Or maybe Americans should stop buying and taking drugs. Then these little drug turds wouldn't have any money to buy people.
I agree. If we stop making excuses why people do drugs(the poor because they're poor, the rich because they can afford it)then maybe we can cut off their source of power and income. The middleclass can't afford to do drugs. We are to busy working to make ends meet.
That is quite true. I suppose you could compare this to Prohibition when millions of Americans were determined that their right to drink alcoholic beverages was their business, and to hell with the law that said otherwise.
I'm really reluctant to get into the argument of what would happen if all narcotic drugs were legalized in the U.S., because some of the biggest FR food fights I've ever seen occurred on those WOD threads.
Yeah, what a concept!
If it wasn't drugs it'd be something else. Do a google on these guys. They're vicious.
It is always more politically correct to go after the sellers than the buyers. Sad, but true. This is the same reason Afghanistan is the number one producer of heroin and there is great pressure for them to burn the poppy fields. Yet the fact still remains that if we stopped purchasing heroin that alone would take care of the poppy fields. And conversely, as long as there are heroin buyers in the US (by far the greatest market of heroin) there will ALWAYS be poppy fields.
Same thing with Cocaine (which is the major money-maker for the Mexicani cartels). If people stopped buying coke these cartels would lose a lot of dimes.
Infact most serious crime could basically be stopped if the users of drugs/prostitutes/stolen goods etc changed. Almost instantly infact.
However, it is always more politically correct to go after the 'bad peddlar' and not have a look at who he is selling the drugs to. (BTW: Most heroin and cocaine sales (apart from the low-grade 'crack' cocaine) are sold to middle to high income clientelle. People who should know better).