Mex Drug Lord thank US

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Sun, 03-29-2009 - 8:33pm

Found this through a link in my local paper. Haven't really researched it yet.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-henry-sterry/mexican-drug-lord-officia_b_179596.html?view=screen



Mexican Drug Lord Officially Thanks American Lawmakers for Keeping Drugs Illegal

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera reported head of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, ranked 701st on Forbes' yearly report of the wealthiest men alive, and worth an estimated $1 billion, today officially thanked United States politicians for making sure that drugs remain illegal. According to one of his closest confidants, he said, "I couldn't have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama, none of them have the cajones to stand up to all the big money that wants to keep this stuff illegal. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say, Gracias amigos, I owe my whole empire to you."

According to sources in the Mexican government, President Calderon is begging American officials to, in the words of reggae great Peter Tosh, legalize it. "Oh yeah," said an official close to the Mexican president, "Felipe is going crazy. He's screaming at everybody who comes in, 'Why don't they make this sh*t legal already! You're killing me here!' Look, everyone knows, when you have Prohibition, you create gangsters. And the more you prohibit, the more gangsters you make. El Chapo is hero now to all those slumdogs who want to be millionaires. Kids in the street, when they play games, they all want to be El Chapo, the baddest man in the whole damn town."

Meanwhile, many speculate that rich and prominent Mexican families are in cahoots with American businessmen in the alcohol industry, wealthy industrialists who launder the unprecedented profits from the drug business with their legitimate enterprises, and lawmakers who get gigantic kickbacks and payoffs to make sure that these drugs remain illegal, so they can remain rich, fat and happy. According to sources on both sides of the border, tens of millions of dollars in payoffs and kickbacks are stashed in Swiss banks every year, blood money from the brutal business made possible by a corrupt system supported by laws that don't, and have never, worked.

Rather than putting El Chapo and his kind out of business by modernizing outdated laws and in the process making billions of dollars from taxing drugs (as is done with cigarettes and alcohol), United States government has spent hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars chasing its tail, and offered a $5 million reward for the capture of El Chapo. Many have said that the offer is unofficially: Dead or Alive.

Meanwhile, as an epidemic of murderous violence rages on the Mexican-US border, and the American government wastes boatloads of badly needed money on the illegal drug business which results from the Prohibition laws, El Chapo is laughing all the way to the bank. "Whoever came up with this whole War on Drugs," one of his lieutenants reports he said, "I would like to kiss him on the lips and shake his hand and buy him dinner with caviar and champagne. The War on Drugs is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and the day they decide to end that war, will be a sad one for me and all of my closest friends. And if you don't believe me, ask those guys whose heads showed up in the ice chests."




Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera reported head of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, ranked 701st on Forbes' yearly report of the wealthiest men alive, and worth an estimated $1 billion, today officially th...

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera reported head of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, ranked 701st on Forbes' yearly report of the wealthiest men alive, and worth an estimated $1 billion, today officially th...


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Registered: 02-19-2008
Sun, 03-29-2009 - 9:00pm

We have prescription opiates, all quite legal, there is still a problem with people who want illegal access.

Our crack problem is decimating many low income families. Should we make it legal? Would that really help people?

When opiates are legal, people abuse them, both legally and illegally. This is the nature of any addictive substance.

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Registered: 08-30-2002
Sun, 03-29-2009 - 11:43pm

**Our crack problem is decimating many low income families. Should we make it legal? Would that really help people?**


With legal distribition at least there would be an opportunity to connect the addict to rehab services if/when they wanted them, instead of them aquiring drugs through black market means and having to go on very long waiting lists for rehab svcs. The thing is, when a addict finally needs services, they need it the moment they need the service. They don't need it six months or two years later when a space opens up. They won't be sober enough or even in a place they can be located for treatment. Distribution, outreach and HIV/Aids prevention could all go hand in hand. It would take it out of the hands of gangstas and drug lords and put it in the hands of pharmacists, Drs. and social workers. Obviously keeping it illegal isn't quelling addictive use of substances. You said it yourself that people get addicted to their legal perscriptions (though that tends to be more acceptable and help is more available for it.) Addiction is a fact of life for a certain segment. Pretending you can make it illegal and that will stop it



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Registered: 02-19-2008
Mon, 03-30-2009 - 12:13am

The solution of make it available so you can stop it, seems self contradictory to me.

How many lives must be ruined, how many children must suffer, due to drug addiction by parents and adults?

Even Obama recently stated he was opposed to legalization of pot.

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Registered: 01-04-2009
Mon, 03-30-2009 - 1:00am

There is no good option with addictive substances.

 

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Registered: 08-30-2002
Mon, 03-30-2009 - 4:09am

***How many lives must be ruined, how many children must suffer, due to drug addiction by parents and adults?****


How many lives are ruined right now by these drugs that are already illegal? So is prohibition working very well? Is keeping addicts underground working to improve the problems of addiction? Is there any proof that



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Registered: 02-19-2008
Mon, 03-30-2009 - 7:59am

Legal addictive substances are more available than when illegal. This means more will suffer addiction if currently illicit drugs are made legal.

Worse, children will become addicts in unimaginable numbers. :(

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Registered: 03-03-2009
Mon, 03-30-2009 - 8:18am

I agree with you on this one.

A family member started using young--tender age of 14. She's now in her mid 40's but basically is dysfunctional. She can't hold a job for any period of time, doesn't stay clean either, and seems to have the cognitive and developmental levels of the age at which she first started using drugs.

Her mother said that she was the brightest of six during her childhood. And those other siblings are smart and successful adults.

I cannot see how legalizing mind-altering drugs would have done ANYTHING to prevent the wasted life which is hers.

Jabberwocka

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Registered: 02-05-2009
Mon, 03-30-2009 - 10:28am

I'm going to agree with you here.

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Registered: 05-23-2008
Mon, 03-30-2009 - 11:45am
Those who have a drug addiction and are trying to stay of
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Registered: 05-23-2008
Mon, 03-30-2009 - 11:49am
You cannot make the drug users get help if they don't want it.

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