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In reply to the discussion: This seems HUGE! OK so we woke up this morning only to hear that a luxury yacht [View all]wnylib
(21,346 posts)20. "Prohibition doesn't work."
Neither do a society's laws against murder prevent murders from happening. Should we legalize murder? That's not just hyperbole. Drug addictions kill.
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malaise
Sep 2021
OP
I am assuming that the argument in favor of legalizing all drugs has to do with
Beastly Boy
Sep 2021
#9
In cases like this, it would depend on who profits from the sales of drugs.
Beastly Boy
Sep 2021
#11
But the for profit prisons provide cheap help desk services to the Corporations.
Tommymac
Sep 2021
#34
A sharp observation: DEA and the cartels appear to have developed a symbiotic relationship.
Beastly Boy
Sep 2021
#26
Indeed. But I didn't want to afford them the dignity of excluding them from being called criminals
Beastly Boy
Sep 2021
#31
so you are pro-drug cartels getting tax free money from a business monopoly?
ZonkerHarris
Sep 2021
#44
They should have been flying an Aussie flag and they wouldn't have been stopped, maybe ;)
joetheman
Sep 2021
#2
If you're running two tons of blow in one shipment, any yacht is a burner yacht
jmowreader
Sep 2021
#14