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President Donald Trump has waged a war on Mexican drug cartels
NoCoupForYou saysPresident Donald Trump has waged a war on Mexican drug cartels
Really? By making drugs legal to cut off their source of income?
Yeah, thought so...
Ending the war on drugs by all but eliminating prosecution for possession and handing out free needles hasn't worked well in Seattle, San Fran, or overseas, in Lisbon.
NoCoupForYou saysHow is that relevant? What if they were tourists and didn't live in Mexico?
It's relevant because Mexico has devolved into a dangerous shithole.
While I generally agree on this step being necessary it does not stop a corrupt country being corrupt and criminals will find other avenues of making money and extortion. Mexico needs to do much much more than just us making them legal. Would be a good first step though.
most of them would probably opt for real work, instead of dangerous, low paying gigs.
NuttBoxer saysmost of them would probably opt for real work, instead of dangerous, low paying gigs.
Not so fast:
"During the crack cocaine boom of the 1990s, the image of the millionaire crack dealer implanted itself on the public consciousness. But anyone who spent time around the Crips or Bloods or any other crack-selling gang might have noticed something odd: A great many crack dealers still lived at home with their moms. Why was that?
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So the top 120 men on the Black Disciples’ pyramid were paid very well. But the pyramid they sat atop was gigantic. Using J. T.'s franchise as a yardstick -- three officers and roughly 50 foot soldiers -- there were about 5,300 other men working for those 120 bosses. Then there were the 20,000 unpaid rank-and-file members, many of whom wanted nothing more than a chance to become a foot soldier. And how well did that dream job pay?
They were in a convoy, and the vehicle type might have made them a target(believe it was black SUV's).
Didn't some illegal in California just shoot somebody over a pot patch on public land because he thought they were going to steal it? Yet pot is decriminalized in CA.
Tactics would include street dealers hanging out outside a HS, only carrying the decriminalized amount, and sending somebody back to carry the decriminalized amount to the buyer, or to the dealer for the next customer.
Didn't some illegal in California just shoot somebody over a pot patch on public land because he thought they were going to steal it? Yet pot is decriminalized in CA.
Ceffer saysDidn't some illegal in California just shoot somebody over a pot patch on public land because he thought they were going to steal it? Yet pot is decriminalized in CA.
California laws have driven legalization backwards, not forwards. The expense is prohibitive, and most have gone back to the black market(growing) as a result. Just saying something's legal doesn't mean shit if it cost you a million dollars to grow it.
Right so while legalization is a good way to combat drug trafficking, the politicians need to be kept at bay wrt raising taxes and enriching their municipality/state/country and themselves, otherwise the back market will come back swiftly. CA is a prime example for this.
Even if the drug is 'legal', you can still operate a tax and regulation avoidance illegal operation that can be profitable because no tax or regulation involved. A lot of 'legal' pot growers still sell through illegal channels because they can make more money and avoid the taxes/regulations.
Why do you think the Mafia run cigarettes? You'll still have the gang related turf wars.
The victims, who belonged to the LeBaron family, were ambushed by cartel gunmen eight miles apart on a dirt road in the Mexican border state of Sonora on Monday while traveling in a convoy of three SUVs.
At the time of the attack, the family members were traveling from the La Mora religious community where they live, which is a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. La Mora is about 70 miles south of Douglas in Arizona. Many of the church's members were born in Mexico and thus have dual citizenship.
Nine of the LeBaron family members were slaughtered in the massacre and one child was still missing, Mexican authorities said. Six children were wounded in the attack and five have since been transferred to hospitals in Phoenix, Arizona.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7650129/Relatives-say-5-US-citizens-killed-northern-Mexico.html