Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "How Drug Gangs Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider" video.

  1. Yes. I'm not exactly sure what legalized, regulated recreational drug sales would look like, but the way we "fight" drugs, now, only empowers the most violent and ruthless drug cartels, gives the government an excuse to militarize law enforcement and surveil everyone with or without probable cause, and makes a HUGE amount of money available for the corruption of law enforcement. So, militarized and corrupt police plus drug gangs that would put Al Capone to shame. Today, they un-self-consciously say things like "Escobar was bigger than Al Capone," when it was guys like Al Capone who convinced the American public that the prohibition of alcohol only made problems associated with alcohol WORSE. The cure was worse than the disease! But somehow nobody makes that obvious connection. I think there's too much money in it for the state and the drug lords, who work for each OTHER, if you take a step back and look at how it all plays out.
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