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  • Legalize drugs. Boom, problem solved.

  • It´s good that I live in Germany without such problems ...

  • Interesting series, thanks for wrapping this up.

  • Sad to see these pictures ...

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  • Thank you WashintonPost

  • This video is very informative.

  • We have to war with drug

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you for sharing.

  • This video is great.

  • Thank you for sharing.

  • Good video

  • Cuba is a narco-communist leftist regime protected by the CIA and american main stream media

  • Some joker had a sense of humor, to hire a Mariachi band for a funeral. Or is this the norm for Mexican funerals? It seems rather inappropriate and incongruent.

  • @cobrachoppergirl That's not a mariachi band. Is a... grup of dudes trying to play some "norteña" music. However, that's not a tradition in Mexico... at least, isn't a tradition here at the center of the country.

  • @cobrachoppergirl Its a custom in some rural burials in Mexico, but the music usually is more sad.

  • @cobrachoppergirl no its a royal way of a funeral

  • Cartels got tired of paying the Mexican government for protection so now it's cartels against cartels against Mexican troops and people are dying in massive numbers.

  • It is a war on Mexico conducted by the CIA.

    How come the US media avoid to talk about cocaine smugglers trafficking southamerican cocaine from communist Cuba to liberal-corrupt Florida?

    The drug trade is global. terrorism is only in Mexico.( CIA black operations )

    It is a War on Mexico! cowards those who are behind it!

  • USA instead of been fucking racist about mexicans and sending ur troope thousands of miles away, SEND UR FUCKING TROOPS into mexico and help the mexicans army. cause we are fighting a war caused by ur unstoppable hunger for drugs. you actually belive that get high or injected heroin its a topic of fun like ur movies shows. but bring thoses drugs to usa cost mexicans lifes and quiality of life. BRING THE FUCKING ARMY NOW or we should let u being rotten in more drugs til ur society falls

  • @ZaRcOmEn2

    US. Did offer Mexico some help

    but mexico

    Denied it

    And said that they dont want any american troops on mexican soil

    and yeahi feel bad for the inocent people

  • @KilledLuiiz nop they wanna send troops only if mexico acept the stablish of a usa army base camp, and of course the sovereignty of that land to usa. mexico didnt acept so if we dont give u land u dont send ur army. --__-- what kind of help is that.

  • @ZaRcOmEn2 our troops can clear all mexico in one week

  • @KilledLuiiz u mean like the 2 weeks they took to clear iraq?????

  • @ZaRcOmEn2

    iraq is hard thats a war

    eaven the british fought

    mexico is just fast skirmiches

  • @KilledLuiiz w/e iraq was simple now iraq its hard, vietnam was simple now vietnam its hard, afganistan was simple now afganistan is hard, now mexico who shares with u the largest border in the world with more than 18 millions of mexicans living in usa, with mexicans druglords controlling usa authorities(u cant say no to this one cause its a fact most of the drugs are distributed) and a angry mexican society cause the racist murders in usa ITS EASY, LMAO n1gg4 plz

  • @ZaRcOmEn2 war isnt simple war is hell

    and vietnam was shittt thats why we retreated wwll now that shut up!!

  • @KilledLuiiz wwll RUSSIA OWNS now stfu!!

  • @ZaRcOmEn2 yeah like russian xD

  • @KilledLuiiz NO NIGGA OVER 20 PEOPLE IN JUST TIJUANA DIE A DAY

    AND THIS WAR IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE THE CARELS HIDE AND THE GOVERMENT CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT RISKING THE LIFE OF INNOCENTS

    IRAQ IS A WASTE OF TIME NOTHING EVER HAPPENS THERE

    IN MEXICO NORMAL PEOPLE LIKE US HAVE TO TAKE THOSE HITMEN JOBS TO FEED FAMILIES SO IMAGINE THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD KILLING EACH

  • @KilledLuiiz

    dude, 19 saudis crash the WTC but we went to bomb afganistan, yeah, we blamed Osama, then we failed to find Sadam's WMDs and we killed 2 million innocent ppl. Then we went back to kabul and blame Obama but Osama, an old men with kidney disease connected to a dialysis machine is still on the run.

