If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement.… - Charles Bowden
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement.…
- Charles Bowden
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, fa… - Charles Bowden
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, fa…
If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest lici… - Charles Bowden
If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest lici…
Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least. - Charles Bowden
Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.
Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this … - Charles Bowden
Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this …
What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten. - Charles Bowden
What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant … - Charles Bowden
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant …
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine.… - Charles Bowden
I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine.…
There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what i… - Charles Bowden
There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what i…
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