Reply #18: this argument makes no sense at all..."think of the children..." and SURRENDER???

[pitohui]

why would legalizing drugs in the united states have any impact on the drug war in mexico? if anything, it would make it more important than ever to establish your own family as the one that will control the flow of drugs -- this may in fact be what we're seeing now, some cartel WILL be controlling the pot trade when it's de facto legalized

moscow now has more billionaires than any country in the world, the few evil doers who positioned themselves wisely own everything, and the general population has lost 7 years off their life expectancy since 1989

"legalizing" capitalism didn't make it less deadly, indeed, it made it more so

sometimes when you're in a shooting war, "SURRENDER" is NOT the best option or even an option that exists if you give a fuck about the people being victimized

what people seem to miss is that there are more legal drugs in america than at any time in human existence, you would think every druggie and junkie in the country would have OD'd long ago on all the percocet and oxycotin floating around, but they just keep on keeping on, and being able to get their drugs legally, as they often do, hasn't done fuck-all to stop the drug wars around here, beer is completely legal, it's cheap as hell in any walmart, and yet the stupid-ass junkies insist on smoking crack

legalization won't help those children, there may or may not be other benefits to legalization, but right now i'm not seeing what they are

the countries that are not fighting drug wars are the countries that just execute the damn dealers with no questions, not many kids being shot in drive-bys in singapore