Reason First
Legalize Drugs to get Rid of Cartels and Gangs
In Mexico, the cartels are running the politicians. Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador has committed to a “non-confrontation policy.” The money generated from the various fractured gangs, which number in the mid hundreds, comes from attacking cartels that sell drugs like fentanyl.
How does one defund such gangs? Legalize all drugs. The only way to stop these brutes from murdering, robbing, and making mayhem, is to force them to face the competition of the free market.
Gangs go after the cartels because it’s the only way they can compete with them for a share of the market for these products. The violence they perpetrate endangers the lives of all Mexicans, in all thirty-two states, and they need protection. While organizations like the Mexican Marines have swooped in to combat gangs, they’re just the tip of the spear. Legislation is the only way to bring about change.
Splinter groups are a clear result of statist principles instituted by politicians. Emotions prevent political figures from distinguishing whether the hundreds of gangs can be broken up and eliminated. The drug trade should be handed over to legitimate corporations. Will there be beheadings and other gruesome deaths after that?
The overwhelmed Mexican authorities should engage in not just targeting the multiple gangs, they should protect private property. Though strained, these personnel should be able to halt all gang activity by advocating for the leaders to display a more measured way of stopping the initiation of physical force.
Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) would not even exist if they did not have the incentive of killing and robbing cartel members. While gangs primarily “bang” guns cartels “slang” drugs. The idea is for gangs to deprive the cartels of their territories and “profits.” If the gangs didn’t have anyone to aim at, then their meager monetary returns would suffer even more.
Using the courts, they can decide whether to dissolve gangs and sell off all of their property. The cartels would be disbanded as well. Without the money and drug paraphernalia of the cartels, the members of these groups will have to look for legal, gainful employment.
The sale of drugs on a free market would be a boon for everyone involved. Everyone eighteen years or older could take part in producing, distributing, and selling drugs once seen as contraband.
What has to happen is for the United States to be the guiding light, and be the first to be a fully laissez-faire capitalist nation and let other nations like Mexico see the example.
If there is to be a world without gangs, then it would be imperative for the freest and the most noble country to show everyone else it’s possible to allow everyone but children to engage in drugs.
That would take the romance and the mystique of gangs and cartels out of the equation. The most impressionable youths would be able to grow up to be adults, and enter into companies to make money based on drugs. There should be no taxation on the manufacture of the product either. A sales tax may be implemented, but this would be far from what the gangs would tax which sometimes would be a limb, even a life.
While gangsters in the US and Mexico continue to post numbers of dead and injured, the whole idea of “the life” would cease with a few strokes of the pen. Once gangs and cartels are seen as passé and disgusting, there will be a chance for the world to see their utter uselessness.
So, for Mexico to be truly free, a place like the United States of America has to lead the way.
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