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“Drug trafficking isn’t going to go away. Perhaps the only deep, long-term solution would be to legalize, and from that position control many aspects, not just violence , but health issues as well. Why not legalize drugs? It seems to me that there are many people for whom it is much better for drugs to remain illegal “ page 163

Wow crazy to start the book and then days after the Mexican government killed a big narco and the cartels are retaliating on innocent people.

I don’t think there is any drug war. All they do is respond to violence with violence. A real drug war would spend resources on education and health and combatting poverty. That would be a war against drugs because it would take away the narcos most fertile terrain youth

this is actually horrifying