Mexican Drug war in pics (boston.com)

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: Wreckem

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI...ation.drugs/index.html

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Misc/roe1.htm

You are a fool to believe just legallizing drugs would end the cartel violence.

A few select people control the MAJORITY of the drugs flowing into the US. They are MORE powerful than the governments of South America. They have tens of thousands of police, military and government officials on their payroll. 70% of the police force in Cidudad Juarez was on various cartel payrolls back in 2007.

The reason this current cartel war is going is is the #1 man went down a couple years ago and no everyone wants to be the new #1 man. They will continue their war because of $$$.

Diamonds are legal. They still spark tremendous violence in Africa. This violence has nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with money and control of supply.

The diamond comparison is invalid. Drugs can be cheaply and easily grown anywhere in the world. Naturally formed diamonds are a natural resource that can't be grown.

There will always be something though. They aren't going to legalize all drugs. If anything, they will just legalize marijuana, which might help a little bit, but there will still be plenty of cocaine to be illegally imported.

Do you live in the USA? Here "They" are "We". We just need to stop gobbling down obvious propaganda and fear mongering, look at the actual evidence, and learn something form our past history. We could then change the laws very easily.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

A police officer walks on packages of cocaine in Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport on the Pacific coast, Monday, March 23, 2009. Colombian police had seized 3.5 tons of cocaine in a container of vegetable grease bound for Mexico. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) #

insane amount right there... INSANE.

wow, it gets even better

A member of the Army watches the incineration of fourteen tons of drugs in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on December 2, 2008. (J. Guadalupe PEREZ/AFP/Getty Images) #

talk about getting it at the source. Shows like DEA, vice cops, and manhunters talk about 1-2 kilos being huge, which is, but man TONS of the stuff is a big deal. :thumbsup:

 

[FelixDeCat]

So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

 

[ric1287]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Worked for booze.

No one should be prevented from putting whatever they want to into themselves either. I am for this for MANY more reasons than the FACT that it will ELIMINATE street gangs in the US withing 1 year.

You logic that not legalizing because there are corrupt politicians is flawless...

hahaha, yep this would solve all out gang problems and it would be Utopia!!!!

Its a full proof plan, all the dumb motherfuckers who are in gangs will see the error in their ways and go back to school, become doctors and engineers....there's not a chance in hell they would just find some other harmful way to make money.

Where do you get your "facts" from?

*idiot spelling edit

 

[Triumph]

A border patrol vehicle drags the sand to make any new footprints of border crossers more visible along a recently constructed section of the controversial US-Mexico border fence expansion on previously pristine desert sands on March 14, 2009 between Yuma, Arizona and Calexico, California. (David McNew/Getty Images) #

Controversial? I think most people support the fence. A few detractors does not controversy make.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

each one of these deaths is a direct consequence of the US's war on drugs

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Fuck you pal. I smoke pot, should I be locked away? How about we lock up some AIG high rollers instead?

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Is this a joke?

 

[TheInternet1980]

Double borg post = win.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Triumph

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Is this a joke?

Is drug use funny?

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Fuck you pal. I smoke pot, should I be locked away? How about we lock up some AIG high rollers instead?

lawfully the answer is yes....depending on what you have on you, your age, and your previous offenses i think.

 

[darkxshade]

Counter-Terrorists Win!!!

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Fuck you pal. I smoke pot, should I be locked away? How about we lock up some AIG high rollers instead?

lawfully the answer is yes....depending on what you have on you, your age, and your previous offenses i think.

It's decriminalized to some extent in Ohio.

I'd need to have a shit ton of reefer on me to get anything more than a ticket here.

To be more precise, I'd need to have over 200g, to get into felony territory. Less than 100g is a civil citation and a $100 fine.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

When will people learn that this doesn't do anything to solve the problem?

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Fuck you pal. I smoke pot, should I be locked away? How about we lock up some AIG high rollers instead?

lawfully the answer is yes....depending on what you have on you, your age, and your previous offenses i think.

