• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    … cartels don’t want legalization. It would ruin their business model. In fact, one of the arguments for legalization is that it would destroy the cartel’s money source.

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      3 hours ago

      Cartels have diversified their income sources to the point that if their drug income fell to 0 overnight they would still survive. Human trafficking, farming, natural resource extraction, and extortion make up very large parts of modern cartels income.

      We should still legalize/decriminalize drugs to hurt the cartels, but it won’t ruin them like it would have say 20 years ago.

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      2 days ago

      Naw this president is clearly in talks with them since she wasnt shot. All she has to do is give them a simi legal avenue to operate where they still profit probably a bit less but without as much risk would costs them plenty.