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What can the US do to help Mexico finally stop the cartels? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by HurlingDurling@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Politicians constantly talk about stopping the illegal immigrants that are coming from Mexico, but putting a wall has never and will never be a solution since the reason why so many displaced keep coming across the border is mostly to escape the crime, corruption, inequality, and violence of they have to live in their home countries. The worst part is that most of these terrible things is that happen in third world countries are rooted in constant subversion by developed countries, primarily the US. I feel like since we caused this (even if in part) we should help stop it now, even if we didn't publicly admit guilt to save face.

So, how do we do it? Do we straight up invade Mexico and go on a full out war against the cartels like we did against Osama Bin Laden?

If not, why not? And, is there anything that can be done?

I would like to keep things civil. Please, let's keep this respectful as I know this is a tough issue and there is anger on both sides of this issue.

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[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

The only thing that matters is that (in adults) it's very clearly demonstrated by abundant research to be perfectly harmless.

In and of itself, the lack of harm makes it impossible for you to be a redeemable human being if you want to tell a consenting adult that they can't have it.

That's ignoring all the evidence supporting benefits.

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Perfectly harmless is overstating the case. It is undoubtedly much less harmful than alcohol, but there are still some detrimental effects.

Of course, there are also significant, much more so, detrimental effects to soda and to sitting down. There's a level of risk for which society has solidly decided that the choice is up to the individual, and marijuana undoubtedly should be in that category, but we shouldn't pretend that there are literally zero negative effects.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

It's not. There's no evidence for any harm of any kind from THC or the other psychoactive ingredients in adults.

Smoking, specifically, yes, but there are many, many other ways to ingest it, and smoking is most common in large part because of the backwards ass laws.

It's not like alcohol, where the desired altered state is exchanged for fucking up your liver, kidneys, etc. It doesn't do any of that, even with extremely heavy use.

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