Texas couple killed
There have been a couple of threads on this story from South Padre Island, but I ran across a story this morning that may give some folks pause. It seems that as the Cartels have increased their agr...
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ShinerBock wrote:We're not discussing the legality/illegality question, but rather the groups that rise in power when something people want is made illegal, for whatever reason. The opium trade begat The Opium Wars, Prohibition brought forth Organized Crime and American gangsters, marijuana and modern drugs have delivered the Cartels and drug dealers from other countries. People will get what they crave, making it illegal simply means they will become criminals to do it.fj12ryder wrote:
Well, we can see how well prohibition worked when it came to controlling liquor. Just do some checking and read about the rise to power of organized crime, Al Capone and the like, on the sales/dealing of illegal alcohol. Making a product illegal doesn't really work, never has, never will.
The amount of alcohol related deaths is more than twice the amount of people killed by guns (including suicide, murder, and accidental) every year. Don't get me wrong I love my beer (as my name implies), but the fact is alcohol kills way more people per capita being legal than it did when it was illegal.
