Nicely written! You bring up some excellent points here about America's 45 year failed drug war. The truth is there is so much money earned from enforcing the archaic drug laws as well as the sad fact that 60% of Mexico's economy comes from the drug trade that I don't think a lot people in power even want to fix it at this point.
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Truth. Look at what happened over there when they did try to crack down on the cartels in the early 2000's. It created a power vacuum and a gang war that killed (by the lowest estimations) 50,000 people. Drugs can't be stopped nor does anyone want to stop them. The question is, do we allow them to be exploited by the most corrupt among us or by the legal market were we car regulate for purity and safety market?
I think Switzerland and Portugal are both good models that the US could possibly build on. Over the cultures and population size of both of those countries are very different, so it wouldn't be a plug and play style solution, but I think a lot of their strategies could be adopted and would eventually make a huge difference for the US and Mexico.
I agree.
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