2oldman wrote: Blaming drug dealers for the drug problem is like blaming Las Vegas for a gambling problem.
You are so right. How can two neighboring countries allow the illegal import and export of over 30,000,000,000 dollars a year of drugs that kill both sides in large quantities and destroy families, societies and economies? No one can answer that question for me
There has to be more to all of this. Why would a country spend tons of money on failed rehabilitation, security, border patrol, increased SWAT teams, police, detective and undercover departments, and countless other programs?
Something is fishy here and completely out of whack.
I would like to have a solution to the drug problem spelled out and justified. I know lots of folks talk about legalizing drugs and taxing them, but what do you not legalize? Meth is the major drug today in much of rural America and it's not smuggled from anywhere. It's home made in America!
Tell me your solution. I'm sure Obama wants to know how to fix it. I think it's the major problem facing our world's future.
Wm. W. Thompson, PhD
Professor of Marketing
UT-Pan American
Edinburg, TX
I don't have any solution to the harder drugs, but, I would start by relaxing marijuana penalties immediately.
My blood boils when I see all these law enforcement resources wasted on this "problem" that is never going away. Willing adults doing things that are not really hurting anyone, in my view. And M has medicinal properties that the Government can't ignore, but has done its best to try to suppress. I've seen the entire series of "How drugs became illegal" on History Channel. It's quite an education. Not much science going on there.
Do I think kids should be getting stoned? Of course not. Do I think people should drive loaded? No. Do I think people should go to work stoned? Nope. Do I think people should be developing raging marijuana habits? No. But, as with all of society's vices, there will be a certain percentage of adults that will develop a problem. Can't be helped. But does that mean we just keep enforcing unenforceable laws to the extreme detriment of those who happen to get caught? Do we just ignore all that tax revenue, and keep up this incredibly expensive "war" on something that can never be controlled - let alone stopped..?
"We have enough problems with alcohol already, we don't need more" is often heard as a justification. I'm sorry, but we already HAVE a problem. We are, in fact, creating a much worse problem by trying to enforce these laws. It's the laws that are more expensive and harder on victims than the drug itself. For sure, I don't think drug legalization is a "good" thing any more than abortion or gambling is, but, people do it, and we may as well face it and deal with it rationally.
I have to laugh every time I hear "Partnership for a Drug-free America." Are they serious?
"That article doesn't really give much in the way of detail. Kinda hard to deduce they were part of some 'problem' or got what they deserved."
The Mexican online newspaper Noticiaspv.com reported the murders were the result of “an adjustment of accounts.”
These two idiots were both well known by the RCMP and were known to be involved in the drug trade. They got what they deserved and no innocent bystanders were injured. The world revolves as it should.
The war on drugs is a failed policy, like I have said legalize, control, tax.. all drugs... We should try it for three years and if it does not work go back to the old policy.
But I bet that the crimes that go with drug prohibition end over night.
I would say that 99 % of the people can make there own correct choice... you will always have addicts just like you have alcoholics..
you can treat the addicts alot cheaper then what's spent on this failed war on Drugs.
Capt Skup wrote: I still have no clue to why an American or Canadian would want to wander south of the border. Been across the Texas border and California border back in the 80's, from what I saw I never had an inclination to go back. And I am quite sure nothing has improved since.
If your experience with Mexico is limited to a few jaunts across the border, I wouldn't blame you for having a negative impression. There are some nice border stops, but generally they are not representative of what we experience once we travel further south.
Mexico is a big country, and obviously a lot of us have found it to be welcoming and safe. Why else would we return year after year?
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