It's a rather simple solution once you understand why people take drugs. Unfortunately it's directly opposed to how economies currently work. The very least governments can do is not make them illegal as the governments are the ones imposing the lifestyles that make taking drugs attractive.
oh btw, the fact that the current increase in violence is directly related to trying do EXACTLY what you're suggesting shows your ignorance of the matter.
Perhaps you've never been to canada? You're so wrong.
agree with mexico though, ot's probably the richest in resources, arguably canada has more minerals we're just not as interested in raping the land.
It'll probably never happen for mexico though, all the hard workers have pretty much already left for canada or the states. The only people left are just the uneducated, rhe ones who feel it's okay to take advantage of your fellowman, and a small minority who are struggling to actually emact change.
However, if you think the US has no responsability then you are naive. Adults shouldn't take advantage of children and then blame the child for doing things they shouldn't for little bits of candy.
Do you know which century you live in and when cocaine was first manufactured? Do you know that cocaine was being manufactured in the US for the past century. Did you know it wasn't even a controlled substance until the 70's? Did you know that trafficking only began shortly after? The deman was in place long before any other country tried to supply the states and they only did it because it's illegal status made it a good peofit.
And yes, the 'crime' fighters are to blamed for increased violence when they previously allowed it and then chose to enact the war to gain financial support from the US and to gain it's favour.
Being a mexican and living in mexico yes I can see that you have little knowledge of the situation here and little knowledge of cocaine. Perhaps you are confused about moderation system because your view of reality is a bit confused. Granted I do see a lot of moderation based onpolitics, but here it seems to be largely your ignorance at play.
I've traveled all over the states and have met some really nice caring people, but by and large that generlaization holds. The problem with the american dream is it practically requires you to step on others to get ahead.
Seperation is pretty much a non-issue in Quebec nowadays. The younger generation realise how much of a farce holding on to a unique identity is when a good percentage of words in the 'french ' language have been appropriated from english. The biggest threats of seperation are from Alberta because they want to keep all their oil money to themselves and from BC which gets fucked over the most from the states and whose forests are dying from US brought pine beetle, so they like to complain about how poor theu are.
Oh I didn't say live anywhere better. I'm both mexican and canadian. In canada the voters are apathetic but we don't try to force our views on anybody else and by and
arge take responsability for our impact, though it's usually positive. We still don't do anything about getting fucked over by the states. In mexico nobody takes responsability for anything but again we don't force anything on others besides shoddy workmanship and cardiac disease inducing food. Oh, and everybody here willingly bends over for the US, they actually enjoy receiving any garbage the states throuws their way.
Btw, i don't think smaller gov't will work for the US. It won't really do anything about the me first, I'm the only one who matters, and i don't care about any other viewpoonts or concerns of others. By and large we do better in canada because we're more accepting of difference and we actually think other people matter.
Let's try and stick to reality shall we? Though regardless of your situations the truth is that US'ians don't take responsability for the actions of their government, and the government doesn't take responsability for their own actions and the actions of their citizens. Government for the people by the people is just a laughable farce and it's so ironic that the country that claims it's the land of free and tries to impose democracy on others lacks both freedom and democracy.
I hope one day US'ians leave their tv's and internet connections behind and actually take responsability to make their country into what they tell everybody it is, and not just something to be ashamed of.
I think you might have responded to the wrong post, probably wanted the op.
Most likely though the majority of mexicans would love you. I'm actually appaled by how american it is already here and how many people are infatuated with the media portrayed US lifestyle.
Human males are well known to basically try and fuck anything in sight that has a vagina, a large portion of things that don't, and even some things that aren't even alive.
Something tells me nerdy scientists aren't the best equipped for this field of study.
and they got that training and weapons from the US, greatest country in the world eh? Wait, didn't they provide arms and training to afghaniatan as well? USA, making the world better one country at a time.
granted us mexicans seem to have a zeal for warfare, the national anthem is just scary.
Maybe you should think it through some more. Canada isn't a poor developing country. You can actually live on minimum wage and have good working conditions, and pretty much anybody who wants a job can have one, hell we even have government programs to bring in foreign workers because we don't have enough of a workforce in certain areas. As well, we haven't been pressured to go to an all out war with drug gangs. However gang violence IS a big problem in BC and there are numerous gang related deaths.
Here in Mexico it's a different stoey, it's literally a struggle to survive, working conditions are horrible, minimum wage is maybe $50 for over 60 hours f work a week and job offerings are few and far betweeen. Most of the jobs available are in even worse woeking conditions for les than minimum wage. The violence is mainly from the mexican military deserters who have been trained to kill, a large part trained by the US. Eliminate the US variable in the equation and things would go back to more normal levels of violence because there simply won't be the economic incentive.
Not that it'll be a utopia mind you. After all, my grandfather was assasinated for trying to improve living conditions of the poor. The government here loves to have a section of the populace they can rape for resources and labour.
