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mojaveman 01-08-2014 15:49

Legalizing pot makes Mexican Cartels even more dangerous.
 
The growing movement to legalize marajuana is radically altering the way Mexican drug cartels do business, forcing them to seek other revenue streams through increased illegal activity.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/legali...182600895.html

Dusty 01-08-2014 16:54

Sounds like they're being victimized.

Oldrotorhead 01-08-2014 17:57

Maybe they will start a price war with the "legal" dealers. I can see the stoners broken down on the interstates on their way to CO already and with the Cartels changing their business model that State may become very interesting.:munchin

Richard 01-08-2014 17:59

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Meanwhile in Colorado...

Richard

The Reaper 01-08-2014 19:02

Like I said, second and third order effects.

TR

echoes 01-08-2014 19:50

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Originally Posted by The Reaper (Post 536754)
Like I said, second and third order effects.

TR

TR Sir,

A quick question, as I saw on the News about a drug dealer who tortured alive an informant, and kept him alive while drilling holes in his head, just for the sheer fact that the drug dealer wanted him to suffer.

Where do we as a Nation with able bodied soldiers, put up the line, and go after these satans roaming the earth?:(:munchin

Holly

Streck-Fu 01-08-2014 20:52

Evil men will do evil things. I am of the belief that, like alcohol prohibition, eliminating MJ prohibition will be far better for our society.

monsterhunter 01-09-2014 03:35

I've been split on how this should be handled for some time. But as to why soldiers aren't involved on Unitied States soil, take a look at this site: http://www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm

Dusty 01-09-2014 05:04

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Originally Posted by monsterhunter (Post 536772)
I've been split on how this should be handled for some time. But as to why soldiers aren't involved on Unitied States soil, take a look at this site: http://www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm

Obama has set a precedent of selectively enforcing federal laws. What makes you think he wouldn't apply it to posse comitatus? Who's gonna stop him? Boner?

monsterhunter 01-09-2014 06:52

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Originally Posted by Dusty (Post 536778)
Obama has set a precedent of selectively enforcing federal laws. What makes you think he wouldn't apply it to posse comitatus? Who's gonna stop him? Boner?

I wouldn't put it past him at all. He doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about the Constitution. This is just another piece of paper to him.

miclo18d 01-09-2014 18:53

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Originally Posted by monsterhunter (Post 536772)
I've been split on how this should be handled for some time. But as to why soldiers aren't involved on Unitied States soil, take a look at this site: http://www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm

Actually I've been involved on JTF-6 missions.

Posse Comitatus is very strict in what soldiers can and can't do. We could not collect on US citizens. We could only collect info on confirmed people crossing the US border. We had to call in what we saw and allow law enforcement agencies make arrests.

But bottom line, US military can do policing... It's just not direct involvement.

Just FYI, we busted (observed and called the LEA) an 800 lb pot shipment during one of our missions in Nogalas, AZ in 1996.

Flagg 01-09-2014 21:32

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Originally Posted by Streck-Fu (Post 536759)
Evil men will do evil things. I am of the belief that, like alcohol prohibition, eliminating MJ prohibition will be far better for our society.

I would also agree with decriminalisation and legalization as long as the issue of MJ impairment measurement is addressed.

But I think many people will be shocked to learn that Cartels will simply develop new revenue streams as they are not drug cartels, they are criminal networks that just happen to derive some of their income from illegal drugs.

Dusty 01-10-2014 04:20

Reefer's the main reason the Country's so screwed-up.

How many Conservative hippies do you know?

Flower Children became university professors and indoctrinated mush-brained potsmokers into the marxist ideology of the left, then they raised their kids to be lazy, sissified idiots who want everything handed to them on a silver platter (without working for it) and are sickeningly tolerant of each and every blasphemous trait known to man-not the least of which is the election and re-election of a communist to the White House.

Streck-Fu 01-10-2014 07:03

We've fought the War on Drugs for 40 years and spent Trillions of dollars and are now militarizing the police in the name of this 'war'.... Yet, MJ, and all other drugs, is just as cheap and easy to get (if not easier) than 40 years ago. In most American towns, it is easier for high school kids to get weed than beer.....Yet, actual usage of drugs is not much higher than the 70s (yes usage spiked and dropped over the years).

As far as a government enterprise, huge budgetary expense, and waste of law enforcement time, is it worth continuing?

Decriminalize it. Treat it like alcohol. Anything would be better. It would still be illegal to operate a car and businesses could still hire and fire based on drug tests.

How many more years, how much more money, and how much more of an escalating enforcement policy are we willing to accept?


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