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Why would these markets take any power from the cartels? Don't they give the cartels a larger consumer base to sell to?
by grimtrigger 12y ago
Why would these markets take any power from the cartels? Don't they give the cartels a larger consumer base to sell to?
- unchocked 12y agoThey make it impossible for cartels to exclude competition, in the same way they make it (theoretically) impossible for governments to prosecute distribution.
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- aianus 12y agoUnfortunately you still need the cartels to get the drugs into the US which is where they make most of their money anyways. I imagine parcels from Colombia, Peru, or Afghanistan are not likely to fly under the radar.
- dlss 12y agoSmuggling doesn't benefit from more people the way that violence does.
- aianus 12y agoHow so? I'm not an expert, but it seems most of the violence is concentrated in Mexico near the border as cartels battle for prime smuggling territory.
- zo1 12y agoEven us not being experts. Can you honestly say you haven't heard of the destructive and violent effects of drug cartels in the US? Gang wars, turf wars, incarceration due to drug possession, etc.
- tomjen3 12y agoThe pot may also be grown illegally in the US or being sourced from states where such purchases are legal.
- anonbanker 12y agoCan you show me where you're getting the data that most silk road drugs are coming from cartels?
- aianus 12y agoI don't know about 'most drugs on silk road' but I've never heard of people cultivating coca, poppies, or sassafras trees for drugs in the United States. That's three major drugs right there (cocaine, heroin, ecstasy).
- glomph 12y agoEh. I thought MDMA was largely made in Holland and Canada. Hardly hotbeds of violence.