We continue in this morass and watch the Constitution and national sovereignty go up in flames.
We make narcotics trafficking a life offense, no probation, parole, no appeals, no chit. [...]
Or we legalize it all and defund the cartels and street gangs that have effectively “occupied” the US, in numbers well over a million.
All that would end up doing is increasing the price of drugs further.
Which would end up doing that? Basic economics says that lowering barriers to entry in a market, such as by legalizing, lowers prices (as the history of Prohibition bears out.)
I was talking about the instant executions and further barriers raised to try and prevent drugs from entering the marketplace.
The only way out of this is to legalize and regulate to ensure safety of drugs, just like we do alcohol.