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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by vibrunazo on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:03AM (#3760102)
> we continue to shrug our shoulders and keep giving them more money.

Aren't the ones shrugging their shoulders (who are for the war on drugs), and the ones giving them money (who buy drugs), two completely separate and opposite groups?

Don't look at me, I don't belong to neither. But that sentence sounds like an over-simplification of a complex problem.

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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by Taft on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @02:41AM (#3760352)
The correct lesson to learn here is "markets amass when there's demand," or, more simply put, "people will always buy their drugs."
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by lucisferre on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:29AM (#3760163)
Ironically its your's that is the real oversimplification. Fortunately that wasn't the view taken when they finally ended prohibition.

It's pretty well known that you dont get far treating the symptoms.

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