Argentina To "get Tough" On Drug Trafficking

[ajoknoblauch]

Weed has nothing to do with the narco issue. Too bulky and smelly and not a big price per weight. We are talking about coke, other powders and it's rancid offspring paco. Legalising weed won't have the slightest effect on controlling this.

I really cant see anyone legalising harder drugs, even if they did they would in all likelihood be illegal in neighbouring countries so smuggling and production for these markets will exist.

I cannot see a scenario where Argentina can control drug production , transit and consumption.

Also, Argentina would first have to have a government interested in doing so, with a professional police forces at both provincial and federal levels, and a corruption-free customs.

 

[ARbound]

The idea of a Drug War is as stupid as the Falklands War, but hey, you know the saying "You can't teach old Peronists new tricks unless it's a new method to lie, hoard US Dollars, enable nepotism, ...

 

[EdRooney]

The US War on Drugs has shown itself incapable of stopping drug use or trafficking. It has, however, shown itself quite useful as a demographic sledgehammer (there are more blacks in chains now then there ever were under slavery) and as a way for the nanny state to feed public funds to the industrial prison complex.

There are obvious reasons why some people would want both of these things in Argentina, but there is no way to say that "getting tough on narcos" would be beneficial to the country; it will only make Argentina look more like the charts shown above.

It is no surprise though to see the same scare headlines and braindead political rhetoric being bandied about every day on the tele.

 

[EricLovesBA]

The US War on Drugs has shown itself incapable of stopping drug use or trafficking. It has, however, shown itself quite useful as a demographic sledgehammer (there are more blacks in chains now then there ever were under slavery) and as a way for the nanny state to feed public funds to the industrial prison complex.

There are obvious reasons why some people would want both of these things in Argentina, but there is no way to say that "getting tough on narcos" would be beneficial to the country; it will only make Argentina look more like the charts shown above.

It is no surprise though to see the same scare headlines and braindead political rhetoric being bandied about every day on the tele.

Not to mention the entire violent black market that it creates - the fighting for big money and territory that is created by the scarcity and hazards that the policies create. Who could have possibly expected it to turn out any differently from alcohol prohibition? The US demand for illegal drugs spreads like a blood cancer straight from the inner cities and suburbs outward and south into latin America, leaving a trail of destruction and corruption wherever it touches. I don't see how Matasabia is too far off the mark on this one. The whole thing stinks like it's rotten to the core. Just another war to make the federal government look useful while a select few cash in under the table and over the table.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

What is it exactly are people suggesting the US govt do? Legalise coke, heroin, crack and pcp? Seriously?

 

[Arnebartelsman]

No, but the current tactic has been proven completely useless. Instead, they just focus on the demand side of the thing and reallocate spending on education and information

 

[scotttswan]

What is it exactly are people suggesting the US govt do? Legalise coke, heroin, crack and pcp? Seriously?

decriminalise drugs for users and treat the addiction.

 

[camberiu]

I am all for the decriminalization of all drugs. That being said......

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I am all for the decriminalization of all drugs. That being said......

Guns and their users, like automobiles and their drivers, should be licensed and regulated.

 

[Arnebartelsman]

With guns its the same, just like you have weed and hard-drugs, so you have guns and semi-automatic killing machines. You can regulate some part but at the same time recognize that a more extreme version of what you regalate goes too far