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

Americans spend $9 billion a year on Mexican pot

According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Americans spend about $9 billion a year on Mexican marijuana. This $9 billion dollars make up 62 percent of the Mexican cartels total profits. 

These two simple statistics illustrate a simple yet profound point, if weed was legal tomorrow 62 percent of the Mexican cartels' profits would be gone within a year tops.  A business that looses 62 percent of it's profitability would be crippled at best as a result. 

It's a pretty simple choice really. We can either ignite an all out war on the southern border with Mexican cartels wile meanwhile they continue to make that same $9 billion dollars a year that they can use to fight the US and Mexican armies. Or we can legalize cannabis in this country cut off 62 percent of the cartels' profits and resources to fight with.  

What option leads to fewer deaths and less money wasted?  You be the judge.

-VeganToker

Testing, Testing!

Welcome to overgrowthemafia.org! Since this is the very first blog post let me tell you whats going on here...

We have a serious problem on the southern border, Mexican drug cartels are importing very large quantities of drugs across the border into the United States. In return, guns and money travel back to Mexico were they are put to work for ruthless drug gangs that are proving a serious risk to the stability of Mexico as a nation. The United States government has mobilised troops, and extra border agents to the region hoping this will lessen the violence and keep any problems out of our side of the border.  

What I fear we will find however is the Mexican mafia has enough money, guns and drugs to keep up this fight for longer than some suspect. We however, with two wars already commanding our resources cannot afford a third. High ranking Obama administration officials are on record stating that we are partially to blame.  Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the US bears some blame for the crisis because of its "insatiable" appetite for illegal drugs and its role as a supplier of weapons that are smuggled into Mexico to arm the cartels'. 

So demand is here to stay. At least according to the Secretary of State. The Drug war in America has tried to teach this nation many things but one of the most obvious is no matter how many drug dealers you arrest, as long as there is demand for the product, there will always be more drug dealers to arrest. 

This is a pretty complicated problem, it's a really good thing the solution is so simple.... LEGALIZE MARIJUANA. Of course we aren't quite there yet and that brings us to the whole reason this blog was born and the message I would like to leave you with today; If we can't end demand (and I sure as hell don't want to anyways)  then what we can do is change who controls the supply. There is no reason that otherwise law abiding citizens of this country could not grow their own marijuana in order to supply themselves and other responsible adults and in doing so cripple the Mexican mafias' profits. In fact that is exactly what I'm here to ask you and help you to do. Our brothers and sisters on the southern border are being killed because of this drug war. lets start working logically to end it and maybe the politicians will catch up.

-VeganToker