    So, now that the Bush's fucked up the country you want to blame Mexicans? When is the shit gonna stop? You are out of your mind dude, you are.

  • Why?

    why Mexico turn into Drug war?

    we are people of work and duty...

  • Mexico♥

  • hahahah The Zetas, hired assassins for the Gulf Cartel, feature 31 ex-soldiers once part of an elite division of the Mexican army the Special Air Mobile Force Group. At least one-third of this battalions deserters was trained at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga again another USA/CIA creation hope the zetas cross the border and run havoc thru out the southwest!!! hahahhahaha thank ur government for training these killers with ur tax money!!!! hahahhahah

  • that sucks

  • Bin Laden was working with the U.$. Government for a long time before he turned on the U.$. Government & went rogue and turned into public enemy #1.The point is the U.$. Government provided the training,the funding,etc. Maybe it's time to stop trying to control the World no matter who you gotta get in bed with. You clearly aren't thinking straight, you are a brain dead reactionary conformist, I feel sorry for you, hopefully one day you'll pull your head out of your ass and put your brain to use.

  • Was it corrupt to sell the war in Iraq in the 90's to the American people using Public Relations Firms??? Remember Nijirah al-Sabah,she cried her eyes out for the World and described how she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers looting incubators to take back to Baghdad,throwing Kuwaiti babies on"the cold floor to die." Nijirah al-Sabah was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington, it all turned out to be a scam, a media hoax.The Weapons Of Mass Destruction were another hoax, another scam.

  • Was it corruption that the FBI provided the bomb material to the 1st terrorists at the World Trade Center in 1993? Was it corrupt for the ATF & police to allow the Greensboro Massacre to happen in 1979?? You don't even know history so I'm through arguing with you...Do some research or go back to your fatal slumber, I'm done, I won this argument before we even started ...

  • Was there Corruption when the 9/11 Commission failed to even report Building 7?? Was it Corruption trading arms to the Contras for Cocaine then having Freeway Ricky sell crack to all the Gangs and residents of L.A.?? Was it corrupt throwing millions of people in jail and prison for drugs that the government and CIA imported into our country??? How about the CIA importing Heroin in Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia???

  • no hay problema juarez ... las cosas se ARREGLARAN en el futuro yo lo se... LO SE..... saludos desde colonia Satelite, Juarez Chihuahua .

  • If you think mexicans are dumb, why do you even look up the video?....Im not a racist but some white people are just racist dumb fqks.....

  • mexicans are proof that niggers fucked buffalo

  • lol wat :P

  • rednecks are proof that mommy and daddy are related

  • Americans lost the war on drugs.

    Why do Mexico have to fight a war on drugs, when most of the demand and consumption of illegal drugs from all over the world is in the USA?

  • mexicans are dumb

  • mexicans didnt vote for bush twice

  • @smurfedalottasmurf hahaha lol.

  • I hate how all these vids end up causing arguments like "america sucks" or "gringos are bad." I mean, come on guys.. Yes, there are shitty, closed-minded people in the US, but the majority are caring and view Mexico very positively. I'm from the south, am white, and have been to Mexico many many times and the beautiful people and land there. I wish posters would stop generalizing "all Americans" when they make comments.

  • The people who make generalizations or believe in stereotypes have a lack of education. USA citizens very often generalize and make statements about the entire Mexican population, and it caused by their lack of knowledge of our country. Unfortunately, we also have many people in Mexico that make comments about the "gringos" and generalize about all of the Americans, because we also need to work on our education. (CONT.)

  • well i understand . I live in juarez..my grandfather was american and he came to work here. so i live here, sometimes people in school say to me "gringo"

    just for my physical.

  • I am glad their are people like you who are aware of the excellent things our country has, but it is true that we have many issues, like many other countries also experience..

