Slightly OT: Mexican Militias

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Brother in Arms

But lets face it when you have millions of American dollars in Dope money you can pretty much do what you want were ever you want. And in my opinion government wants these illegal drugs and the associated crime that goes with it in the country for there own reasons. A well as illegal aliens (which amounts to legal slavery, but slaves that pay taxes!!!) also human sex trafficking. It all adds up to a lot of money, bribes, extortion and increased budgets for government types. I think everyone is on the take.

Surely it would be better to legalise (under tight regulation) some of the currently illegal drugs, tax the hell out of them, treat the inevitable addiction problems as a health issue rather than a criminal issue, and use some of the resulting massive revenue stream to help enforce the system and greatly improve accessibility to the healthcare system?

I mean, that might seem like crazy lefty talk, but is the system in place now working very well? I would say that very clearly it's not.