US guns arm violent drug cartels

Select quotes from Washington AP

"Stopping the flow of money and weapons from the United States into Mexico is critical to dealing with the violent drug cartels creating havoc on the border, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday."

"The key issue right now is how can the United States help to shut down those guns and shut down that bulk cash that is providing the drug syndicates in Mexico with the wherewithal to corrupt, to bribe, to kill," Sarukhan said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

"Tightening border security through fencing and similar means has not had an impact on guns and drugs, Sarukhan said."

"We will be able to control our border if we can control illicit traffic in moving both directions, the drugs moving north, the weapons and the cash moving south," he said. "We will have to work together. And it behooves Mexico to ensure that this common border is secure, that we're doing things on both sides of the border to jointly ensure that the border is secure, that the well-being of our citizens on both sides of the border is being protected."



Is anyone ever going to acknowledge the 200 bazillion pound elephant in the room? No one is offering any real solutions to this problem. The best we've gotten from those in charge is the recycling of old ideas wile simultaneously telling us how these same ideas have failed in the past.

The one and only thing that will end this insane drug war that has already taken the life's of thousands of Mexican, and American citizens is to legalize marijuana. People in increasingly higher levels of public office have started calling for legalisation of marijuana because of drug war violence spilling into their border towns. It's up to us to help get their voices heard nationally. Marijuana Prohibition must end on a Federal level for it to be most effective in crippling the Mexican drug cartels.

-VeganToker