Drug wars - destabilising and corrupting.

Mexico's drug war.

5612 people were killed in Mexican drug wars in 2008 alone. Violence has gripped the country with kidnappings, lawlessness and breakdown of society slowly starting to happen in parts of the country. Innocent people have been caught in the middle of what is effectively a power struggle between the government and drug warlords.

I've been following the war on drugs for a while now, and am only posting this due to the massive surge in increased violence against the government and innocent people all over parts of Central and South America, notably Mexico, Colombia. We focus a lot on the war on terror whilst neglecting that another brutal war,a genuine war, at times has been ongoing that is slowly ripping nations apart and leading to innocent lives being lost.

A report last week accused the war on drugs as destabilising many nations and jeapardizing and corrupting democracy, the legal and law systems in those countries.

Drugs being produced around the world have been increasing massively over the past few years and the amount entering the US shows no signs of abating.

Time to rethink, me thinks on the strategy of defeating drugs both domestically within the US and internationally. If the war on drugs is allowed to continue as it ismany South and Central American nations will for all intents and purposes collapse. The fallout of the drugs wars has already been paid in heavy price with innocent deaths.

This is why marijuana shouldn't be legalized.unholymight

This is why marijuana shouldn't be legalized.unholymight

[QUOTE="unholymight"]This is why marijuana shouldn't be legalized.hamstergeddon

This is why marijuana shouldn't be legalized.unholymight

[QUOTE="unholymight"]This is why marijuana shouldn't be legalized.Hoobinator

[QUOTE="hamstergeddon"][QUOTE="unholymight"]This is why marijuana shouldn't be legalized.unholymight

I say stop, people will always do drugs, your not going to stop it, why get innocent people killed over a war you can't win?Darth-Caedus

[QUOTE="Hoobinator"][QUOTE="unholymight"]This is why marijuana shouldn't be legalized.unholymight

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]I say stop, people will always do drugs, your not going to stop it, why get innocent people killed over a war you can't win?MoonMarvel

I live near the border here in El Paso and going to Juarez in Mexico can be frightful due to the drug lords ordering hits and getting in gunfights with police and even soldiers who patrol the streets and such, and it dosen't help that the news in the mornings always has a report of people found dead almost every day and all the brutal beheadings and threats. I honestly dont know how will anyone stop drug trafficking and such. People will always find ways to defy the law, and the police on Juarez ain't **** neither, hell some of them work for the Narcos. Theres to much corruption.tzar3

[QUOTE="MoonMarvel"][QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]I say stop, people will always do drugs, your not going to stop it, why get innocent people killed over a war you can't win?Hoobinator

It should carry on as it is.SSBFan12

the best thing that can be done is to take a more logical policy. the few places and countries which have "hard" drugs decriminalized generally have a much lower crime rate. amsterdam is an awesome example of this. it's been proven that decriminalization, production and taxation inside the united states could bring in over 10 billion $ in revenue (which could be sorely used, especially now) in a matter of several years. before i get the hardcore right wing crowd saying "if this was true then how come nobodys done it yet, they haven't done it because its *insert propaganda here*" the actual answer to it is quite simple. politicians get funding from tobacco and alcohol companies who don't want their control on their respective industries put at a possibility of loss. politicians don't want to lose the free money they get from these companies, therefore to keep getting this money they keep it illegal. it really is quite simple and entirely political, otherwise it would be legal by now as a large majority of dr's support its use for treating everything from cancer to add/adhd (i used to take it for add until i got put on probation, it affects the seratonin in your brain the same way that amphetamines do but without that amphetamine screwiness) z4twenny

[QUOTE="z4twenny"]the best thing that can be done is to take a more logical policy. the few places and countries which have "hard" drugs decriminalized generally have a much lower crime rate. amsterdam is an awesome example of this. it's been proven that decriminalization, production and taxation inside the united states could bring in over 10 billion $ in revenue (which could be sorely used, especially now) in a matter of several years. before i get the hardcore right wing crowd saying "if this was true then how come nobodys done it yet, they haven't done it because its *insert propaganda here*" the actual answer to it is quite simple. politicians get funding from tobacco and alcohol companies who don't want their control on their respective industries put at a possibility of loss. politicians don't want to lose the free money they get from these companies, therefore to keep getting this money they keep it illegal. it really is quite simple and entirely political, otherwise it would be legal by now as a large majority of dr's support its use for treating everything from cancer to add/adhd (i used to take it for add until i got put on probation, it affects the seratonin in your brain the same way that amphetamines do but without that amphetamine screwiness) hamstergeddon

[QUOTE="hamstergeddon"][QUOTE="z4twenny"]the best thing that can be done is to take a more logical policy. the few places and countries which have "hard" drugs decriminalized generally have a much lower crime rate. amsterdam is an awesome example of this. it's been proven that decriminalization, production and taxation inside the united states could bring in over 10 billion $ in revenue (which could be sorely used, especially now) in a matter of several years. before i get the hardcore right wing crowd saying "if this was true then how come nobodys done it yet, they haven't done it because its *insert propaganda here*" the actual answer to it is quite simple. politicians get funding from tobacco and alcohol companies who don't want their control on their respective industries put at a possibility of loss. politicians don't want to lose the free money they get from these companies, therefore to keep getting this money they keep it illegal. it really is quite simple and entirely political, otherwise it would be legal by now as a large majority of dr's support its use for treating everything from cancer to add/adhd (i used to take it for add until i got put on probation, it affects the seratonin in your brain the same way that amphetamines do but without that amphetamine screwiness) Mr_sprinkles

I say stop, people will always do drugs, your not going to stop it, why get innocent people killed over a war you can't win?Darth-Caedus

Legalize marijuana. That puts quite a damper on anyone's influence in Mexico.quiglythegreat

Legalize marijuana. That puts quite a damper on anyone's influence in Mexico.quiglythegreat

In my civics class today we were talking about the dog searches they were going to start randomly having in our school. Most people in the class did not care about the issue becuase they don't bring drugs to school. The three kids in class who were strongly against it were the obvious pot heads and i thought it was kinda funny. When they were 'defending there case' everyone including the teacher was just thinking that they were part of the reason why we were having these drug searches. It was also funny because one of the kids was saying 'we (our town) don't have the hard drugs like cocaine and heroine' when we all know that he has done crack and you can just go into any neighborhood and find your a heroine adict. The whole thing was very ironic.Dawq902