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Mexican drug violence. What to do?

fastar1 said:
As you say, no one knows how it can get resolved but it won't happen for a very long time. Which makes it a bit weird that you'd be so critical of different administrations who are all corrupt and complicit to some degree. Of course they don't have the solution either, but they will never admit that because people seem to believe that they can just vote in a fix for all the problems, so politicians have to pretend they're capable of fixing it.

But they're all human, flawed, and equally vulnerable to corruption. In fact there's a case to be made that accepting bribes and short circuiting justice is better than the alternative, which could implode the country.

But the problem is transnational. There's nothing Mexico can do on its own to fix it. It would require partners in the rest of the world and a lot of very hard work. But look around here at the love people have for cheap Mexican labour and cheap resorts. Do you think there's any other nation that's willing to forgo that to eradicate a problem that doesn't hurt them much?

I blame the international community for much of Mexico's problems. Mainly the US.
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Well that's where most of the customers are but it's a global business. The scale of the problem is staggering, 4 out of 5 bills in circulation in the US test for traces of cocaine apparently. The profits from such a crudely refined plant product are obscene, no wonder it draws in so many criminals. All you need is the crop, a weed whacker, gasoline and quicklime and battery acid and some way to dry the powder. I'd be interested to know if there's any underground cartel funded research on hybrid coca plant varieties and insect resistant strains etc. The cartels have more cash than the legal research funding agencies and they certainly have a motive. It can't be too long before drug agencies consider developing plant viruses or similar to eradicate coca crops (if they havent tried doing so already).
 
jc100 said:
Well that's where most of the customers are but it's a global business. The scale of the problem is staggering, 4 out of 5 bills in circulation in the US test for traces of cocaine apparently. The profits from such a crudely refined plant product are obscene, no wonder it draws in so many criminals. All you need is the crop, a weed whacker, gasoline and quicklime and battery acid and some way to dry the powder. I'd be interested to know if there's any underground cartel funded research on hybrid coca plant varieties and insect resistant strains etc. The cartels have more cash than the legal research funding agencies and they certainly have a motive. It can't be too long before drug agencies consider developing plant viruses or similar to eradicate coca crops (if they havent tried doing so already).
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If you take 1 bill and it rubs of on 5 others then you have 6 bills with traces of cocaine.

They do have a lot of $$$ they even have submarines, lol.
Drug game is not going anywhere...banks want their money AND if you remove the crimes linked to drugs then guess what....HALF the Cops and Judges and legal system is probably gone. You think they want to be out of business or keep growing their business.
 
-D- said:
If you take 1 bill and it rubs of on 5 others then you have 6 bills with traces of cocaine.

They do have a lot of $$$ they even have submarines, lol.
Drug game is not going anywhere...banks want their money AND if you remove the crimes linked to drugs then guess what....HALF the Cops and Judges and legal system is probably gone. You think they want to be out of business or keep growing their business.
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What would governments do without sin taxes? Drugs, booze lotteries etc. Is Wynnetario far behind?
 
jc100 said:
It can't be too long before drug agencies consider developing plant viruses or similar to eradicate coca crops (if they havent tried doing so already).
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The "law of unintended consequences" alarm bell rings. High probability that no such thing can be done without affecting some other plant that the ecosystem really needs ... or that the plant itself serves some needed function in the ecosystem.
 
Brian P said:
The "law of unintended consequences" alarm bell rings. High probability that no such thing can be done without affecting some other plant that the ecosystem really needs ... or that the plant itself serves some needed function in the ecosystem.
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True enough, I think the tobacco mosaic virus affects other plants too.
 
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