One more reason the US should stop their counterproductive war-on-drugs and legalize them - one would assume it would pretty-much eliminate these huge drug-cartels (analogous to when alcohol was made illegal during Prohibition giving rise to large violent gangs that wanted to dominate the alcohol black-market).
Might slow them down but they would still extort and traffick people and drugs they aren't going to just stop making money, and even if everything is legal people still use the black market, those cartels aren't going to just disappear if you legalize all drugs.
It could happen in TJ, in fact TJ has a very high murder rate but because of the money involved the carteles who control the Zona Notre make sure it is relatively safe for the tourism dollars to continue flowing.
In the Zona Notre there is a usually police and military personnel maintaining a sembelence of control.
There will always be organized crime but it seems drug-trafficking makes it more violent for w/e reason - I would think if illegal drugs were taken out-of-the-equation that there would be less violence although there would still be other types of crimes
Seems people are gonna use whether it's legal or illegal - I doubt it being legal would increase use; actually one can argue it being illegal may somehow increase use as it being kinda a forbidden-fruit or a rebellious kinda thing - i.e. the cost of users will be there whether legal or illegal and one can def argue the $$$ saved from fighting the war-on-drugs can best be served for treatment which is needed whether drugs are legal or illegal.
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One more reason the US should stop their counterproductive war-on-drugs and legalize them - one would assume it would pretty-much eliminate these huge drug-cartels (analogous to when alcohol was made illegal during Prohibition giving rise to large violent gangs that wanted to dominate the alcohol black-market).
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In the Zona Notre there is a usually police and military personnel maintaining a sembelence of control.
There will always be organized crime but it seems drug-trafficking makes it more violent for w/e reason - I would think if illegal drugs were taken out-of-the-equation that there would be less violence although there would still be other types of crimes
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And who is going to pay the coat of the damage caused by drug use? A voluntary force? I think not, and you know exactly who!
Seems people are gonna use whether it's legal or illegal - I doubt it being legal would increase use; actually one can argue it being illegal may somehow increase use as it being kinda a forbidden-fruit or a rebellious kinda thing - i.e. the cost of users will be there whether legal or illegal and one can def argue the $$$ saved from fighting the war-on-drugs can best be served for treatment which is needed whether drugs are legal or illegal.