I know that they've already diversified into avocados. I met an interesting character a couple years ago who told me that he owned at least one avocado orchard and touched on the subject of Mexican cartel ran avocado farms.
The only way they can adapt to their products/services becoming legal is to intimidate/murder the legal producers. It happened in some places once the states started legalizing marijuana production.
Guess that just leaves human trafficking, but we really should be cracking down on that (which Trump did, but Biden put a stop to it).
Prohibition was never seriously enforced. There were only 2000 Probation Agents in the whole country, and Rhode Island police, for example, would lock them up if they tried to bust anybody. Corruption was the norm. Tge HBO production Boardwalk Empire was remarkably accurate.
Opium was legal to import, sell, or use until 1915, yet organized criminal groups smuggled it (to evade duty) and routinely killed each other over control of the market. The Tong wars in San Francisco were particularly violent.
Or they could be bombed via air by NG for practice, unless cartels acquired MANPADs from Ukraine or that most-prolific-weapons-dealer we traded for a mentally ill jogger ball player, he's probably out there making moves.
Ukraine? No way the ATF would let the Ukies edge them out of their own turf. Remember when the feds were caught supplying M134 Miniguns to the cartels…
US strike aircraft operate well above detection altitude of any ol’ cartel member wielding a manpad. Besides, it’s better to just use drones. More cost effective, and the MIC loves any excuse to spend more taxpayer $$$ to replace lost inventory.
Giving access to the scourge of mankind to your fellow countrymen because "liberty". Lulberts like you are heartless and fucking stupid. No different than a leftist
dude most drugs are legal. they are called prescription drugs and the pushers are physicians with distributors being Big Pharma. Many are addicted to these.
Sway? They straight up have them by the balls.
Touche
Thanks TLAs.
what is sway?
Influence.
Just another reason to say away from the healthcare industrial complex as it has apparently associated itself with the cartels.
You are so right dude. Get in an ambulance and end up being kidnapped and trafficked.
How much you want to bet this happens too
Cartel to the hospitals: “We have some people who are checking in for kidney transplants”
Hospital: “But, we don’t have the kidneys”
Cartel: “You have a hospital full of them. You know what to do”
Hospital: “We’ll make it happen”
Legalize and tax drugs, and the cartels are out of business.
Less crime, less poisonings, and lower taxes on the rest of us.
Or they'll just find a way to adapt, as smart businesses often do when their business model is no longer sustainable.
I know that they've already diversified into avocados. I met an interesting character a couple years ago who told me that he owned at least one avocado orchard and touched on the subject of Mexican cartel ran avocado farms.
My buddy owns restaurant and said the exact same thing.
When you buy avocados out of season (meaning from Mexico), you're supporting the cartel.
Drugs being illegal is a huge opportunity for organized crime.
If they can go legit and provide value in a Free Market, good. But I doubt they can compete with the world's best pharmaceutical companies, etc.
Murder being illegal is a huge opportunity for organized crime.
If we just decriminalize murder then we undercut the hitmen. It's the fReE mArKeT ya'll.
Libertarians are like stupid little children with big appetites, no morals, and a head full of naive imaginings. Grow up.
So basically just transferring the profit and influence from criminal cartels to the same big pharma that orchestrated the Covid Shot Scam?
The only way they can adapt to their products/services becoming legal is to intimidate/murder the legal producers. It happened in some places once the states started legalizing marijuana production.
Guess that just leaves human trafficking, but we really should be cracking down on that (which Trump did, but Biden put a stop to it).
It’s like nobody paid attention to Prohibition.
Prohibition was never seriously enforced. There were only 2000 Probation Agents in the whole country, and Rhode Island police, for example, would lock them up if they tried to bust anybody. Corruption was the norm. Tge HBO production Boardwalk Empire was remarkably accurate.
Opium was legal to import, sell, or use until 1915, yet organized criminal groups smuggled it (to evade duty) and routinely killed each other over control of the market. The Tong wars in San Francisco were particularly violent.
I wonder how accurate this series was about the Tong Wars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOruzUrPyTE
Exactly, it was fairly accurate. Basically made criminals rich and powerful.
Or they could be bombed via air by NG for practice, unless cartels acquired MANPADs from Ukraine or that most-prolific-weapons-dealer we traded for a mentally ill jogger ball player, he's probably out there making moves.
Ukraine? No way the ATF would let the Ukies edge them out of their own turf. Remember when the feds were caught supplying M134 Miniguns to the cartels…
I don’t remember this. When did it happen?
US strike aircraft operate well above detection altitude of any ol’ cartel member wielding a manpad. Besides, it’s better to just use drones. More cost effective, and the MIC loves any excuse to spend more taxpayer $$$ to replace lost inventory.
Why do you think our government wants to change things?
Drug cartels are like OPEC or the CCP: buyers of influences and producers off off-the-books cash.
KEK.
they make more in human tracking than drugs. we could legalize that
"Human tracking"? Trafficking?
No, we still need national borders. The more the better.
You also fuck up a lot more people for life.
Did ending the Alcohol prohibition (and all the crime that went with it) "fuck up a lot more people for life"?
You pretending alcohol and synthetic drugs are the same?
Yes alcohol does fuck some people up. But it's a naturally occurring compound.
You can already buy fentanyl and meth EVERYWHERE
Giving access to the scourge of mankind to your fellow countrymen because "liberty". Lulberts like you are heartless and fucking stupid. No different than a leftist
Except the bulk of their business is trafficking children.
There's the problem the govt will make sure after taxes it costs even more than the street price.
They'll still sell amd transport ppl
dude most drugs are legal. they are called prescription drugs and the pushers are physicians with distributors being Big Pharma. Many are addicted to these.
Arizona has entered the chat...
Look up the Panama Unit, from that area.
The cartels are directly controlled by the CIA.