  • @mcanavatis

    We trained those LOS ZETAS Drug Cartel Soldiers at Fort Benning, Georgia then they trained a bunch of other people for the Drug Cartels in Mexico,now there is 1,000's of highly trained soldiers working for the drug cartels thanks to the training going on at Fort Benning at The School Of the America's.Another example of people in the Government doing what they do best create terror & crime then act like they are fighting crime & terror.The U$ Government funded Bin Laden too.

  • And a host of other terrorist as well. Pablo Escobar anyone?

  • @streetfightspdx sick of u dumbasses. blaming the U.S. government for being corrupt.

  • @bikepeddlar6

    You're a 21 year old mainstream media spoon fed idiot, your main hobby is watching sports...Your opinion isn't worth a piece of used toilet paper..

  • @streetfightspdx neither is urs dumbass. if u seriously think the US government is responsible for corruption then ur a total dumbass

  • @bikepeddlar6

    Do some research dumb ass...We trained those LOS ZETAS Drug Cartel Soldiers at Fort Benning, Georgia...It was even on GANGLAND and is mainstream news in lots of areas...[go do some research on The Zetas, try starting with Wikipedia, or use your search engine in your computer for something other than searching for pornography]...You are still in diapers....Go back to watching sports and sucking on your Momma's Milk Sacks...Stay out of politics until you educate yourself...

  • @streetfightspdx actually u need to do some research. they were mexican soldiers first. then they went rogue. look it up. we didn't know they were going to become murderes dumbass

  • @bikepeddlar6

    Is guarding the Opium in Afghanistan for Ahmed Karzai & the CIA Corruption? Is busting your own citizens and throwing them in prison for the drugs that you are selling to them corruption?? Is it corruption to make them work in forced labor camps[prison] corruption?? Is outsourcing your jobs to Foreign Countries and the Prison Industrial Complex in the middle of a recession corruption??? Was it corruption for the U.$.A. to fund & form Al Qaeda to fight the Russians in the 80's?

  • @streetfightspdx you're talking out your ass. you're probably a member of the american taliban. shut the fuck up and get out of this country. it's to good for u anyway's

  • @bikepeddlar6

    All governments are in bed with all kinds of scum from drug cartels to opium warlords in Afghanistan/Laos, to Terrorists, Contras, Death Squads, etc...They have to be to maintain control...Controlling the World isn't easy or done by nice people..In the 80's the U.$. Government considered the Mujahideen & Bin Laden as Freedom Fighters when they were fighting the Russians then they are terrorists when they outlive their usefulness or go rogue or on their own agendas like the Zetas..

  • @bikepeddlar6

    Desert Storm was a scam started by a PR firm in Washington DC and a Media Hoax...Vietnam was a scam too, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that started the Vietnam War never even happened, it was a false flag operation, do the research, the truth is out there everywhere, you just gotta dig through the mountains of lies and do some research

  • @streetfightspdx everyone is entitled to their own opinion

  • @FOUB4R

    I don't deal in opinions, I deal in facts, I'm not concerned with opinions just solid evidence and factual information...

  • @streetfightspdx Nice....you killed it! Not even a debate! Some of these knuckle-heads aren't worth responding to.....and sometimes you just gotta tell 'em what's up!

  • @aks25aks

    Yeah there is a lot of brain washed people in the world, luckily I was raised by hippies and anti-authoritarian non conformists, so I got a head start on thinking...Half the time I don't respond to people, especially if they seem totally retarded & hopefless...But I like spreading the info, so hopefully people will do some research and figure out how the world really works...

  • Whole thing is a farce. Mexican government legalizes hard drugs and makes a few arrest of small fry cartels in a dog and pony show. US border is wide open and millions of Americans rot in prison for minor drug crimes. While 18 wheelers full of drugs roll right across the border and the DEA and CIA look the other way.

  • @Silvertrine Legalizes hard drugs are you fucking out of your mind???

    Man, im with the feds and i have seen firefights as the ones you see in iraq and Afghanistan, LAW's heavy machineguns and grenade launchers, so dont say shit!

  • Friend check the facts small quantities of hard drugs are legal in Mexico. Therefore whats to stop hordes of Mexican peasants being legal drug mules for the cartels under this law?

  • Avalon400 please just get out the closet and go join a parade or something.

