Comments on: Drug Cartels Flex Muscle In Southwest

CBS Evening News: Explosion Of Kidnappings, Torture Connected To Mexican Drug Rings

[presjfk]

It is my belief that the only way to stop this *** from happening is to get our people off of this terrible drug. If we don''''t buy it, they have nothing to do with it except ruin their own people. This is how our country is allowing foriegn countires to infultrate our nation, being hooked on a drug I wished could be dis-invented. Only a moron would take that ***. Posted by mitchoncbs"

Drug abuse is not going to go away. I wish I was wrong but its a fact. The only question now is how to make the best out of this horrible situation. The priority should be to stop the violence. Making the drugs legal will do that. The we need to create an intense education campaign and treatment program funded by the sale of drugs. The cartels will go away and those addicted will have treatment options now unavailable due to cost, and we the drug free public will be much safer.

[presjfk]

some of you people will work politics into a goat killing.If your relatives were kidnapped because of drugs you be hollering at the american envoy to mexico.the president of mexico has the authority to shut down these people with the military but he is and will remain a two faced criminal of the worst order.a scurge on man kind. Posted by tootall1014"

I hate drugs and the scourge of addiction and the crime that ensues. But wait, it isn''t the drugs that create the violent crime its the drug laws making them illegal. When someone gets kidnapped by a drug cartel, it is the government that empowers the cartel by giving them a monopoly of sorts. It was no different with alcohol during Prohibition, and it wasn''t until the repeal of the law that the lawlessness ended. The same will be true for drugs. Get rid of the laws and have the govt control the substances like they do with alcohol and legal drugs, and much of the problems especially with the violence will go away.

It is my belief that the only way to stop this *** from happening is to get our people off of this terrible drug. If we don''t buy it, they have nothing to do with it except ruin their own people. This is how our country is allowing foriegn countires to infultrate our nation, being hooked on a drug I wished could be dis-invented. Only a moron would take that ***.

[greasykorean]

Nobody has the power to shut down these cartels. As soon as you wipe one out, there is another one waiting in the wings. It''s amazing that this country has not yet realized the fact that there will never be a way to eradicate the violence of the drug trade while drugs remain illegal.

The illegality of drugs is what creates the drug violence we hear about every day in the news. As long as drugs remain illegal there will be incentive for huge profits. Why is heroin and cocaine so much more expensive to the average user than say, marijuana? The stiffer the jail sentence connected with distribution of a drug has a direct correlation to the market price of said drug. The higher the stakes, the higher the potential for profit. The higher the potential for profit, the higher the potential for violence.

[greasykorean]

Nobody has the power to shut down these cartels. As soon as you wipe one out, there is another one waiting in the wings. It''s amazing that this country has not yet realized the fact that there will never be a way to eradicate the violence of the drug trade while drugs remain illegal.

The illegality of drugs is what creates the drug violence we hear about every day in the news. As long as drugs remain illegal there will be incentive for huge profits. Why is heroin and cocaine so much more expensive to the average user than say, marijuana? The stiffer the jail sentence connected with distribution of a drug has a direct correlation to the market price of said drug. The higher the stakes, the higher the potential for profit. The higher the potential for profit, the higher the potential for violence.

[ryindy]

Frankly I''m AMAZED that CBS has even given this issue a second look.

All too often they paint the familiar sob story of an illegal alien facing deportation and leaving childen here for local communities to support through welfare.

[slim1h2o]

Thise are lies! Conservatives live their lives like the Nelson family on TV!

Posted by gop_will_Win at 09:33 AM : Nov 13, 2008

Another myth from the rightwing GOP. Ricky Nelson lost his life while freebasing cocain.

[gop_will_win]

You only lie when you are breathing!! Conservatives love Cocaine. Half the born-again christians smoke dope all the time because "God didn''''t say anything about grass in the Bible so it must be ok".





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Posted by hairyonetooo
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Thise are lies! Conservatives live their lives like the Nelson family on TV!

[slim1h2o]

ROFLMAO!

[honestabe8]

biblethumpar: why not repeal the prohibition and take the financial huge incentives away from the bad guys? those who complain that drug dealers have too much power are like the guy who killed both his parents and then begs for mercy because he is an orphan.