I Would Never Have Thunk It
Friday 21 May 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + War on Drugs
Nicholas Casey via The Wall Street Journal:
Authorities battling drug traffickers in this violent border city [Ciudad Juarez] have begun to suspect that their efforts to impede the flow of drugs into the U.S. has fostered demand—and turf wars—on their own territory. (Emphasis mine)
They’ve begun to suspect that prohibition worsens the problem in every imaginable way? What a bunch of assholes. That said, at least the Mexicans have figured that out. Apparently after 40 years and over a trillion dollars later, we’re still working on it.
2010-05-21 » madlibertarianguy