Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
The vast majority of it is grown here. It has been for over a decade now. But it is still far cheaper in Mexico, so people will continue to try to make a living that way.
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Abaddon
Deity
Legalise it.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
You are preaching to the choir. The main group who still want to prohibit pot in this country seem to be the ones who want to use it to control minorities, which was why it was made illegal in the first place.
I believe the main thing is that you can produce it on a larger scale more safely in Mexico and the border is porous enough that most will easily get through. Further, most of the cartels in Mexico also deal in other drugs (i.e. cocaine) along with many other illegal activities.
Abaddon
Deity
Who's idea was this anyway?
timtofly
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Why don't we just manufacture more natural drugs here and drop cargo planes full all over Mexico saturating the country and then Mexicans would not need the money they are risking their lives for to get across the border to maintain their own drug needs. If Mexicans are living rich off of Americans giving all their money away for drugs, I would say the Mexicans are the smarter ones. Sounds like the capitalistic view of supply and demand still works for some people. We need to revive the Old West and make raids into Mexico to get our money back.
Annexing would be to cost prohibited. Puppeting is more profitable.
Annexing would be to cost prohibited. Puppeting is more profitable.
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Then they are smarter than US. We sell food to buy drugs.
Bugfatty300
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So their profits mostly go the food budget? Those narcos must have quite a case of the munchies.
warpus
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So their profits mostly go the food budget? Those narcos must have quite a case of the munchies.
That's a lot of bacon
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
No, I am actually reasonable in how I define it.
So their profits mostly go the food budget? Those narcos must have quite a case of the munchies.
The people, the tiny handful of people, at the top get a fortune. Most of the people beneath them only get a job.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
I have the perfect solution. It's not like the Mexicans will be able to blow up power plants anyway.
I have the perfect solution. It's not like the Mexicans will be able to blow up power plants anyway.
Oh man, Tiberian Sun is a good game.
And said violent criminals would just find something else to be violent about while we would have to deal with the ramifications of horribly destructive drugs like methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin being legal.
Nice solution.
Flawless drug war logic again, Mobboss... People don't become criminals because it's tons of easy money, no no no.... Too logical. It is, in fact, a desire to do evil at all costs, and getting rich is just a side effect.
Apparently this is a genetic thing present in the Mexicans at an unusual rate then? A race of people hellbent on violence right on our own doorstep?
You should warn your superiors! 
Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
A job where even those low echelon types get a comparatively good amount of money, otherwise people wouldn't do it. They certainly aren't going to starve to death anytime soon, unless they get so busy buying houses, cars and guns that they forget to eat.
I mean a job where life expectancy is practically nothing, an ever present danger of being shot, tortured and mutilated and being required to dish the same out to others isn't going to get many applicants if the pay off is only sufficient to buy food and shelter. Yeah Mexico has a poverty issue but it ain't sub-Sahara Africa.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
You mean like being "reasonable" for the potential collateral damage that firing a Phalanx in the direction of Mexico might possibly cause? Being "reasonable" by ignoring all the other definitions of the word "violence" except for one?
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Collateral damage? In the middle of the desert?
Wow, you really jumped the shark on that one Form. Nice try.
Abaddon
Deity
I am pretty sure firing artillery across a border is beyond reasonable violence.
You could just arrest the people as they collect it...
You could just arrest the people as they collect it...
