 27, 2015 @04:53PM (#10798903)

Actually prohibition was quite effective, it reduced alcohol usage by 30-50% , according to an history professor[1]:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...

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Re:How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel by armitron on Sunday December 27, 2015 @04:56PM (#10798909)

This is an opinion piece with 0 citations. Point us to something better than useless drivel.

These links paint a different picture and make the situation appear less than clearcut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

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Re:How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel by petra on Sunday December 27, 2015 @05:21PM (#10798968)

It isn't drivel, but it may be that more recent historical research paints a different picture.

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Re:How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel by jpatokal on Sunday December 27, 2015 @05:14PM (#10798949)

That's actually a pretty shitty result given that the target was 100%, and the side effects were extreme: people dying from dodgy moonshine, birth of the Mafia as we know it, etc.

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