  • U can't beat us Gringos. We simply R the GREATEST! This war against the Drug-Cesspool south of our border is just geting started! Death to these Canabals!

  • If drugs were legal that would be unfair to coke users. weed people can grow their own but if they stopped the drug war who would run the cocaine?

  • drug cartels support the "war on drugs" and the drug laws because without them the would no longer exist!

  • wat the fck is this shit? why is that song in the back ground, its a grave yard not a party, wow only these american find the most foolish videos to put on to tlk about us

  • having music at the burial is typical! ur obviously not from mexico! damn guero! from where my parents are from we have mariachi music play some of the favorite songs of the deseased.... in this case its nortenas....

  • i obviously am, why would mexicans, catholics play music in a funeral, maybe cristian song but not mariachi, if anything they dont play music to respect the "dejunto"

  • Are you kidding me? ALMOST every mexican family plays music to their gone family members. Specially in the north of mexico

  • Really? I live in Juarez and have been to a funeral recently...no music..just cold rain...

    U sure almost every family? I've never even heard about people singing at funerals, it's disrespectful...

  • @Ileranerak CHINGA TU PUTA VERGA MADRE PINCHE MIERDA ESCARADA BASTARDA CULERA, WE ALWAYS CELEBRATE A LOVED ONES PASSING. Why? because the way we see it, when a loved one passes, they go on to somthing greater. So said in the bible, or els we just rot in a box six feet under and get forgotten in a few years unless your famous, but at every funeral in mexico I have been to, they always sing and have a gathering you fuck face faggot.

  • I don't support the US giving money to Mexico, but its government has helped criminal or guerilla organizations to fuck up governments, like Al Qaeda, so what's the difference?

  • Bitch, shut the fuck up, maybe you fucking americans should stop buying shit from the mexican drug cartels and THEN your government can stop giving the mexican government money for this types of things

  • Yepp ,fueled by money from the Great American DrugWAR ! Drugs are not the problem , Its prohibition thats the catalist for this screwed up problem !

  • 3 years ago we warned of this Drug War! Best-selling novel FULTON COUNTY 404 I ran BMF...Boobie Boys....SUR 13...from the streets of Atlanta. 5 years, 600 Convictions Your Crew is Next! And Obama Can't Save You. Time 2 Grow Up my Black Brothers & Sisters Their Dope is Not Welcome Here. I AM MIKE DRAKE. myspace fultoncounty404
  • i love mexican weed

  • too bad not everyone thinks like you and there not welcome here but too bad there here already and they run the streets

  • what of the white folk?

  • golpe de estado !!!!!!!!!!!! para que aprenda ese gobierno corrupto !

  • hey my raza lets make a revolution !!! fuck calderon

  • a pero si eres bruto, borrego e ignorante....

  • come to Jesus all in these Endtimes before its too late

  • way to go american government on being thirty years behind on this one!!!

  • What if drugs became LEGAL?

  • So from what Im gathering, the prohibitionists here are aguing the following:

    ***

    The prohibition of MY DRUGS(alcohol and tobacco) is over.

    And the current "war on[ certain] drugs[' users]" only violates the constitutional rights of non-white Americans, and Mexicans...

    ...so the treason is magically ok!

    ***

    Wake up, end the treason, stop the waste of dozens of billions of dollars, and quit destroying the lives of US citizens.

  • things in juarez are getting out of hand my cousin was kidnapped and murdered in juarez just because they thought he was rich and he owned a carlot i wish they would find a way to make things better

  • Oh no. Piles of dead Mexicans. Let me dig into my bag of care and see if I have any left. Uh-oh, appears I'm fresh out.

  • The war on drugs is worthless, illogical and stupid.

  • So is doing nothing.

  • Another Bush legacy.

  • HAHA, some of you people have obviously NOT studied marijuana, the "War on Drugs", or any other relevant information regarding this topic. End the corrupt "War on Drugs".

  • No lets really go at it as it is a war. The non-pot smokers vs the brain dead pot heads. A total death match.

    No quarter

    No white flags.

