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RE: opinion: Mexican drug cartels are worse than ISIL
Mexican Drug Cartels would be much easier to defeat than ISIL.
Decriminalize ALL drugs like Portugal did more than a decade ago.
Drug crime, drug abuse, HIV due to drugs, etc are all at an all time low in Portugal due to this.
Similar things are seen in other places that decriminalize/legalize even one drug.
BANNING things creates a black market. Black markets are powerful, and also an avenue of corruption for our governments.
If the things are not banned it becomes difficult for the black market criminal organizations to stay in business. At least as a criminal entity.
The War on Drugs is the best thing to ever happen to Mexican Drug Cartels, corrupt political families, and drug enterprises globally.
Totally agree. Prohibition promotes these cartels just like the prohibition against alcohol expanded the Italian-American Mafia.
Even if the cartels just end up making something else that's illegal, you're still forcing them to change their entire operation at an enormous cost. Meanwhile the legalized areas rake in their former profits in the form of taxes.
What is really interesting about Prohibition that most people don't realize is how many of our powerful political families today (e.g. Kennedys) made their fortunes off of bootlegging during prohibition.
It was a quick way to money and money is a quick way to power over corrupt Washington D.C.
So I don't understand why people can't realize the extreme likelihood of powerful families (e.g. Clintons) doing the same in this day and age. It is in their best interest to convince us to ban things. Then they can do backdoor deals with those in the black market.
Ban guns... what do you think will happen? Black Market. It won't stop people from having them.
BANNING is bad. If people commit a crime such as murder, assault, theft while they are on drug X or while they are holding weapon Y then truly X and Y don't matter. Charge them with murder, assault, or theft... we already have laws for those things that don't require banning and penalizing people who have not committed crimes.
Yet there is money in banning.