You really don’t pay much attention to what’s going on in the world do you. For one thing, they’re already smuggling islamic illegals into the country at many times the price they can get for a gardener.
any time you take one product out of black market control, another pops up. In west Africa as the UN gets control of the illegal diamond market, they have simply moved into smuggling other things. Charcoal has been surprisingly lucurative. Poaching is another old standby for africa.
Making things legal doesn’t make problems go away and I support decriminalization of Marijuana. However I don’t live with the fantasy that it will fix anything other than to stop filling prisons with nonviolent offenders.
You're correct, of course. Here's the point I meant to make. Since the cartels are in a deadly war with each other over market share, I see no reason why they would not already be maximizing their profits from smuggling terrorists.
As I understand your argument, you're saying that if drug profits were removed, there would be an increase in terrorist smuggling by the cartels. Is that your position?
any time you take one product out of black market control, another pops up. In west Africa as the UN gets control of the illegal diamond market, they have simply moved into smuggling other things. Charcoal has been surprisingly lucurative. Poaching is another old standby for africa.
During the years of the illegal diamond trade, did poaching go down significantly? Afterward, was there a significant rise? As I understand your argument, that should have been the case.
Making things legal doesn't make problems go away and I support decriminalization of Marijuana. However I don't live with the fantasy that it will fix anything other than to stop filling prisons with nonviolent offenders.
Agree that decriminalization would do little to the drug cartels. However, a well regulated legal mj market would deprive the cartels of their most profitable market. Do you agree or disagree with that assertion?