Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:

Mexican police arrest and release El Chapo's son, Ovidio Guzman, after intense gunfight.

$billions worth of profits and corrupt government members getting a hefty slice of it.

After all, what would patriots do, spend all that money (c. £6 billion a year in the UK?) on schools and hospitals?

If the US government would turn their military attention away from the Middle East and toward cleaning out the drug cartels that infest their neighbour, they would LITERALLY make the world a better place, solve their border crisis and strike a major blow against the war on drugs.

Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:

If the US government would turn their military attention away from the Middle East and toward cleaning out the drug cartels that infest their neighbour, they would LITERALLY make the world a better place, solve their border crisis and strike a major blow against the war on drugs.

Sigh, you know me, I don't like to start an argument.

Especially not with a full frontal attack on the US for the whole "War on Drugs" as is fuelling Civil Wars in so many places.

BerrySteph said:

Sigh, you know me, I don't like to start an argument.

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I'm a pussy-cat.

I firmly believe that the problem of drugs would practically vanish if the supply was under gubbermint control. Or at least, shrink entirely from the public space as the "problems" became almost entirely restricted to medical problems (even those probalby being much less under a regulatory system).

And that the reason this is not happening is that the CIA (and maybe parts of UK covert activities?) are funded by drug-dealing.

That's what the US is doing in Afghanistan for 18 years. The Taliban didn't even recognise the gold-mine they were sitting on and were leaning on it when the US attacked them and took over their enormously profitable export.

Like I said, I'm just a pussy-cat.