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Originally posted by dalan.
reply to post by holywar666
Legalize all drugs and the cartels disappear.
How many Italian mob families are still making huge profits from bootlegging alcohol? None? Yeah...
I don't have to buy alcohol from the shady dealer from down the street, I can buy it from a company like Budweiser. Likewise, if all drugs were legalized, I wouldn't have to buy drugs from criminals, I could just buy them from entrepreneurs instead.
The cartels will never go away as long as there is a "black market" for any good or service. Any jackass who understands the basics of free market economics, or history, knows this.
Originally posted by deloprator20000
We could get rid of illegal plant-based drugs tomorrow, molecular biologists can create a selective pathogen that can kill only illegal drug plants. The pathogen could be a virus, bacteria, or fungi. It could be spread by spraying, insects, birds, animals, native weeds, put into fertilizer and water, etc.edit on 8-4-2012 by deloprator20000 because: (no reason given)edit on 8-4-2012 by deloprator20000 because: (no reason given)edit on 8-4-2012 by deloprator20000 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Rocketman7
You know there was a time when I thought that a Western Hemispheric Union, could go head to head against the EU and China, and the Pacific Rim countries like India and places like Indonesia, and keep up with them in terms of globalization with regards to jobs and industry and that sort of thing.
And if we could not forge a complete union between North and Central and South America, then perhaps Canada, the US and Mexico.
A lot of jokes in there regarding our national pizza if we did. And we could build a new Washington DC, move the capital, to make it more union-like, and add a top tier of government.
The Navy could patrol the coasts, we could seal off the continent in times of need such as pandemic, and we would have natural resources from Canada, money and military from the US, and a good labor force south of the border.
But in order to do that we would need real men, and we just don't have any in government.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
In short modern society is TOO IMMATURE to be able to handle narcotics as it should. Prostitution, tabacco smoking and alcohol are easier to handle. The only thing more destructive than narcotics is gambling, especially if you can't afford to gamble.
Originally posted by Erongaricuaro
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
In short modern society is TOO IMMATURE to be able to handle narcotics as it should. Prostitution, tabacco smoking and alcohol are easier to handle. The only thing more destructive than narcotics is gambling, especially if you can't afford to gamble.
You do realize alcohol is a drug also? And as a recreational drug when stacked alongside others it is considered neither relatively safe nor less prone to abuse.
Classification of drugs appears to have more to do with placing them in their most optimum classification for purpose of commerce. Those that are popular yet garden-variety and would have little commercial value in a free market are generally the ones placed in restricted or prohibited classifications where the prices can be artificially inflated. Those classifications apparently have little or nothing to do with the substance's beneficial qualities nor its potential for abuse.
edit on 9-4-2012 by Erongaricuaro because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AGWskeptic
The easy fix is to repeal our antiquated drug laws.
People are dying all over the world because of our ban on naturally grown and produced drugs.
The blood from those 40,000 dead Mexicans is on our hands.
Originally posted by Rocketman7
reply to post by Violater1
"nefarious agenda" perhaps but still people have to put food on the table and pay the rent. The reality of globalization is that you have to compete globally. You can't opt out without instituting protectionist trade practices.
So to me a more nefarious agenda is to lose your country to foreigners. As nice as they might be, um who wants to give them your country? No one. Everyone has a country, and a culture and to try to maintain your country and culture in another country, is just another form of invasion.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Can I ask in what countries are narcotics legal? In the middle east and asia they actually have the death sentence for narcotic dealers and jail sentences for the users.
That likely means narcotics are more dangerous for the average user than tabacco and alcohol!
Originally posted by Violater1
I respectfully differ on instituting a protectionist paradigm. The first attempt to protectionism, was by President Thomas Jefferson. This was called The Embargo Acts of 1807. It failed miserably, even to the extent of causing more war with the French and British. Historically, additional attempts to protectionism have failed, including the current policies of this and past administrations.
With protectionism, restrictions on goods and labor cause major distortions in the markets, and indeed shrink them.
Originally posted by Rocketman7
Something people might not realize is that you can classify Canada and the US as Olympian types, and Mexico as Titan types of people.
Mexico would be happier with a king, since Titans are a monarchy. So a king or any strong leader like a general or a emperor suits their culture.
In Canada Quebec is different from the rest of Canada because they too are Titan leaning. So you have a different form of law and a different culture and the patron system.
www.thefreedictionary.com/Patron
Same as in Mexico.
So if you tried to unite the area, the best you could would be like Canada and that part of Canada that is Quebec. A love hate relationship that we have had since our inception.
So Mexico would be a state, but a nation state in the union, and as such it would have its own government.