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Originally posted by Cogitator
In this country, over 90% of all violent crime is drug-related, whether directly or indirectly. The US has a serious drug problem. Even during the mid-70's when interdiction efforts slowed drug smuggling to a trickle for a couple years, people started to smoke rope, sniff glue, inject extract of banana peel, you name it. Whatever it is that drives Americans to lose themselves in drugs indirectly causes most of the violence here.
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I'm going to open another can of worms here but I would argue that the violence related to drugs is because they are illegal. I don't use drugs, I don't even drink alcohol, as many a trade sgow buddy has busted on me for. But I'll be the first to admit that forcing people to be criminals to use druges leads to further criminal activity. Look what happened during prohibition. I'm not going to say I'm dead sure on this viewpoint as I don't have research (like I do on the gun issue) to go by, but I feel fairly confident.