Legalization and Drug Cartels

[Kongfuzi]

I hate the idiots who believe that legalizing marijuana, cocaine, or "drugs" in general would help fight the drug cartels. No, it wouldn't. It would only anger them and make drug violence all the worse. The drug cartels make billions every year and have billions, possibly trillions in reserve. By legalizing drugs you would be cutting off their number one income, which may sound appealing in the short term, but will only anger them in the long run. By cutting off the drug cartels' profit, they will turn to other, much worse acts of violence in an attempt to bring their enterprise back. What is now a battle will turn to a war as the Mexicans attempt to force the weak of mind addicts into their thrall rather than whichever American company decides to get bigger in the field of vice. Assassinations on American companies would run rampant, and soon we would have to purge Mexico just to stop the blatant outlawism.

Any thoughts?

[Scarface]

I think you have just stated the complete obvious.

[N30Chaos]

I can describe your post with two words.

"Obvious shit."

[Lintire]

You have a firm grasp of the obvious.

Originally I wasn't going to justify this with a comment, but I figured that most of the people who wanted drugs legalized just wanted Marijuana out there - which I incredibly doubt is going to accelerate drug violence. I didn't really know that there were any people stupid enough to fight for total drug legalization.

[SpaceWhale]

Marijuana shouldnt be legalized.

I mean, I'm not against it, but legalizing it will turn it from something you love to smoke into something you need to smoke.

[Erty]

At 9/12/10 02:39 AM, Lintire wrote: You have a firm grasp of the obvious.

Originally I wasn't going to justify this with a comment, but I figured that most of the people who wanted drugs legalized just wanted Marijuana out there - which I incredibly doubt is going to accelerate drug violence. I didn't really know that there were any people stupid enough to fight for total drug legalization.

Me neither. If marijuana is legalized and controlled, like in Netherlands, it won't really interrupt drug dealers main income which is heavier drugs like cocaine.

[Leidolfr]

if the government sold drugs theyd put the drug dealers out of business with sheer convenience, i of course, have never done drugs, ever, and, it totally shows

[homor]

At 9/12/10 02:08 AM, Kongfuzi wrote: I hate the idiots who believe that legalizing marijuana, cocaine, or "drugs" in general would help fight the drug cartels.

You can't get too mad at those guys, they're high all the time.

[Fim]

Never has such a complex arguement been phrased made so poorly