  • You McCain voters are so delirious. You must be pissed about Barack Hussein Obama II being your president. I guess your God in your evangelical church was simply ignoring your heathen prayers. Dont worry, you'll get another chance in four years!

    Palin/Jindal 2012~!!!!!

  • What? Who we voted for has nothinmg to do with it, guess that's all you have.

    but you are right, we need to stop put drug users and pot smokers in jail. Just take them out back of tye counrt house and hang them. Maybe it's what all these FEMA camps are all about.

  • Of course those 6,000 thousand drug lords deserve to die, they have killed probably more than that but of inocent people.

  • Legalize Drugs!!!! no way.. just because you don't want to hide from the law to smoke your shit want them to legalize it, you are so stupid and ignorant it is not safe. 90% of the teenagers that are marijuana smokers have high stages of depresion and 30% of them end up killing them self or killing someone else. and most of the marijuana smokers from the 60s and 70s suffer of nervous twitches.

  • I don't see that we have much choice, I remember the just say no campaigns in the 80s nothing's changed, we are in a war of attrition and we are running out of materiel. We can't keep this up forever it's grinding both nations down to nothing.

  • Legalize Marijuana and then it wouldnt be such a profitable commodity. Prohibition on a substance like weed but not on nicotine is completely absured. Cigarettes kill more ppl in one month than weed does in a year, and both have equal amount of users!!!!

    Capitalism will be the downfall of this country

  • Legalize Drugs!!!! no way.. just because you don't want to hide from the law to smoke your shit want them to legalize it, you are so stupid and ignorant it is not safe. 90% of the teenagers that are marijuana smokers have high stages of depresion and 30% of them end up killing them self or killing someone else. and most of the marijuana smokers from the 60s and 70s suffer of nervous twitches.

  • So nows the time we just start killing off all the pot heads. One by one or just round them all up and do it all at one time. Then it will all go away. Get rid of the users and there will be no demand for it.

    I'ld rather see millions die before making that shit legal.

  • Seriously man, come on. Do you know how much tax money goes to the "War on Drugs". It's just another war and it's obviously not working. Murdering people who use a weed is not the solution. It was perfectly legal during our countries inception and early years. Tobacco, alcohol, and pills are far more damaging to the american populous than some smelly weed. Instead of losing tax money, we could gain it, and address the demand side. I'm just tired of a broken, expensive, illogical record spinning.

  • "War on Drugs"/?? there has never really been a war on drugs. Wars are fought with rockets,missles and bombs, and a few bullets to the head.

    You don't even know how much money is made fight drugs. $100's of millions a year easy. everytime big bust go down they may rake in millions on 1 bust. Then the money from sell of te cars,trucks,planes and boats. plues any of their personal items that are taken and sold. That's not even counting fne fees and bonds.

  • Nicotine Kills hundreds of thousands each year you dumbfuck, why dont we ban smoking!!!! How many ppl die from driving under the influence, eh?? God Dam hypocrites, i lose my temper with ppl who dont listen.

  • Look around you dumbfuck, smokingis being banned from just about every city across the US. The state as well as Obama is to tax people into quitting.

  • Do we tax ppl for smoking weed or do we throw them in prison for three years, you tell me. Alcohol was prohibited in the 1920's and look at what it resulted in, a crime rate that was beyond staggering. Now we've made hemp and Marijuana illegal in this country and look at all the violence its caused. These are not like cocaine or heroine, they're only as harmful as tobacco and liqour, which is still SOLD EVERYWHERE!! Make Marijuana as legal as tobacco and the cartels will slowly fade.

  • What an intelligent person....

    Weed needs to be legalized.

  • what about cocaine and meth and heroin and all other drugs?

  • When you consider that the US namely the CIA started the whole cocaine boom n america and the government profited massively from it. some experts say that the money the US has made from drugs has kept their head above water economy wise.

  • I agree on the weed part. But free market capitalism is what this country is founded on. If it brings us to our knees, then we need to stand up. The market always corrects itself. The problem is when corporate america runs the policies of government. Fascism will be the downfall of this country.

  • End the war on drugs in the U.S

    Then the drug war in Mexico will end.

