Please explain to me how you think we should deal with the massive narco-terrorist network that the United States is currently fueling. You seem to think this is a simple problem to deal with, and you can boil it down to ending the war on drugs.
I have my own thoughts about what that would or could look like as someone who has worked on the legal and illegal side of the trade my entire adult life (until recently). I’m always interested to hear how people think the functional reality of this might work because generally they haven’t actually thought through the nitty-gritty details.
The narco-terrorists exist more because our “war on drugs” fuels a huge black market. This is similar to how the mafia rose in power during prohibition. The answer to that issue lies more in the legalization of drugs rather than immigration
I’m fully aware of the cause and effect relationship. See where I said I was part of that particular economic circle? The problem is that ending the war on drugs necessarily means legal profiteering by some interested party off those same drugs. You are only replacing illegal cartels with legal cartels. This will have all kinds of wide-sweeping effects, many of which won’t be obvious or predictable, and some of course that will be.
Just so we are clear, I am in favor of legalizing and regulating most drugs. However, you will notice that we are currently in a major pattern of socio-economic warfare against the legal opioid drug cartels like Purdue Pharma. If you think assholes like the Sackler family are bad, wait until you realize what it would be like when every single bio-pharmeceutical giant is lobbying to release designer drugs for profit. It can get MUCH worse than you imagine. Trust me.
Please explain to me how you think we should deal with the massive narco-terrorist network that the United States is currently fueling. You seem to think this is a simple problem to deal with, and you can boil it down to ending the war on drugs.
I have my own thoughts about what that would or could look like as someone who has worked on the legal and illegal side of the trade my entire adult life (until recently). I’m always interested to hear how people think the functional reality of this might work because generally they haven’t actually thought through the nitty-gritty details.
The narco-terrorists exist more because our “war on drugs” fuels a huge black market. This is similar to how the mafia rose in power during prohibition. The answer to that issue lies more in the legalization of drugs rather than immigration
I’m fully aware of the cause and effect relationship. See where I said I was part of that particular economic circle? The problem is that ending the war on drugs necessarily means legal profiteering by some interested party off those same drugs. You are only replacing illegal cartels with legal cartels. This will have all kinds of wide-sweeping effects, many of which won’t be obvious or predictable, and some of course that will be.
Just so we are clear, I am in favor of legalizing and regulating most drugs. However, you will notice that we are currently in a major pattern of socio-economic warfare against the legal opioid drug cartels like Purdue Pharma. If you think assholes like the Sackler family are bad, wait until you realize what it would be like when every single bio-pharmeceutical giant is lobbying to release designer drugs for profit. It can get MUCH worse than you imagine. Trust me.