Comments about ‘Mexico's drug war isn't working’

NOTHING will change the entire drug war mentality, until the money supply dries up and goes away. Legalize, and regulate drug sales, like alcohol, let a user go into paid rehab, and/or get this drugs legally with a prescription. Then, and only then, will the "war on drugs" be won. Seems not one single lesson was learned from the similar wars during prohibition.

It's not working because supply and demand does work, and as we prove in utah all the time someone is willing to cash in on government prohibition.

Justaskin obviously does not understand the "drug war" in Mexico. As a Mexico resident I can tell you that his proposed solution will accomplish nothing but have more people in the U.S. begin to use drugs.

Members of the drug cartels are common thugs, criminals. When you take away their drug money they will get it in other ways, with kidnappings and ransoms the most popular. They extort money from locals with threats to their families, and will go after Americans as well as Mexican nationals. In some small towns nearly everyone is involved, most unwillingly. That is what makes it so complicated. They also have fully operating branches of their organizations in many places in the U.S. They realize that the will to fight it in the U.S. does not exist.

All you drug users out there, do you see what you are financing?

Gary, your right. Its the will to fight, to stand up for ones convictions is the problem we have. Caving into drug cartels and dealers. Caving into terrorists demands. Caving into despot dictators. Osama bin Laden was right, we are a toothless tiger.

The war on drugs continues to be a failure. I will always be a failure because people want to use drugs and making them illegal just makes the drug lords rich. How much have we spent on this unwinable war? How many people are in jail? What has been the result? Are we any closer to winning?

THe war on drugs is JOke,
because not taking the seriusly the foghting of it,


though Iam NOT advocating war,

the only way you can ligitimately fight a war is to declare war,


so to fight war on drugs one must actually declare on those support and protec illegal drugs and drug lords

including all conutries that drugs coming form.

that is the reality,

that is only way to put an end to it.


otherwise you are just continuing fultility.