  • If you think that those americans that are purchasing drugs from mexico aren't adding to the problem you are in seriour DENIAL. I'm not saying these people are bad. That is for you to decide. I have friends who smoke weed and I've told them how they add to the problem and all I see is a denial in their blood shot eyes.

  • I've had the same experience. My weed smoking friends say they get mostly locally grown weed, but I doubt that they can know that. Weed (which I don't care for) should be legalized and taxed, and an educational videos like this one should be shown to kids--starting early-- in school so that they grow up knowing that if they do coke, etc. , they're doing harm to many innocents. What do you think?

  • The War on Drugs in a Ponzi Tax Scheme for U.S. Taxpayers. The War on Drugs is a $77 Billion per year Tax on Americans. The War on Drugs is designed the same way the War on Terror is designed, and both are designed to be never ending and create endless Spending which in turn creates endless Borrowing from the US Federal Reserve Bank (privately owned). War on anything just creates more Profit of the Federal Reserve. The Fed create the Economic Depression were in also. Thank you Alan Greenspan.

  • i live in san diego and nobody goes to TJ anymore...except the horny predators..

  • O yeah drugs you gotta have drugs

  • oh my god this is crazy

  • wow, more people have died in this drug war, than american casualties in the iraq war.

  • Who told you that???

    I doubt it... I don´t have facts, but I know that there has been 700,000 deaths in Iraq, or probably more.....

    That is a lot of people.

  • 700.000 Mexicans or 700,000 Americans?

  • 700,000? r u crazy! I am talking about U.S military deaths. I really dont feel like arguing, just look it up please! Please research before posting comments.

  • What? I hope you mean total lives, rather than just purely american ones, cuz 700,000 american lives lost is absolutely preposterous.

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  • spark a problem with the mafia and the triads to go against the mexican drug lords and well see them no more

  • ye then sum 1 else will just fill the void youll go from one problem to another

  • Do you know why the world hates us here in America? Because our government does all kinds of shit all over the world that really hurts a lot of people. Mexico is just another example.

    And of course its a tragedy that the American people don't know shit, like you just displayed.

  • and america being the world top drug buying country has nothing to do with it right ?

  • THE PEOPLE ARE STARRVING

    ITS USUALLY EITHER SELL OR DIE!

    you are sitting your fatass at home watching this youtube video and have NO IDEA whats really going on.

    MAYBE IF YOU STOPPED BUYING WE WOULD STOP SELLING DUMBASS

    NO ONE EVER STOPS SELLING WHEN THERE ARE BUYERS

    NO FUCKING ONE.

  • It's Sell or Die? I guess if we stop buying that means they die - so we'll have to keep buying

  • don't be stupid!

  • It's caused by retarded American terrorists buying drugs.

    The only solution is to kill American terrorists. The Mexicans should invade the USA and kill all the fat retarded terrorists.

  • Or we could bomb Mexico and make it a new parking lot

  • wow its ignorant people like you...wait im pretty sure youve heard this a thousand times before.

  • lol if mexico invaded the US they would be crushed like bugs, it wouldnt even be funny

  • American terrorists buying drugs? For the love of god, tell me you're kidding.

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  • Most guns come from the army. They don't release serial numbers of confiscated guns for just this reason. Our government sells them to theirs, and the corruption in turn gives them to the criminals. They would rather lie and use it as yet another excuse to rewrite the constitution.

  • America sends cash and guns south of the border. They send us violence and drugs in exchange.

  • End the market for drugs.

  • I agree.

  • thats impossible..

  • The drug issue could be substantially reduced by treating addicts instead of imprisoning them with other criminals. I don't mean for them to get off scot free, but they need to be segregated somehow and treated.

  • That'll never happen.

  • Its like Alcohol during proabition, you can ban it but we still love to drink. Like that, you can ban drugs but we still love getting high and we will find a way.We have demand, they supply.

    Best solution to the violence is making it legal, heres why.

