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The US funds these cartels with its ludicrous war on drugs. Decriminalization would fix so many things. China gets to turn the historical tables on the Opium w
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
The US funds these cartels with its ludicrous war on drugs. Decriminalization would fix so many things.
China gets to turn the historical tables on the Opium wars.
And it's not like the US/EU banking system isn't complicit in money laundering. When they get caught, they are handslapped a pittance. And we tolerated outrageous opium farming by the former corrupt Afghanistan government.
The US needs a rational policy to deal with its bored suburban teenager problem that is turning Latin america into a dual-continent mafia state that puts Putin to shame.
- Ekaros 4y agoRational and moral solution would be total free market... But I don't see that happening. Just too much power, control and publicity in totalitarianism.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoTotally unregulated capitalism is what cartel wars are. A prohibition on murder is a regulation. In a totally free market a corporation could murder to obtain market advantage. This is what criminal economics involves. But of course free market zealots won't want to allow unregulated murder. There's no assurance of property rights (which is also regulation). So there are no true free market advocates, merely people that want to set the regulation boundary to the point that maximally benefits them.