Mexican Drug Wars: Press Freedom Is the Latest Victim

Dimitrie's post mirrors my thoughts. Prohibition has never and will never work. People who want to use will no matter what the government and law enforcement do. All the war on drugs will do is make possible these powerful and dangerous cartels and drug lords. Remove the law and these low lifes would be out a job. Then spend a fraction of the cost to help addicts in rehab on the state level. Tax and control the drug business, create jobs and lower spending on imprisonment. All of the above and more. The "Drug War" is a no win situtation, and will only result in billions more spent and millions more lives lost. Wake up world! The only ones benefitting from these stupid drug laws, are the criminals!

The victims and the cost are so widespread and yet the source of the problem is so specific after careful thaught that it almost is embarrasing to admit.We ,the United States of America,the most envied, most respected super power in the world remain totally enveloped in an all out "war against drugs" ,losing ground as our major cities become ravaged and destroyed from within by imported crack and coke and heroin and our prisons are crowded to the point of bursting. All the civilized and uncivilized countries of the world are effected by the same plague as it threatens to pull mankind into moral destitution and hopelessness. We,on the other hand are the main caretaker of the worlds chief grower and manufacturer of these drugs ,Afghanistan,the home of the people who killed 4000 American civillians and are responsible for the deaths of thousands more of our soldiers dying and being injured severely directly and indirectly through their harboring and enabling of Al-Queda to grow and thrive on their soil and establish influence elswhere in Iraq and other locations orldwide.The country itself has managed to go unpunished and unbelievably in addition it continues to grow the poppies that are the major source of the entire world.s heroin and opiate drug supply undistubed by us or any other foreign power.We have sitting there enough planes to wipe out easily all the poppy fields with herbicides and even salt if you wish in one short move and end the drug supply for most of the world. We ,being politically correct, choose to fight little border wars, house by house arrests, narcotics raids,all for show.We don't want to offend the "warlords".We worry about the poor Afghan's economy over the health of our own society.We don't want to rock their boat.I'm so disguisted over this whole way of thinking that I HAVE NO FAITH IN OUR LEADERS TO HAVE THE WELFARE OF OUR PEOPLE IN MIND IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM.I'm open to any explanation but I'm very disillusioned anymore.

The drug war is a war against the people ...End the war and bring peace...

Since the corruption has been running for so long and so deep in their government, what happened in Cuba 50 years ago is going to happened in Mexico.

Prohibition doesn't work. Legalization of drugs would eliminate a lot of problem areas by providing the drugs at cost plus a small percentage. This would eliminate billions of dollars that presently is going to the drug cartels. This would equate to an addict that has $100 a day habit to a five or $10 a day habit. In the process, would diminish burglaries, muggings, robberies and thefts. In time could also eliminate the national debt.

There is only one choice to be made, Legalize pot !! It will not only take away the profit from the bad guys, and put it in the hands of the government, but will make the streets much safer for all !! As long as pot is illegal, the cartel's will continue to profit, and fight other cartels for the territory to deal in !! They will keep on killing as long as they have a reason to ! Legalize, and you take away the reason.... If there is no profit in selling pot, then they will no longer fight over it !! Then all you have to worry about is the cartels forcing people to buy from them !! This will most likely be the next war... Who is selling to the legal places to sell ?? Will the cartels make store owners buy their pot ?? They will try, and will be much easier to catch, and prosecute !! Legalize pot once and for all !!

Just legalize all of it. If someone wants to be an addict, they are going to be an addict weather or we tell them to just say no. Triple production costs of the companies growing and producing the drugs as a Federal Tax. Then the wholesale price should be taxed at 100% on the state level, and then another 100% tax on at the retail level. The Federal Taxes could be used 50% to National Debt reduction, 25% to Social Security, and 25% to infrastructure development. The state taxes raised should be spent 33% to helping the senior citizens, 33% to anti drug edcation, and the remaining 34% to Treatment for those who want to quit. The local level taxes should be spent 25% for local police interaction with children to encourage staying off drugs, and the rest earmarked to increase the funding to the local school district, with an emphisis on combating childhood obesity.

This is horrible! But, there is a way out. I hope Mexico will follow the example of Radio-Free-Europe, which broadcast news to people behind the Iron Curtain, and Voice of America, which broadcast to troops in Viet Nam. During ther Nazi occupation of Poland, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto put together a radio station that encouraged the Anti-Nazi resistance. Same thing in France. There are other examples of secret radio stations that broadcast news and opinion in defiance of oppressive govenments or criminal carteles.!Que Viva Mexico!!

Boy the War on Drugs is really working. I just saw a report on CNN the other day from the Director of the Southwest Sector of the DEA located in Phoenix and she was going on about how happy the DEA was regarding the amount of drugs confiscated this year. She also stated the DEA was winning the WAR ON DRUGS .... really? Funny that the drug cartels are telling the news papers what to print.