Drug Wars
We created it. The “War on Drugs” is a creation of the USA, our hardline stance against any kinds of narcotics creates the violent black market which is tearing apart Juarez, Mexico, as well as Columbia and many other South American countries.
We made this man through our drug policies. Mexico’s most wanted man is a billionaire due to our policies.
Drugs are a social problem, not a legal one. If we treated drugs as a health issue and simply controlled their distribution, the country would have millions more in tax money to work with as well as much lower incidence of violence. Very few people get killed over cigarettes or alcohol any more. There is absolutely no reason the same thing can’t be true for “harder” drugs.
We kill our livers with painkillers like Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen and Aspirin, and we keep effective opiates out of use because of how supposedly bad they are. People abuse opiates the same way they abuse alcohol… some do it too much, but for most, it’s simply a nice escape, and a simple painkiller. Hospitals don’t have to detox everyone that they put on morphine. There’s a reason for that.
America needs to rethink our drug policy. We’re perpetuating violence, and the War on Drugs has directly and indirectly killed more innocents than terrorists have.
Edit: I just found an article via Fark.com about how the FBI director’s head is still in the sand.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Hey, have you seen this news article?
New details about Michael Jackson’s Death Emerge
I was wondering if you were going to blog about this…
June 26th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I may. That link was dead, BTW.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Hmm. Is it true? 🙂
July 8th, 2009 at 5:35 am
I wouldn’t have written it if I didn’t think it was.
September 10th, 2009 at 6:16 am
I just finished updating my blog about drug !
November 10th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
One last thing, While the US border tries to prevent any Mexican from entering the border illegally, loads and loads of weapons and ammo enter Mexico from the US. The narc lords are better armed than the police and the army.