(January 10, 2023 at 10:24 pm)Fireball Wrote: All it would take for the "cartels" to cease to exist would be for all those USians to quit buying their product. Same for the Taliban- quit buying shit from the poppy fields. The US is buying the seeds of its own destruction.
There's some truth to that in that the USA's appetite for narcotics is a substantial source of income for the cartels, however, drugs shipped north are not their only line of business. Much like organized crime in the 20th USA, they've diversified into other business lines, both legal and not.
