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Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by ThomPete on Monday January 15, 2018 @04:25PM (#16153581)
Smoking pot is a victimles crime. So if you want to debate morals then making it illegal to sell and thus allow for the tens of thousands of innocent victims who get killed by the powerful cartels in the name of the War on dugs is the most immoral action a government can do.
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Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by tomrod on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:05PM (#16153849)
We absolutely agree on this.

The legality, politics, and forcefulness of this aren't binary objects. The War on Drugs more or less enables the cartels.

The War on Drugs resulting in an avenue for the founding and persistence of the cartels does not absolve the cartels of their brutality, however. That was my initial point, so apologies if it didn't communicate well.

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