    1. Billions of dollars will be saved on "the war on drugs"

    2. With legal markets come regulations and NEW JOBS. the illegal drug market is in the billions, if it were legal that number would be multiplied

    There's more reason but no roomleft

  • The only REAL reason for opposing legalization of any kind is that it would be "immoral", which is an okay argument but that position never wins when we talk about money. Why? because everyone likes money and no one really gives a fuck about morals.

  • Well, I wouldn't say that. If no one gave a fuck about morals then there wouldn't be laws set up to prohibit such things. Also, the problem with your argument is that theres no line being drawn; where does it end? Should our society sink so low as to sell narcotics and whatnot just because it makes us money? As much demand as there is for drugs, for a government to sanction products that would inevitably do nothing but kill you is horrendous, just like the tobacco industry.

  • Well I don't have all the answers, and I don't know where a line should be, should it stop at weed or continue to meth? I'd don't know, but as far as weed goes I don't believe there should be this kind of legal regulation.

    And with morals. I know people are willing to die for what they believe, in but when asked to go against your own personal morals, the question is "for how much?". I'm not saying morals are crap, I'm just saying this usually happens.

  • "products that would inevitably do nothing but kill you is horrendous, just like the tobacco industry."

    And for this. I would say its not the governments place to tells us what we can or can't use to some degree. In this day and age everything eventually kills us, food can kill us if we eat to much, tobacco if we smoke to much, alcohol if we drink to much, etc etc.

    Everything in excess is a bad thing (in my opinion) but a little bit of one thing ain't bad, you know?

  • No, thats different. Narcotics are addictive in a far more different way than, say, chocolate or Bud Light. An overdose of cocaine or heroin will kill you, but even if you never OD you'll still be a disheveled mess of a person barely able to function in life, which is almost guaranteed to be very short. Its far more serious and far more deadly. Morals take on a very serious subject once the government tells us they're gonna sell us poison because we want it. Its also the gov.'s job to protect us

  • The junkie circumstance, which everyone thinks of when they think of drugs, is the only bad thing about those drugs. So I agree with you that it would be very hard to regulate.

  • But I do see what you're saying. If theres some way to control the amount and need so the stuff we buy doesn't destroy us, well then by all means go ahead. I just don't think its possible. I have a bias, but my personal belief is that people are by nature self-destructive. But maybe theres some way around the demand for drugs that we just haven't thought of, because what we're doing now as a country is sure as fuck not working.

  • I'm not saying the Gov should sell drugs, oh god no the Gov can't do shit with a business. No I'm saying the Gov should lay off, pass laws that would regulate certain things (like an age limit, etc, etc.)

    Also I'm only talking about weed. Although I don't find the drug appealing, it seems to be the only one without any characteristics of the "hard drugs", You're not going to be in a bathroom with a stranger talking for 3 hours about random things on weed, or sucking D**k for it, you know.

  • Well, if you just meant weed this whole time, then I absolutely agree. If they can legalize alcohol and tobacco, then there really is no reason why weed should be demonized so much. Amsterdam, from my knowledge, does just fine.

  • Ya, Holland is a good example. There was a pole in Times Magazine where students who smoked weed performed as well as students who didn't. unfortunately I can't show you the reference to this (I forgot the issue). Although someone like me would love to see other drugs legalized, I don't understand why weed is not.

    (BTW this is the 1st youtube video ive really posted on, glad to talk to someone who doesn't call me a nazi or a retard or a noob, you know. haha)

  • You do realize that no matter what drug youre talking about, the effects on the users are far less harmful than the war on drugs.

    The only drugs which are more harmful than the war on drugs are really Alcohol and PC, and even then, the prohibition still isnt the best option...

  • Well I'd say the Gov shouldn't ban any drug and just let us choose for ourselves.

  • Holland aswell has a lot lower percentage of weed smokers compared to other countries where it's illegal.

  • An holland fiend used to say that holland people doesnt smoke, only turist!

  • In Switzerland heroin is legal. not to buy on the street but to go to special clinics where the addicts are given clean needles and supervised doses. this keeps the drugs and paraphernalia off the streets and reduces crime as they are given this for free I believe. they have no higher amount of addicts compared to other countries where it's illegal

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