Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Not one of your best posts.
It's a factually correct post.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?_r=0
In the sober reckoning of the RAND Corporation, for instance, the gross revenue that all Mexican cartels derive from exporting drugs to the United States amounts to only $6.6 billion. By most estimates, though, Sinaloa has achieved a market share of at least 40 percent and perhaps as much as 60 percent, which means that Chapo Guzmán’s organization would appear to enjoy annual revenues of some $3 billion — comparable in terms of earnings to Netflix or, for that matter, to Facebook
Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Wait you live in Philly, its your fault, stupid.Face it you got caught in a corner and cant get out.
This will be the third time I've explained to you I don't live in Philly. Fat Albert lived in Philly. If you can't grasp that then you cant be expected to understand anything more complex.
Originally posted by jaden101
This will be the third time I've explained to you I don't live in Philly. Fat Albert lived in Philly. If you can't grasp that then you cant be expected to understand anything more complex.
Prove this is the third time you explained this to me or conceded to lying and making false accusations.
Originally posted by jaden101
This will be the third time I've explained to you I don't live in Philly. Fat Albert lived in Philly. If you can't grasp that then you cant be expected to understand anything more complex.
Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Prove this is the third time you explained this to me or conceded to lying and making false accusations.
Keep running Jaden.
Originally posted by Bardock42i see the war on drugs as the reason why cartels mainly operate in drug trafficking, the same way that prohibition was what allowed the mob to operate in bootlegging back in the day.
You don't see the war on drugs as a major contributing factor?
yet when prohibition ended.... organized crime didn't disappear with it
you know why? because the real incentive is being able to make a buck. booze/drugs/prostitution/racketeering/etc are just means of being able to do so.
so when you say that people who live in desperate circumstances wouldn't bother with organized crime if you took away one way of making illegal money, you are ignoring the real root cause of the criminal behavior. which isn't the fact that americans want drugs but rather the fact that central/south americans want money, and they don't have as many opportunities to get it the legit way.
also... while i agree that certain drugs like pot etc need not be illegal... i think there are other drugs that really have no place in a functioning society and aren't really good candidates for commodities that should be peddled by legit corporations instead of drug cartels.
examples being crack cocaine, crystal meth, heroin....
i don't see walmart selling crack as a positive step forward. i think the drug is destructive enough that people really can't be trusted with it in general.