Highly unlikely. The profit margin of legal marijuana is about the same as tomatoes. Profits are only high becuse it's illegal. The only people who could have incentive to go legit are refineries for coke and opiates which are non-trivial tasks. Hopefully that would stop the ecological destruction caused by pre-processing of materials in poor countries to give the US businessman something to snort.
They have offered to do this already. The escalating violence is in direct relation to the governments escalation of violence with the aid from the US government. Yeah, I'll prpbably be downmodded again. It suprises me how i got 10 comments downmodded in the span of a few minutes for pointing out the US governments role in all this. What do you guys do to Hillary Clinton who said it first?
They might not get normal jobs but it os/extremely likely that the whole situation would change. Extorting momey from poor teachers isn't done for financial purposes, it's done to send a message to the government. Drug trafficking is a high risk/high reward job. If you take away the high/reward, take away the US supplied weapons, and what you are left with are a bunch of bullies woth no incwntive to risk their lifes and who would make a better living if they just stayed in the mexican military (the most violent groups are US trained mexican army deserters). Really the only parts of orgamozed crime not related to drug trafficking to foreigners or robbing foreigners is kidnapping of rich peoples children. Crime really doesn't pay much here because the people are to poor to make it worthwhile.
The real question is whether the corruption in the mexicna government is worse than the corruption in the US government. Perhaps you don't understand that the US government is already profiting from the US funded war on drugs in Mexico. Your government is also not totally stupid like many of you believe. Getting rid of the current suppliers will accomplish nothing because new suppliers will pop up. It won't do anything for their public image when the drug trade continues. It's a different story in your countries when they bag the head honchos for publicity and then can continue to blame the drug problem on external influences.
It completely blows my mind that people don't realize it's all to supply the drug problems of US'ians and that those drug addictions are caused by US society.
That's an extremely naive example. If anti-gravity was technicaly feasible you would have your car. Even flying cars are under research. You can't compare that with drugs from plants that children can grow and process, and which they are forced to do in many countries!
I really think you have no idea of the differences between the ecomic incentive that the US gives to these poor countries. If the US didn't pay billions these countries would just go back to chewing coca, smoking roadside pot, and wild opium. Please, go do some traveling and rid yourself of your naive viewpoint. The world would be better off.
In a poor country it's an easy choice to do whatever possible, even something illegal, to put food on the table. Why do you think people work in sweatshops? It's ignorant of US'ians to say the people have a choice. A choice between survival or some arbitrary morality isn't really a choice.
Mexico legalizing wouldn't accomplish anything. It's not the production that is a cause of violence, it's control of the supply chain to the US which is where the inter-cartel violencecomes from. The recent increase in victims is is direct rwaction to the US funding an outright war on the cartels. Avoid responsability for your country all yoj want in your head, what happens in reality is something else.
Learn to think. The problem isn't poor countries willing to fight for the right to supply, it's the rich USA's high demand for drugs. Demand creates supply, don't they teach you economics?
You would have to clean up your own house first. Without the voracious appetite for drugs that the US has this problem wouldn't exist. But it's too big of a money maker for the US to do away with. Sure they could legalise, but do realize how much money the US government would lose in une/ployment, taxes, weapons manufacturing, the penal system, etc...?
It's sad so many US'ians saying that something needs to be done militarily in Mexico when they don't realize that the US IS the problem.
Being legal in Mexico wouldn't stop the violence if it was still illegal in the US. People would still fight for the right to supply. As to the cost of policing, you do realize mexico is now making money off the war on drugs right? The US is funding it.
And unfortunately they got the mexican government to go for the same money maker. I guess they figured a billion dollars was worth more than peace and what they received from the cartels.
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It's a rather simple solution once you understand why people take drugs. Unfortunately it's directly opposed to how economies currently work. The very least governments can do is not make them illegal as the governments are the ones imposing the lifestyles that make taking drugs attractive.
oh btw, the fact that the current increase in violence is directly related to trying do EXACTLY what you're suggesting shows your ignorance of the matter.
agree with mexico though, ot's probably the richest in resources, arguably canada has more minerals we're just not as interested in raping the land.
It'll probably never happen for mexico though, all the hard workers have pretty much already left for canada or the states. The only people left are just the uneducated, rhe ones who feel it's okay to take advantage of your fellowman, and a small minority who are struggling to actually emact change.
However, if you think the US has no responsability then you are naive. Adults shouldn't take advantage of children and then blame the child for doing things they shouldn't for little bits of candy.
And yes, the 'crime' fighters are to blamed for increased violence when they previously allowed it and then chose to enact the war to gain financial support from the US and to gain it's favour.
Being a mexican and living in mexico yes I can see that you have little knowledge of the situation here and little knowledge of cocaine. Perhaps you are confused about moderation system because your view of reality is a bit confused. Granted I do see a lot of moderation based onpolitics, but here it seems to be largely your ignorance at play.
