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Originally Posted by kane
Prior to the 1960's when the war on drugs went into overdrive, there was a flourishing opium business in Mexico. Their farmers grew it and sold it to US pharmaceutical companies. The entire thing was run by businessmen and professionals and was a normal business. When the war on drugs came around, they started arresting people and burning farms and the legit people left the business so it go taken over by cartels.
Make it legal and it should curb a lot of the violence and craziness surrounding it.
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obviously more heroin, more crack and more methamphetamine will make the world a better place for everyone.
when crack swept through inner cities and nearly destroyed the nation, legal or illegal had nothing to do with it. cheap, widely available and addictive did. thinking that expanding on that plan is a great idea is pure insanity.