Prohibition created the environment of brutality that led to this…

…young mother and father, and 7-month old baby shot to death in Mexico.  Contrary to the article, the country is not experiencing a “drugs crisis”, it’s experiencing the predictable violence that springs up in a Drug War.  Prohibition incentivizes the creation of powerful cartels who use violence to enforce their market share.  That’s why innocents are being slaughtered.  It’s a failure of public policy, and those with decision-making power over that policy and continue to support that violence-and-crime-inducing policy have blood on their hands.

 

Author: S. Smith