AMLO Shows Some Spine

I’m right you’re wrong, no I’m right you’re wrong. It’s pretty clear that the U.S. government cares little for the little people, with their actions at prevention and education. Drugs certainly are used in a greater proportion the lower you go on the economic scale. We see the same thing with with the economy, big banks and Wall Street firms are bailed out with little consternation by the big whigs. Yet the individuals who got bailed out after Covid are blamed for inflating prices, so we raise interest rates to kick them out of their jobs and increase unemployment. Mexico does little to the cartels, because the politicians have been paid by them in the past. The manufacturing of drugs or possession of salable quantities is a crime in Mexico. The wealthy class in Mexico is entrenched, they don’t want new members, so those with ambition turn to crime. Stealing money from the tortillerias or the lime or avocado farmers, basically goes unchecked as well as the drug trade. The governments point fingers because they don’t want the blame, and you guys arguing here, fall for it. Buying and selling are the same transaction. For change to occur you also need joint efforts by the governments, but hey that costs money.

Most politicians here don't stand up to the cartels because they and their families will get killed if they do. Like I said, Mexico has a lot of poor people and folks can certainly use the money no matter the source, but even Mexico's president isn't doing what needs doing even though the Mexico's Supreme Court ruled that people have a right to ingest whatever they want as long as they don't negatively affect others or otherwise cause themselves to be a public burden, recognizing that it isn't the consumer's fault that the substances they want to use must currently be provided by a black market controlled by violent criminals. Their point was that the substances should be available legally to the consumer so that the black market isn't necessary, something the government still hasn't followed through on to comply with the court.

So while past government's played silly games known as the war on drugs, compromising the police and putting their lives more at risk than their pay was worth, the current federal government decided not to play and instead focused on trying to keep young people from becoming fodder for organized criminals. It will take decades for the police to get up to speed, but all things remaining equal, they will always remain outgunned and outspent by the cartels, and soon even by the smaller gangs that have sprouted to replace all the previously arrested criminals who almost seemed like gentlemen compared to today's gangbangers. Thus the urgency of legalizing popular substances.