Reply #49: Is your argument so weak you must resort to insults? [View All]

[Flaneur]

Nobody is saying these Mexican narcos are nice guys.

The US officially acknowledged the role of unrelenting demand in Mexico's drug wars this year.

But the fact remains that our prohibitionist policies have generated yet another Frankenstein monster. US demand for drugs would not be causing 15,000 murders in the past three years in Mexico absent the prohibition regime. It perversely rewards the most intelligent, amoral, and ruthless with wealth beyond imagination while failing to stop Americans from using the drugs they want to use--not to mention the other ugly consequences it brings us.

The Mexican narcos are prohibition's gift to all of us.

It's gifting us nicely in Afghanistan, too.