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The Price of Prohibition

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The Price of Prohibition
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The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 3:33 am (This post was last modified: May 18, 2012 at 3:34 am by Hovik.)
Mexico's Drug War: 50,000 Dead in 6 Years (NSFW images) - This is the cost of government putting profit before people. That's 50,000 people dead, more than the combined casualties of the American Revolutionary War (which lasted 8 years, I should add).

What are your perspectives on this?
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 3:37 am
I'll really throw my two-cents in after this thread gets rolling, but there is death and gore in the link. The weak of heart need not click.
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 4:11 am
Meh. We have our own smugglers to deal with, and I hope for more casaulties on their side.
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 4:13 am (This post was last modified: May 18, 2012 at 4:14 am by Hovik.)
(May 18, 2012 at 4:11 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Meh. We have our own smugglers to deal with, and I hope for more casaulties on their side.

It's not that kind of war. The casualties are very often innocent people caught in the middle.

If you're going to bring your nationalistic, racist ideas into this, you're just going to be ignored.
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 4:15 am
(May 18, 2012 at 4:13 am)Hovik Wrote:
(May 18, 2012 at 4:11 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Meh. We have our own smugglers to deal with, and I hope for more casaulties on their side.

It's not that kind of war. The casualties are very often innocent people caught in the middle.

If you're going to bring your nationalistic, racist ideas into this, I'm just going to ignore you.
Well, how does one get caught in the middle, if one is innocent?
Do you mean like buyers?
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 4:32 am
Buyers...and their innocent families.
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 4:34 am
(May 18, 2012 at 4:32 am)Tiberius Wrote: Buyers...and their innocent families.

It's best that any respective government offers alternatives to people who must get involved in this ugly business. But there are people in the Mexican and US governments that profit from this business.
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 9:36 am
But Tiberius...it is their RIGHT to be as they see fit. Is it not??
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 10:14 am
the subject of this thread is perfect(ly stated). this is certainly a problem that could be addressed for the simple cost of an open mind.
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RE: The Price of Prohibition
May 18, 2012 at 10:39 am
(May 18, 2012 at 9:36 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: But Tiberius...it is their RIGHT to be as they see fit. Is it not??
Yes...it's their right to use drugs. It's not the government's right to dictate what people choose to put into their own bodies. That is when innocent people get caught in the crossfire.
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