How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions

Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions by mikescar on Friday June 15, 2012 @10:16PM (#4119667)

Very well said. The media generally doesn't specify and inter-relate the problems or state them as plainly.

Having a gigantic drug war going on right across the US border in Mexico is a crazy thing to begin with. Add to that it's about owning territory to import drugs into the US, to feed a large demand.

Plus the cartels make bales of money on marijuana sales, when it could easily be a huge cash crop for so many US counties. Job creation blah blah blah.

I'd support legalization and taxation of marijuana, it seems like the honest thing to do since it's everywhere anyway and doesn't seem to destroy people's lives like crack and meth.

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Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions by schiffern on Saturday June 16, 2012 @01:54PM (#4121143)

Legalize 'em all. It's unpopular, but it's the only solution that doesn't lead to ever-increasing authoritarianism.

Drugs don't destroy lives, addiction does. Prohibition drives addicts underground. This makes the problem harder to solve, not easier.

The legal status of tobacco and alcohol are proof-positive that biology isn't the metric that's used. It's politics and big business, pure and simple.

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