Drug War Facts - Statistics if Drugs Were Legal
"You have to take the money out of it. Many people talk about legalization and decriminalize — it's still illegal, but you're just not sending as many people to jail, especially for the nonviolent offenses. However, the money is still being made in the illegal sales, so you still have the drug wars. It's prohibition that's killing our people. That's why people are dying."
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I think this is a very interesting standpoint, even though is is obviously the road less traveled. Although, I don't like that the author compared Mexico's laws to the U.S.'s laws. The "wait around and see" theory is going to fail; there should be careful calculations when it comes to dealing with hundreds of thousands of people's lives.