Can you really blame drug runners and dealers for the problem in society?

Question

The truth is, they are just ordinary people trying to make a living like the rest of us. They resort to violence in their business because we the "good" citizens have passed laws to make drugs illegal and open room for a monopoly for those who has the firepower to keep it a monopoly.

If drugs are were comonly sold like it was alcohol and cigaretes, we wouldn't have these organized cartels runing the show. Who cares for the people dumb enough to take these poisons at their own leisure! They take themselves out so that the smart ones will be left standing to breeder smarter generations. :)

Answer 1

Here's the thing... Have you ever been to a place where drugs are legal? Do you really want to get on a bus and have people openly shooting up in front of you? Leaving needles and paraphanallia around like ciggerett buts? People of all walks of life "experimentally" using drugs like alcohaul.

What if heroin or cocain were legal do you really think you would never ever try it? I am betting that more people then you realize would. Even if you didn't directly use yourself you are still not imune to the diseases that can be picked up from others that use (HIV and Hep.) So there goes your whole weed out the weak theory! These things are seriously addicting. Look at how many people just smoke tabacco. It really opens a completely different door.

You say drug dealers are just "people trying to earn a living." I wish it was that simple. In order to sell drugs on the street, at least where I am from, you have to be plugged. Then you have to work a spot. If a spot gets more business then an other, a rival gang or just another gang in general will try to "come up." In doing so, many lives have been lost.

I have seen it with my own eyes time and time again. Don't be foolish. Drug runners and dealers are just as "stupid" as the people who do the stuff. They give there lives to sell it, just as users give there life to use it. Not to mention those who sell contribute to the devastation of other people's lives.

Even if drugs were to be commonly sold, who do you think would profit from this??? I bet you wouldn't see a dime and your surroundings would be much worse off.

My guess is that you are a white suburban boy who probably sells pot or wants to? Wake up kid and open your eyes there is nothing cool about people who sell drugs. You might want to start reevaluating your goals because this is an almost guaranteed trip to prison. Good luck!

Answer 2

People will use drugs whether they are illegal or not. Prohibition didn't stop people from drinking alcohol and and modern prohibition hasn't stopped people from using drugs. The major difference between the two is profit margin. There were certainly territory wars, but crime to feed an alcohol addiction was very low. The reason is simple, everyone could make alcohol.

Levels of drug addiction have remained virtually the same since the Pure Food & Drugs act 1906 was passed. Most people avoid drugs because they are dangerous, not because of the law. The idea that people would start using drugs in droves is full of false logic. If it were true, we would have far more alcoholics than we do.

Referring to people like Pablo Escobar, Frank Lucas and all the others as ordinary people trying to make a living is wrong. These are people with no problem profiting from misery. It is the government that allows these individuals continue to do so.

Both drug dealers and policymakers are against drug legalization. Why in the world would a criminal and a legislator ever agree on something like this?

Federal drug policy is not about protecting children or preventing abuse. It is about controlling and penalizing the behavior of people of color and those of little financial means. Secondarily it is about immense profits. When Richard Grasso left the NYSE the first international trip he made was to Colombia. It certainly wasn't a pleasure trip.

Billions and billions are laundered annually through the stock market.

Retired Lt. Jack A. Cole, Exec. Dir. of Law Enforcement Against (LEAP) Prohibition, a former NJ State Trooper on the front lines after Nixon's declaration puts it all in proper prospective with this line from his essay "End Prohibition Now",

"Those kids in the parking lot, none of whom were 21 years old, could and did sell me any kind of illegal drugs you can name but they often came up to me and said, "Hey Jack, we're thirsty--will you go into the liquor store and buy us some beer? We can't buy beer." They could get all the illegal drugs they wanted but couldn't buy beer. How can that be?"

The answer is obvious.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

that makes sense , if they were legalized , people wiould make the choice to drug themselves , but less there would less dangers from drugs mobs n such