I think we need to fix healthcare and social services that orbit drug use before we even talk about legalization of everything. Those industries are not going to go away. They will change with the law, and the shit is pretty bad to begin with, and we don't want that carrying over.
What comes with drug use is sections of the population that just can't mentally handle the shit. What are you going to do with someone who starts hearing voices due to meth use? They don't legally have to stop using it and sending them to emergency psych, well atavan like shit will make them manic AND hear voices, and not sleep and so on, so what then?
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"If you want to control people, if you want to feed them a pack of lies and dominate them, keep them ignorant. For me, literacy means freedom." - LaVar Burton.
Not to mention just because something is legalized doesn't mean the black market is suddenly dissolved. Illegal drugs and shit just takes on a different format. Tarriff and duty evasion and shit like that.
Just like cigarettes and liquor now.
Just to add, I would say that the drug war may have a noticeable trend on illegal immigration, but the cases of political corruption and the police and military being blackmailed and bribed to work for sinister politicians operating Central American govts. may also be another motivation to leave their home country and immigrate here. Although, in some cases, those politicians work for the drug cartels themselves.
And without the cartels quality of life can improve in Mexico We've seen immigration waves from Mexico come and go, its not like one steady massive stream of people all wanting iPods.
I mean seriously, your argument is fucking bizarre. Stable countries grow. Healthy growing countries lose fewer citizens. Eliminating the cartel's hold on the drug market in the US will help Mexico stabilize.
It would not, if anything, the demand would increase in the USA, growing the market for bad people to ship more drugs.
Since they control the supply, and demand increases, the only way they lose value is due to being legal.
You now just eliminate the middle men needed to sneak it in, and can just ship straight to stores.
Hell it may make drug owners even richer, while leaving many more in poverty because the illegal drug trade was the only source of the low end workers money.
The impact the legalization of drugs would have on immigration to the US would be very, very small. Most people immigrate to the US because rich people back home own 99.9% of the wealth and won't share a penny. To get ahead you have to immigrate to the US. Legalization of drugs won't affect that a bit.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
Imagine legalizing all drugs in Mexico. Do you know who'd still have all the power? The drug cartels.
Legal, government production of drugs would be the only way to break the illegal drug cartels and what they do. And no government, NO-ONE, wants to produce shit like cocain and meth just for that.
I think these kind of arguments trend more towards legalizing non-lab-made drugs. Cartels depend on drugs that can be grown naturally because they are extremely low overhead/high profit goods and can fuel production of drugs that don't have the risky requirement of needing copious amounts of public land to produce. Crippling one side of the business effectively cripples the other.
Edit: maybe not so much cripple, but large cartels can't operate on lab drugs alone.
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People would rather deal with ruffians on drugs than immigrants? Fuck that.
Distributing drugs should be criminal considering that people can die from the drugs, even on the first try.
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You seriously expect me to come up with an answer where they would go? They're not gonna go away just because of something like that.