Adding Mexico to the Ways Our Anti-Drug Policy Fails
Let me see if I have this straight. The only major market that encourages and pretty much single-handedly supports illegal drug production and distribution in the world today is America. Italians and Danes, Swedes and Dutch all smoke a little or shoot a little, but it’s that great American thirst that supports Coca-Cola as a drink and cocaine as a high. The poor get by on crack and the rich snort the pure stuff.
Item two is that for varying reasons (most of them having to do with poor farmers and ideal climate), the countries that grow and manufacture this stuff are mostly not our country.
Inability to control our own addictions and our government’s unwillingness to de-criminalize drug use have had a socially amazing impact.
Our kids are lured and pushed into stupid choices,
Criminals profit by making them users,
Law enforcement officials are bribed,
Families are destroyed,
Judges and juries are corrupted,
$18 billion a year is wasted,
Foreign nations are put at risk,
Whole populations live in …