I'm from a drug & crime infested "burb" mate and have never seen any good come from the illegality of drugs from either end of the food chain. Just people I'd gone to school with- good decent people who would give you the shirt off their back- make a stupid mistake and get hooked and end up in and out of prison for the rest of their lives if they didn't die of overdoses or get murdered due to drug debts. On the other end I saw low life scumbags who I would consider nothing more than corner boy thugs become enriched and empowered beyond their wildest dreams which btw drastically increased their propensity for even more savagery and extreme violence.
The series does a very good job of highlighting the hypocrisy of the war on drugs, as the DEA agents constantly guzzling hard liquor and smoking cigs which kill more people each year than all illegal drugs combined.
if you have a better way to deal with people who skin DEA agents live or who murder people in drug treatment because they don't want o lose a customer or any of the thousands of atrocities they have committed. I am all ears
Yes I will say legalise it- Legalise it tax it and stick a gov health warning on it. That way criminals will never be empowered to the point where they will skin federal agent and have billions at their disposal. There won't be narco states where the actual state itself is attacked and criminals can spend three million dollars on an escape tunnel like Chapo Guzman did.
Nobody is saying their won't be illegal drugs but you'll always have criminals and crime in society, illegal drugs won't make them anywhere near the vast income illegal drugs are making them now, not if they're legalised. Do you really think that people who buy illegal alcohol is a serious epidemic?You have people illegally buying cigarettes today and anything else.
Spare me your man of the world routine, you're advocating for a lost cause and unwinnable war so I'm not particularly interested in your irrationality or arrogance. You honestly think killing Escobar or busting the Cali cartel made so much as a dent in the drug trade, in the grand scheme of things? You're hopelessly naive if you do, seriously. Just got worse and 20 years later it's bigger than ever and you'll never stop it.
You fail to realise that there never would have been an Escobar or Cali Cartel or Guzman if they had have been legal to begin with.
Yes I get that you think that monsters are needed to fight monsters and it's just too bad when innocents get mown down in nightclubs thanks to good ole liquor swilling cig smoking Steve and 14 year old kids get tortured and murdered due to their crooked lawyer dads, I get it.
I find your advocacy of this- regarding human lives as pawns in a game for the "Greater Good" of course- as quite disturbing.
We're not gonna make any headway here but the war you advocate is a crock and doomed to consistently fail. You're simply too myopic to see this. People like you are dangerous and can justify anything, long as the cause is one you consider as for the greater good.
'Bye.
Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!
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