are people likely to commit violent crimes being jailed in large numbers for drug possessions?
it would be tough but in the end they wouldn't have an endless supply of money to keep their soldiers funded and they would walk away. nobody is going to work for a cartel if there is no money in it for them. if mexico keeps up its efforts to go after organized crime they would be able to finally start killing them off even if they moved on to other less profitable crime.
Even though this is obviously the case and old news, it never fucking ceases to shock me with how disgusting this sort of attitude is and how long it has been, not just tolerated, but promoted as a good thing for its creation of jobs. Nothing like growing an industry out of encouraging the enslavement of people hit with a drug code and prison terms designed to maximize profits by maintaining minimum headcount. There is zero logic in the drug war outside of serving the few and punishing the many, so it only makes sense that it continue despite all evidence damning it and strong opposition from nations who have been severely negatively impacted by the policy in place, given the baldly mercenary attitude referenced above. I mean, US drug policy is essentially an attack on the national security of almost any other nation touched by its reach.
I think the solution to ending the war on drugs will ultimately involve negotiations with and the legitimizing of the cartels. Other multinationals are going to want to get in on the game once legalization happens, but the only way to resolve this is going to be to bring all of the interested parties to the table.
What are these obvious reasons? And if you realize that it's clearly obvious that prohibition doesn't work, how is the rest of your post so manifestly retarded?
didnt you read the original post? Your strategy of militarization, harsh sentencing, and brute force tactics has been an abysmal failure and has had zero impact on the demand for recreational drugs. Your plan sounds like a fantastic way to turn Mexico and oither latin american countries into failed states. Maybe you dont give a damn about that, but you should, cause it would hurt the US economy and create a humanitarian disaster.
I don't know why people ask this question as if it's some sort of defeater. I would discourage my teenage daughter from doing drugs, but only for developmental reasons. Later in life? Have at it.
Consult the end of my previous post, that goes double for you.
I definitely committed myself to the position that all drugs are equal. Of course I wouldn't want my daughter to do heroin. I don't think it needs to be illegal for that objective to be realized.
There's a typo in my post, now corrected: I would discourage a teenager from using drugs.
They'd cramp my style too much.
Why should I be polite to people who won't even do me the courtesy of saying things that are factual? When you say that so few of the people who use drugs are able to control themselves, are you saying that most people who consume alcohol are alcoholics? Bullshit.
I don't think that you'd like your 25 years old daughter, who is sadly doing Heroin, to be sent to jail for years.
Maybe if you mean Republican in the 1950s sense of the word, minus the racism. I have some libertarian tendencies, but the current Republican party is so wholly committed to being contra-factual that I can't ever see myself voting for one without first receiving the Phineas Gage treatment.
