Truth Out: “When it comes to foreign policy, more of the same — if not much worse — is promised by a Trump or Clinton win. The leading candidates aren’t offering solutions to mitigate the human suffering and violence caused by the US-sponsored war on drugs in Mexico. While Trump has proposed to seal off the US-Mexico border all together, Clinton is promoting President Obama’s previous bilateral policies with Mexico, supporting the Merida Initiative and hyping up the war against heroin production in Mexico.
Also known as Plan Mexico, the Merida Initiative is a security package that has funded Mexican security forces directly responsible for human rights abuses like the globally recognized disappearance of students from the Normal Rural School Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa on September 26, 2014. This is a big concern for US activists and Mexicans directly affected by the violence still gripping the country.”
The War on Drugs has only one solution, but it’s a solution that requires a drastic reduction in the power of government: complete legalization of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc. The Drug War has been primarily responsible for the escalation of harder and harder drugs, due to the outlawing of safer highs. The Drug War also provides thousands of government jobs, jobs that would disappear were the Drug War to end. It also provides the excuse for liberty-destroying legislation, no-knock raids, militarized police, etc. The entire domestic Police State piggy-backs on the Drug War. End the Drug War, abolish the Police State.
