[SatinDoll]

This “trade” in cocaine into the U.S.A. wouldn’t exist if there did not exist a demand for the product.

How much effort would it take to eliminate the demand here, in the U.S.A., for cocaine? For it is the huge profits from cocaine sales here that is financing the Mexican Cartels’s expansion into other regions in the Western Hemisphere.

One can only suspect politicians in the U.S.A. of having a special interest in seeing this expansion continue rather than eliminating the demand here for cocaine and thus the porous border.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

How much effort would it take to eliminate the demand here, in the U.S.A., for cocaine?

It would take a police state. How did we do on eliminating the demand here, in the U.S.A., for the mind-altering drug alcohol?

[saminfl]

In 1955 I graduated from a very large high school. My graduating class size was about 945. I knew nothing about drugs nor did anyone else I was associated with. The punks from the sixties popularized drug usage and created the large demand we have now. I think anyone could look at the statistics of drug usage before the and after the sixties and see the difference.

Those who try to compare alcohol with drug usage forget that you can drink alcohol without the desire to get high.