• @[email protected]
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    310 months ago

    That wouldn’t help

    The problem isn’t drug use in Mexico, the problem is drugs going to the US

    • @undergroundoverground
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      110 months ago

      Yes to the first part but what do you think would happen to the American drug market if they did that?

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              110 months ago

              Thats literally the point I’m making. I don’t get what you don’t get here.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            That legalization of drugs in Mexico isn’t going to get rid of cartels

            That is very obvious in my first comment where I say it won’t help

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              Okay but you are aware that you just declared it wouldn’t help, despite evidence to the contrary right?

              https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/14/legal-marijuana-medical-use-crime-rate-plummets-us-study

              https://www.sandiego.edu/news/detail.php?_focus=84160

              It cuts into their profits given them less clout and less reason to kill each other. As such, it will help, as can be seen with the example of weed.

              Edit: in fact, the only reason drugs remain illegal at all is because some very wealth and powerful people make too much money from it remaining so. Well, that and so the CIA can fund illegal wars around the world.

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                You are aware that your articles talk about American legalization and are irrelevant to the topic at hand because the Mexican president doesn’t not hold jurisdiction over the US

                • @undergroundoverground
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                  110 months ago

                  Of course I’m aware.

                  Wait, are you trying to tell me you think it wouldn’t translate into helping, if they did it on the other side of the boarder too? I have to check because that’s pretty wild.

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                    110 months ago

                    We are only talking about Mexico here

                    Mexico having a policy of legalizing all drugs isn’t going to stop the violence because the violence comes from people selling to the US. No cartel is worried they are going to get arrested in Mexico for having these substances