It's decriminalized to some extent in Ohio.

I'd need to have a shit ton of reefer on me to get anything more than a ticket here.

yeah, it ranges...personally I do not care if anyone smokes pot...as long as it's not near/around me to bug me. But the other 'hardcore' drugs should be/stay banned.

The thing that always had me curious is what IF they do legalize pot/growing/selling(as a licensed seller of course)..what happens to people who are doing time, or did time for it?

Man that'd suck!

 

[Eomer of Aldburg]

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Fuck you pal. I smoke pot, should I be locked away? How about we lock up some AIG high rollers instead?

Amen to that :thumbsup:

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Fuck you pal. I smoke pot, should I be locked away? How about we lock up some AIG high rollers instead?

Put down the crack pipe, dude. I called for locking up AIG execs as a bonus for bankrupting the company, but I guess you were too busy smoking bud to give a sh*t about looking it up and would rather play an ebadass. :roll:

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
yeah, it ranges...personally I do not care if anyone smokes pot...as long as it's not near/around me to bug me. But the other 'hardcore' drugs should be/stay banned.

The thing that always had me curious is what IF they do legalize pot/growing/selling(as a licensed seller of course)..what happens to people who are doing time, or did time for it?

Man that'd suck!

I would hope they would be let out, and their records cleared. But honestly, I doubt that would happen. They'd sit in the can for something that's legal now.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

When will people learn that this doesn't do anything to solve the problem?

I know lots of people that have gotten clean by being locked up. It does wonders for addicts. You'd be surprised. :laugh:

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: TheInternet1980

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Fuck you pal. I smoke pot, should I be locked away? How about we lock up some AIG high rollers instead?

Put down the crack pipe, dude. I called for locking up AIG as a bonus for bankrupting the company, but I guess you were too busy smoking bud to give a sh*t about looking it up and would play an ebadass. :roll:

Sorry I do not subscribe to your posts? 😕

crack pipe != Marijuana use.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Triumph

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Is this a joke?

Is drug use funny?

You do know that we already lock up drug users, right?

 

[thereds]

Originally posted by: ric1287

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
Worked for booze.

No one should be prevented from putting whatever they want to into themselves either. I am for this for MANY more reasons than the FACT that it will ELIMINATE street gangs in the US withing 1 year.

You logic that not legalizing because there are corrupt politicians is flawless...

hahaha, yep this would solve all out gang problems and it would be Eutopia!!!!

Its a full proof plan, all the dumb motherfuckers who are in gangs will see the error in their ways and go back to school, become doctors and engineers....there's not a chance in hell they would just find some other harmful way to make money.

Where do you get your "facts" from?

From Urope.

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: Triumph

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Triumph

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
So many people are dying just for others to get high and rich - so senseless. We need to lock up the drug users in the USA once and for all.

Is this a joke?

Is drug use funny?

You do know that we already lock up drug users, right?

He wants all of them locked up. Apparently even in cases where states have, to a large extent, decriminalized the substance in question.

 

[rudder]

#9 - O THE MANATEE

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Wreckem

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI...ation.drugs/index.html

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Misc/roe1.htm

You are a fool to believe just legallizing drugs would end the cartel violence.

A few select people control the MAJORITY of the drugs flowing into the US. They are MORE powerful than the governments of South America. They have tens of thousands of police, military and government officials on their payroll. 70% of the police force in Cidudad Juarez was on various cartel payrolls back in 2007.

The reason this current cartel war is going is is the #1 man went down a couple years ago and no everyone wants to be the new #1 man. They will continue their war because of $$$.

Diamonds are legal. They still spark tremendous violence in Africa. This violence has nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with money and control of supply.

Making the market legal would cause the cartels to collapse because there would be nothing to inflate the costs (and thus fight over). Profit margin will be reduced to a fraction of what it is now and US companies will eagerly fill the supply side of the void.

You honestly think the cartels would go down without a fight. There would be massive blood shed for decades before any collapse of the cartels would happen. Competitors would have to get the product to market.