war on drugs

Drugs are bad, mmkay? No, they are not. The Drug war is though. In Mexico alone already 28.000 people have died in drug related crimes since 2006. Finally, the president of Mexico is starting to realize he's f*ckin' up his own country. Well, change something! But skip the debate, just legalize.

Mexican drug cartels are the biggest source of illegal drugs, including marijuana, to the US. In the next 3 years the US will spend 1.4 billion dollars in Mexico trying to stop this. That's a lot... But the annual income of the drug cartels is estimated about 40 billion dollars a year. And that's even more... The Mexican president Felipe Calderon has made the War on Drugs his top priority and his solution mainly exists out of guns and tanks. Does it work? Of course not. You don't need to be Einstein to understand these cartels will not give up their huge profits, so Felipe got his war indeed. A direct result is that more and more people are being killed every day and Mexico has simply become a no-go-area because of all this violence. And now there's even more drugs coming into the US and the drug cartels are even becoming more powerful than before! This War on Drugs is completely hopeless. As Einstein already said: “Insanity is continuing to do the same things and expecting different results.”

"Convinced that the four-decade-old, U.S.-led war on drugs has failed, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and other countries are relaxing penalties for possession and personal use of small amounts of narcotics. The shift away from zero-tolerance policies has picked up pace in the past year and U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has voiced little opposition to the changes..."