Mexico Drug War: Your Thoughts?

[CaptainObvious]

Farmageddon said:

CaptainObvious said:

Highest death by drugs in Portugal was 368 not 600 to 700. Domino effect is this people who are addicted to drugs can't keep their jobs so how will they live? On welfare? I think robbery will go up, prositution will go up, and murder rate will go up. But then again my opinion i  got NO FACTUAL DATA on it but just don't see any positive to legalizing it. Too many people lives are destroyed by it why legalize it?

The logic of you domino effect is allright, but your premise is that  addiction will worsen. Now, if it goes the other way, like the data and history say it should, then the same logic gives the opposite conclusion.

Too many lives are destroyed, true, but this war actually helps destroying lives. It ends up sucking in much more people, people who don't even use drugs, and their money. The war just escalates the problem. Instead of having an addict, now you also have unparalelled power on the hands of the most inescrupulous of people. Instead of a guy losing his job, now you have this same guy going to jail at your expense. Instead of getting money, now you're spending billions on actions that have been proven totally ineffective for ages. And so on.

Supporting this war can only make sense if you believe any alternative would result in rampant addiction. You may well believe that, but you're yet to give any good reasons and evidence for doing so.

I just wish there was a better way that's all. I live in a drug dominate area sometimes want to go Mike Haggar and start punching out people but not even close as bad as Mexico so i can't imagine living there so i'm lucky in that way. Just wish for a better out come in this debate even if i was wrong.