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Taking on the Drug Cartels


World  (tags: world, mexico, south america, Sinaloa, Gulf, Tijuana, drugs, cartels, narco-terrorism, crime, death, marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, violence, war )

Tom
- 299 days ago - latimes.com
After law enforcement agencies broke up the Medellin and Cali cartels, Mexicans stepped in to fill the void. Today, Mexico's big three, the Sinaloa, Gulf and Tijuana cartels, control most of the sales of drugs to U.S. consumers from San Diego to Boston.
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Tom M. (801)
Saturday February 28, 2009, 6:24 am
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Kit B. (183)
Saturday February 28, 2009, 6:31 pm
The best way to end this is probably to end the financial stream, if drugs are legal here, then illegal suppliers have no propose.
 

Past Member (0)
Saturday February 28, 2009, 7:23 pm
good theory kit but what about the young kids who could get them a lot easier? How would you propose to do it?
 

Road LessTraveled (3204)
Sunday March 1, 2009, 11:01 am
The same way that Holland does it.. All drugs are legalized.. Even heroin and needles are supplied, thus keeping criminals from stealing to pay for their drug habit. The government keeps the addicts healthy, because they do not cut them with toxic stuff like arsenic or worse... as some dealers do.

In Holland, drug addicts still work... and pay taxes. Plus, the sale of the drugs through legal government approved channels, ensures safety and low cost.

I would rather have it sold legally, than make criminals out of millions of people... plus fill hospitals with the train wreck of a misguided policy that fights drugs and gangs..
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday March 1, 2009, 12:43 pm
I lived in El Paso fo 9 years, just over the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico. We came back to Michigan in 2002. Before we even left there they were finding bodies in shallow graves, on farms, in barrels, and just tossed on the ground in the Mexican desert along our border. The government and police systems there were so corrupt, they were easily bought off to look the other way for many years until it is now a full-blown war going on. The officials have seen what has happened and are now trying to change their ways, much too late. The people in Juarez live in such awful poverty. We could stand on one side of the river and see the cardboard shacks that the Mexican people lived in. It is no wonder they tried to better their lives with the sale and transport of drugs. This entire thing should have been stopped years ago while it was still stoppable. Now officials are being shot who won't take the bribes.
 

Road LessTraveled (3204)
Sunday March 1, 2009, 3:10 pm
Prohibition does not work, for alcohol or drugs. It just generates more crime, more violence, more corruption and more jails full of wasted lives...

If all drugs were legalized, we would stop 98% of all of the problems, in addition to giving away all of our freedoms... Those accused of drug possession are presumed GUILTY first, and then have to prove their innocence, and fight to get back all of their property and money in any bank accounts, which is the opposite of the BILL OF RIGHTS...


 
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