Stop Subsidizing Mexican Drug Gangs
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Stop Subsidizing Mexican Drug Gangs – By Bruce Mirken
The horrifying drug-war violence south of our border with Mexico continues to worsen, and we’re the ones subsidizing it.
The horrifying drug-war violence south of our border with Mexico continues to worsen: beheadings, killings that now number several thousand at least, honest officials in fear for their lives. It’s time to put an end to U.S. policies that subsidize these murderous drug gangs.
According to U.S. and Mexican officials, some 60 percent of the profits that fuel these thugs come from just one drug, marijuana. While much is smuggled over the border, an increasing amount is produced in the U.S. by foreign gangs operating on American soil — often in remote corners of national parks and wilderness areas.
Every year, we read more headlines about clandestine marijuana farms being uncovered on these precious, environmentally sensitive public lands. These rogue farms not only pose a threat to hikers and the environment, they cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars each year in eradication and clean-up efforts.
This appalling situation, which now carries a real risk of destabilizing Mexico, is not just happenstance. It is the direct result of U.S. policies.
via Stop Subsidizing Mexican Drug Gangs | DrugReporter | AlterNet.
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