kcchiefs6465
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This was with regards to a hearing on HSBC laundering cartel money and the lack of a DOJ indictment.
Legalizing Pot will make Mexican Cartels MORE DANGEROUS!!
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This was with regards to a hearing on HSBC laundering cartel money and the lack of a DOJ indictment.
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When Prescott Bush and others financed a Nazi coup to overthrow FDR, they were not prosecuted because the government claimed prosecuting them would hurt the economy by destroying faith in the banking sector.
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I am a Mexican Cartel member, and I can verify the authenticity of this.
Please, do not decriminalize pot, keeping it illegal will stop me from committing more criminal acts.
I promise. Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.
Please, do not decriminalize pot, keeping it illegal will stop me from committing more criminal acts.
I promise. Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.
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I think it's a good thing to revitalize old threads like this to really see what happens down the road. Low and behold we were right! Check out this article:
https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels
https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels
kcchiefs6465
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_I_drugs_(US)
Marijuana is far from the only Schedule I drug. It's the drugs that it is aligned with as well as it being affirmed repeatedly that it has no medicinal value that makes the entire thing a joke.
Cocaine, methamphetamine, and oxycodone are Schedule II, for starters.
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Well, in all fairness, a lot of bootleggers branched out into protection and extortion and prostitution and all kinds of things when the end of prohibition came.
On the other hand, I don't know of any of these mafia organizations growing when their top selling item became legal again without swallowing a lot of their former rivals in the process.
On the other hand, I don't know of any of these mafia organizations growing when their top selling item became legal again without swallowing a lot of their former rivals in the process.
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Yahoo is trash.
From the article previously posted:
https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels
(snip)
VICE News talked to retired federal agent Terry Nelson, a former field level commander who worked to prevent drugs from crossing the southern border
(Wait what...?)
Given the DEA’s relationship with Sinaloa, and the agency’s fury over legalized marijuana, it almost seems like the DEA wants to crush the legal weed market in order to protect the interests of their cartel friends. Almost.
(Money quote of the century
“The DEA doesn’t want the drug war to end,” said Nelson, when asked about a possible connection between the agency’s hatred of legal pot and its buddies in Sinaloa. “If it ends, they don’t get their toys and their budgets. Once it ends, they aren’t going to have the kind of influence in foreign government. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but where there’s smoke there’s probably fire.”
(So you have a RETIRED FEDERAL AGENT WHO SPENT HIS YEARS STOPPING DRUGS FROM COMING OVER WHO SAYS, "THE DEA DOES NOT WANT TO END THE DRUG WAR!!!!!!!!!")
(What idiot still thinks Your gov't is keeping you safe from boogedity boogedity drugs!)
(snip)
Former DEA senior intelligence specialist Sean Dunagan told VICE News that, although it’s too early to verify the numbers: “Anything to establish a regulated legal market will necessarily cut into those profits. And it won’t be a viable business for the Mexican cartels — the same way bootleggers disappeared after prohibition fell.”
(A SENIOR DEA SPECIALIST JUST REFERENCE PROHIBITION!?!?!?!?!
)
“Why, as a matter of policy, they continue to pursue it is another question. I think it’s ideological. The majority of the agency perceives it as a moral crusade: drugs are bad, and it’s my duty to stop them,” said Dunagan, who now works with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a non-profit association of criminal justice professionals that oppose the drug war and favor legalization
(Wow! There are some who have turned and are now on the other side! I never knew a group like this existed. That's one of the brightest things I've heard in a long time.)
That’s pennies compared to what the US spends on the drug war. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, we spend $51 billion per year fighting illegal drugs. A 2010 study by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron found that not only would the US save tremendous amounts of money were it to end drug prohibition, legalizing could bring in an additional $46.7 billion in yearly tax revenue.
“We’ve spent 1.3 trillion since 1972 on the drug war. What have we gotten for that? Drugs are cheaper and easier to get than ever before,” Nelson told VICE News.
(That's $51 billion a year in toys and budgets and good times playing cops and robbers and being heroes.....Yet it's all a fucking game. And these former agents who played a part in it are realizing it's a load of BS.)
https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels
(snip)
VICE News talked to retired federal agent Terry Nelson, a former field level commander who worked to prevent drugs from crossing the southern border
(Wait what...?)
Given the DEA’s relationship with Sinaloa, and the agency’s fury over legalized marijuana, it almost seems like the DEA wants to crush the legal weed market in order to protect the interests of their cartel friends. Almost.
(Money quote of the century
“The DEA doesn’t want the drug war to end,” said Nelson, when asked about a possible connection between the agency’s hatred of legal pot and its buddies in Sinaloa. “If it ends, they don’t get their toys and their budgets. Once it ends, they aren’t going to have the kind of influence in foreign government. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but where there’s smoke there’s probably fire.”
(So you have a RETIRED FEDERAL AGENT WHO SPENT HIS YEARS STOPPING DRUGS FROM COMING OVER WHO SAYS, "THE DEA DOES NOT WANT TO END THE DRUG WAR!!!!!!!!!")
(What idiot still thinks Your gov't is keeping you safe from boogedity boogedity drugs!)
(snip)
Former DEA senior intelligence specialist Sean Dunagan told VICE News that, although it’s too early to verify the numbers: “Anything to establish a regulated legal market will necessarily cut into those profits. And it won’t be a viable business for the Mexican cartels — the same way bootleggers disappeared after prohibition fell.”
(A SENIOR DEA SPECIALIST JUST REFERENCE PROHIBITION!?!?!?!?!
)“Why, as a matter of policy, they continue to pursue it is another question. I think it’s ideological. The majority of the agency perceives it as a moral crusade: drugs are bad, and it’s my duty to stop them,” said Dunagan, who now works with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a non-profit association of criminal justice professionals that oppose the drug war and favor legalization
(Wow! There are some who have turned and are now on the other side! I never knew a group like this existed. That's one of the brightest things I've heard in a long time.)
That’s pennies compared to what the US spends on the drug war. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, we spend $51 billion per year fighting illegal drugs. A 2010 study by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron found that not only would the US save tremendous amounts of money were it to end drug prohibition, legalizing could bring in an additional $46.7 billion in yearly tax revenue.
“We’ve spent 1.3 trillion since 1972 on the drug war. What have we gotten for that? Drugs are cheaper and easier to get than ever before,” Nelson told VICE News.
(That's $51 billion a year in toys and budgets and good times playing cops and robbers and being heroes.....Yet it's all a fucking game. And these former agents who played a part in it are realizing it's a load of BS.)
