I would lock up the Cartel smugglers in Max. and throw away the key or even execute them and not think twice about it. I would also want Max. prison hard time for anyone that helped them in any way with their smuggling. I would not do the same for the garden variety users. There is a huge difference as between the smugglers and the illegals they smuggle and a big difference between the drug smugglers/distributors and users.
Also as you know the Cartels are no longer all about drugs- they have branched into human trafficing, for regular workers and prostitution. They are also heavily involved in identity theft, kidnapping, murder for hire- you name it. I am not sure what you were getting at with your post because I know that you know all of this. When is the last time you heard of a drug user/ not a distributor that was charged with aiding and abetting? Technically it might be, but as far as I know it is not interpreted that way by the courts.
>>I would not do the same for the garden variety users. <<
Without them it would be a quiet business that you and I would rarely hear about, something along the line of diamond smugglers. We’ve learnt over the years that even garden variety users are actually hardcore addicts. Kind of like an alcoholic who does fine as long as there’s no booze anywhere close. Tie a bottle to the headlight of a locomotive and the dumb bastard will kill himself just to get a mouthful.
I’ve seen more people lose damn good jobs for half a pound of weed than I can think of. Sheer idiots with zero self control when it came to smoking dope. These days I’m ready to let them smoke it and go on their merry way, no crime, no time. I’m tired of supporting them in jail and paying for their arrests, attorney, judge, jury and trials. If it’s that addictive then let the Lord deal with them.
That would seriously tick off the dealers because all the profit would go poof and they’d be out of business overnight. The cash register would go from ringing up a million a day to a thousand a day. Pedro would be pissed. LOL