• @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Not really. Just as killing a person doesn’t kill an ideology, killing a person also doesn’t kill the profit motives for cartels.

      If anything it makes the problem worse. Because you’ve suddenly freed up territory in a very lucrative black market.

      The solution to the drug problem is to instead kill the motivations people have for doing the drugs in the first place:

      https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-teach-us-about-addiction

      This means fixing the housing crisis, guaranteeing people jobs, food, water, shelter, and medical support. It means embracing harm reduction policy. It means ending the war on drugs.

      Drug use is a symptom of an unhealthy society. Fix the health of society and the symptoms will disappear, and with it the cartels as well.

        • @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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          33 months ago

          It’s not a meaningless war. It’s war for natural resources to allow CEOs pad their bank accounts with sweet, sweet government contracts to rebuilding this war torn nation. Also for oil.

          Or we need to show another country how big our dick is by picking a fight with them.

      • @calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        Profits are always a risk-reward balance. If the risk goes up (druglords are more likely to be killed) but the price doesn’t, then the market goes away.

        Most likely they would just up the prices and use the new profits to buy weapons to defend themselves though.

    • @Veneroso@lemmy.world
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      There’s too much money in the drug trade. Violence is a cost of doing business. Thier children grow up safe in the United States, living in luxury from the poison we buy from them. They literally have lobbyists working against drug legalization because it would destroy their captive market.

      Marijuana is still illegal federally and way past Hearst’s hemp boycot to save his newspaper business, hint: it’s the cartels working against legalization via lobbying.

      https://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/8/headlines/hilary_clinton_says_us_cant_legalize_drugs_because_there_is_too_much_money_in_it

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      23 months ago

      It’s easier to fight a gang than an ideology.

      When Bush first went into Iraq, he described it as a Crusade. For some crazy reason, people in the Arab world weren’t thrilled with this language.