Like some other things the news pushes, drugs are always on the rise. >While the report said the markets in Africa and Asia were "still limited Maybe because they put you to death for importation in South East Asia.
Having lived in Asia (low drug problems) and Latin America (drug-dominated hellhole) I much prefer the way drugs (and dealers) are dealt with in Asia than in Latam. The idea that waging war on drugs is a bad one sounds like a nut idea from out-of-touch people who have never been to a narco-state like Brazil, Mexico, or Colombia.
Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can make a pretty compelling argument that those narco states developed because of the war on drugs
Potentially, yes. But that case would only be good against poor _execution_ of the war on drugs, not the _concept_ that drugs need to be dealt with as if we were in a war. Activists seem to oppose the concept, which is where I disagree.
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#33One of the favorite conspiracy theories of mine is that Fentanyl is a secret government project designed to scare the shit out of drug users so they stop using due to the fear of contamination.
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#34The drug war didn't give us anything but more dangerous drugs.
It also gave us more dangerous police. Consider how much less armed the police would need to be if they weren’t facing off with an armed paramilitary funded by $600B/yr in drug sales? Policing would be about enforcing mundane stuff, because against the drug trade there really isn’t much money in organized crime.
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#35The drug war didn't give us anything but more dangerous drugs.
I would love to see this assertion distilled further.
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#36Everyone I know who recreationally does cocaine is scared to continue because of the risk of fentanyl contamination.
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#37Everyone I know who recreationally does cocaine is scared to continue because of the risk of fentanyl contamination.
Are there confirmed cases of this happening?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not like this is a new phenomena either. People need to go read up on the opium wars a bit. We have data point after data point about the destructiveness of drugs on people - either it’s fentanyl or more “legal” opiates. The idea of hardcore legalization is the ultimate outcome of capitalism without morality or awareness of consequences.
> The idea of hardcore legalization is the ultimate outcome of capitalism without morality or awareness of consequences. Don't know if I buy this. In general, parties pushing for legalization fall more on the left side of the political spectrum. I can also appreciated that libertarians on the far-right think the same (shoehorn theory?) but on the right this is a fringe opinion, unlike in the left.
Its the exact same dynamic that is destroying liberal democracies world wide.
Re: Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge
#39One of the favorite conspiracy theories of mine is that Fentanyl is a secret government project designed to scare the shit out of drug users so they stop using due to the fear of contamination.