Re: Versus War on Drugs Debate

Posted by Carol de Cuastecomates on March 29, 2012, 11:14 am, in reply to "Re: Versus War on Drugs Debate "
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There is a myth that privatization of government is always more cost effective and better public policy. The war on drugs and the policy positions flowing from it, definitely expose the flaws in the argument. In the US, we now have a bunch of corporate lobbyists for the privatized prisons that are unlikely to ever let drugs be legalized. The prison corporations would lose their reason for being... Similarly, it will be fascinating to see what PRI (if elected) will do with the billion dollars of US drug money that is likely to come to them. Will they take the recently acquired territory away from the Zeta? How will they put the relatively new cartel crimes (not new in all places, but more wide spread with definite cartel interests) back in the box -- human trafficking, kidnapping, etc.? As an aside, was anyone else amused by the Pope's supposed reason for not going to Mexico City (elevation) and instead going to Guanajuato (similar elevation)but no gay-friendly mayor who is in a dispute with the Catholic Church?

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