From a place SELLING rehab services? Haha, good one! Weed doesnt make addicts, its a mental problem, not a weed problem...
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[h=2]Drug use. It’s not a victimless crime[/h]Many times people argue that using drugs is a victimless crime, that they are not hurting anyone but themselves. Depending on who you ask that couldn’t be more from the truth. From hurting your family and friends to people you may never meet by funding of organized criminal organizations from the purchase of illegal drugs the victims are staggering. Even a casual drug user that may “pop a molly” smoke marijuana or use cocaine may think they are just having a good time and they are not hurting anyone but the trail of violence that precedes them enjoying that substance is rather horrific.
Drug cartels main source of income come from the drug market. They have their hand in every major drug MDMA, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, prescription pills and other designer drugs are all at their disposal and they use the money they make from their drug campaigns to fund their other more violent endeavors. The united states is only 5% of the entire world population but counts for 30% of all the drug demands and the USA bordering Mexico leads to us being their largest market for drugs. Exact numbers are nearly impossible to make certain but estimates are that it’s an over 140 billion dollar a year industry this is why Americans need to realize that every time they purchase drugs they are rewarding the cartels. Think about this, one recreational user they may spend 100 – 200$ in a weekend on cocaine. That in turn buys the cartel numerous rounds of ammo. Two weeks of use can buy an Assault rifle and using on weekends for a month can be an entire month of pay to a cartel member soldier. Its a scary thought when you step back and realize that even if small your drug purchases are funding a war. Even if you are a Recreational user the money doesn’t discriminate it’s all going to fund cartels in their never ending violent campaign.
Mario Berlanga (2016) writes this “My friend Maria, mother of a 14-year-old son, temporarily fled her low-income neighborhood in the city of Monterrey with her family when she realized a cartel was forcing boys to join the business. Two nights after their return, armed men entered her house and killed her son in front of her in retaliation.”
The misconception that drug use is a crime that affects no one else but the user needs to be put to rest. From your family to the families on the front line of the never ending drug war south of our border, every time you purchase drugs it sets in line a motion of events that may not directly affect you but could impact hundreds of people in its wake
