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TetraCubane t1_j6yd0ur wrote

We need to change our foreign policy to something that doesn't make people want to leave the country they live in.

We are paying the price of the bullshit we were doing in the 70s-80s.

We should not care if countries in Central America or South America want to be communist. Don't get involved.

We should not care if countries in Central America or South America want to be narco-states. Don't get involved.

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Bandejita t1_j71pawy wrote

Nah the US is finally accepting some of the responsibility of all this. Latin American neighboring countries had to assume responsibility for these migrants with barely enough support from the UN. It's your turn now.

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TetraCubane t1_j71r9if wrote

Yep.

Afghan refugees also. We should also be accepting anyone who wants asylum from there. Our little adventurism there in the last 20 years was a complete failure.

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JustinMartry t1_j6yhv61 wrote

>We should not care if countries in Central America or South America want to be narco-states. Don't get involved.

Uh what? You're aware that the narcos like Escobar were making their millions by peddling their drugs into America ie Florida and that the violence that was wrought in Colombia was spilling over all the way to Miami right? Please read a history book once in awhile.

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TetraCubane t1_j6ymtxl wrote

Yeah, and if we left him the fuck alone and decriminalized cocaine it wouldn't have caused more violence.

The War on Drugs was and is a failure and should have never happened. Nixon and Reagan are to blame.

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JustinMartry t1_j6ymz5h wrote

.....There was already violence happening because violence is built into the drug trade by necessity and what a thing to say "Decriminalize cocaine"

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TetraCubane t1_j6yobls wrote

You realize the tactics they used would be to fund one gang or cartel against another then eventually that gang/cartel becomes the bad guy.

We have people here in the US who want to consume cocaine. If you don't want Pablo Escobar to become a billionaire by making it and smuggling it here, you let Merck and Johnson&Johnson make it and sell it at CVS.

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JustinMartry t1_j6ys1uq wrote

Grateful that you aren't in charge of any kind of policy making.

"Decriminalize cocaine"

Make that a bumper sticker.

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TetraCubane t1_j6z39gl wrote

If the cost of cocaine plummets because big pharma is making it, that makes it no longer profitable or viable to smuggle.

People are gonna use it either way, no need to lock up people for it.

You should not get locked up for possessing or using any drug. Check out what Portugal has done.

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BeMoreChill t1_j71btsg wrote

Big pharma makes heroin pills, how’d that go when doctors were handing them out like M&Ms?

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BeMoreChill t1_j71c5b8 wrote

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal

Also you should check out what Portugal has done. You’re not allowed to just do drugs willy nilly. They still seize tons of cocaine and you can still be fined

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