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Cooper On Mexican Drug War

March 6, 2009 5:43 PM

Anderson Cooper speaks about the increasingly violent drug war going on between the Mexican government and the country's major drug cartels.

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by sicntired October 18, 2009 5:34 PM EDT
I have seen this drug war from both sides and know that as long as we have a system of prohibition that allows the price of otherwise inexpensive products,some just weeds that grow anywhere,there will be the same result that we had with alcohol prohibition.The police are the enemy,the government is exposing it's citizens to tyranny in their own homes and they use drug laws to steal from people who can't prove they paid for their homes with hard work.When this many people are being negatively affected,when 1 in 100 000 are in prison,and prison has become an industry fed mostly by the poor and drug addicted,your country has seriously lost it's way.It will take a generation or two to turn this mess around but until prohibition ends that process will never have a chance to begin.I have been an opium addict for 40 years and nothing the government has done to me has changed that.I know this problem intimately and we will never start finding a way out under prohibition.It's the apple in the garden all over and it never helps to just say no.
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by Patrick Sperry October 16, 2009 8:52 PM EDT
Wrong! On so many levels. The way to end the violence is not by restricting the unalienable rights of any people any where.

Hit the cartels and gangs where it hurts them the most. In their pocketbook. End the drug war. Totally, and and there will be no money to fund all the narco-terrorists.

Sound cold blooded? Yes, I am a cold blooded Libertarian. That is why I blog at Conservative Libertarian Outpost. Raise your children yourselves and don't allow the government take your responsibility for doing so. Hold yourself accountable, in all things, good and bad. Learn from your mistakes,and teach your children the lessons that you learned. Like not to smoke dope...

End the drug war. Period. We can work out the details later. Just don't make a marketplace by taxation that is prohibition like, and keep medicinals pure and uncorrupted.
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by rjcarvalho February 28, 2009 1:42 AM EST
what percentage of the drug money has to do with marijuana? 10% ,25 % or even 50%?

The drug war cannot be won as simple supply/demand only makes the business and the contraband more valuable.

Now if citizens were allowed to grow a few plants for personal use, it would reduce the out flow of cash to mexico by what percent?

I would never suggest cocaine or meth be legalized but if marijuana had no value, that would allow a greater resistance to the greater threat
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