Seperation is pretty much a non-issue in Quebec nowadays. The younger generation realise how much of a farce holding on to a unique identity is when a good percentage of words in the 'french ' language have been appropriated from english. The biggest threats of seperation are from Alberta because they want to keep all their oil money to themselves and from BC which gets fucked over the most from the states and whose forests are dying from US brought pine beetle, so they like to complain about how poor theu are.
Oh I didn't say live anywhere better. I'm both mexican and canadian. In canada the voters are apathetic but we don't try to force our views on anybody else and by and arge take responsability for our impact, though it's usually positive. We still don't do anything about getting fucked over by the states. In mexico nobody takes responsability for anything but again we don't force anything on others besides shoddy workmanship and cardiac disease inducing food. Oh, and everybody here willingly bends over for the US, they actually enjoy receiving any garbage the states throuws their way. Btw, i don't think smaller gov't will work for the US. It won't really do anything about the me first, I'm the only one who matters, and i don't care about any other viewpoonts or concerns of others. By and large we do better in canada because we're more accepting of difference and we actually think other people matter.
Glad to see democracy is working out for you in the land of the free.
I hope one day US'ians leave their tv's and internet connections behind and actually take responsability to make their country into what they tell everybody it is, and not just something to be ashamed of.
Most likely though the majority of mexicans would love you. I'm actually appaled by how american it is already here and how many people are infatuated with the media portrayed US lifestyle.
Something tells me nerdy scientists aren't the best equipped for this field of study.
granted us mexicans seem to have a zeal for warfare, the national anthem is just scary.
don't you realise this would accomplish nothing? They all exist to fulfill the drug demand coming from YOU!
It's not done for economic reasons, it's a power struggle based on he gov't escalating it's now US style war on drugs.
Here in Mexico it's a different stoey, it's literally a struggle to survive, working conditions are horrible, minimum wage is maybe $50 for over 60 hours f work a week and job offerings are few and far betweeen. Most of the jobs available are in even worse woeking conditions for les than minimum wage. The violence is mainly from the mexican military deserters who have been trained to kill, a large part trained by the US. Eliminate the US variable in the equation and things would go back to more normal levels of violence because there simply won't be the economic incentive.
Not that it'll be a utopia mind you. After all, my grandfather was assasinated for trying to improve living conditions of the poor. The government here loves to have a section of the populace they can rape for resources and labour.
Highly unlikely. The profit margin of legal marijuana is about the same as tomatoes. Profits are only high becuse it's illegal. The only people who could have incentive to go legit are refineries for coke and opiates which are non-trivial tasks. Hopefully that would stop the ecological destruction caused by pre-processing of materials in poor countries to give the US businessman something to snort.
They have offered to do this already. The escalating violence is in direct relation to the governments escalation of violence with the aid from the US government. Yeah, I'll prpbably be downmodded again. It suprises me how i got 10 comments downmodded in the span of a few minutes for pointing out the US governments role in all this. What do you guys do to Hillary Clinton who said it first?
They might not get normal jobs but it os/extremely likely that the whole situation would change. Extorting momey from poor teachers isn't done for financial purposes, it's done to send a message to the government. Drug trafficking is a high risk/high reward job. If you take away the high/reward, take away the US supplied weapons, and what you are left with are a bunch of bullies woth no incwntive to risk their lifes and who would make a better living if they just stayed in the mexican military (the most violent groups are US trained mexican army deserters). Really the only parts of orgamozed crime not related to drug trafficking to foreigners or robbing foreigners is kidnapping of rich peoples children. Crime really doesn't pay much here because the people are to poor to make it worthwhile.
It completely blows my mind that people don't realize it's all to supply the drug problems of US'ians and that those drug addictions are caused by US society.
I really think you have no idea of the differences between the ecomic incentive that the US gives to these poor countries. If the US didn't pay billions these countries would just go back to chewing coca, smoking roadside pot, and wild opium. Please, go do some traveling and rid yourself of your naive viewpoint. The world would be better off.
Mexico legalizing wouldn't accomplish anything. It's not the production that is a cause of violence, it's control of the supply chain to the US which is where the inter-cartel violencecomes from. The recent increase in victims is is direct rwaction to the US funding an outright war on the cartels. Avoid responsability for your country all yoj want in your head, what happens in reality is something else.
If your government IT department is anything like most countries, I'd say your failure accurately represents where you ended up in life! ;)
Learn to think. The problem isn't poor countries willing to fight for the right to supply, it's the rich USA's high demand for drugs. Demand creates supply, don't they teach you economics?
It's sad so many US'ians saying that something needs to be done militarily in Mexico when they don't realize that the US IS the problem.
Being legal in Mexico wouldn't stop the violence if it was still illegal in the US. People would still fight for the right to supply. As to the cost of policing, you do realize mexico is now making money off the war on drugs right? The US is funding it.
And unfortunately they got the mexican government to go for the same money maker. I guess they figured a billion dollars was worth more than peace and what they received from the cartels.