He was being sarcastic, but he’s right: the prohibition industry that’s sprung up, not to mention the cartels and dealers, will fight re-legalization tooth and nail to protect their turf. Just as the dealers and cartels do now, with each other. The drive-bys, the turf wars, all that’s happening in inner cities and along our southern border NOW. That’s what we’d see if we tried to take away their drug money by re-legalizing drugs. And THAT would would be our GOVERNMENT drug warriors. I’d hate to think what the cartels would do, but wouldn’t it be worth the price just to put THEM out of business.
Then think how good it would be that our SWAT teams would have to go back to working for a living; no more innocent doors to kick in or pets to kill or MARINES to murder.
I disagree, I think that there is still more than enough other drugs that they would not be fighting pot so much. That is not where the majority of the money is made. Though HIGHLY lucrative - there is far more money in other illicit drugs that are far more dangerous that resources could be moved to.
>Then think how good it would be that our SWAT teams would have to go back to working for a living; no more innocent doors to kick in or pets to kill or MARINES to murder.<
Now that’s a joke. You make it sound like that is all that they do. BTW - did you know that that Marine was the subject of a homicide case? Could that be why he came out armed? Your a bit hasty to judge on quite a bit there.
I myself found very little use for SWAT teams. I think that they are over used. But I assure you that most don’t want to suit up for a pot bust either. Most would rather be doing other more important work.
Doesn’t say much for the NARCS to work on pot busts either unless we are talking many pounds. And it says even less of them if they need a SWAT team to make their busts unless the places are fortified.
"Decriminalizing marijuana will only lead to millions more Americans becoming addicted to drugs and greater profits for drug cartels who fund violence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Allowing states to determine their own marijuana policy flies in the face of Supreme Court precedent."
http://volokh.com/2011/06/23/rep-lamar-smith-on-bill-to-repeal-federal-pot-laws/
Correct. I tend to slip into sarcasm more as I enter my cynical old age. It’s almost always about the money in everything. The drug war is just another business model.