Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera reported head of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, ranked 701st on Forbes' yearly report of the wealthiest men alive, and worth an estimated $1 billion, today officially thanked United States politicians for making sure that drugs remain illegal. According to one of his closest confidants, he said, "I couldn't have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama, none of them have the cajones to stand up to all the big money that wants to keep this stuff illegal. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say, Gracias amigos, I owe my whole empire to you."
According to sources in the Mexican government, President Calderon is begging American officials to, in the words of reggae great Peter Tosh, legalize it. "Oh yeah," said an official close to the Mexican president, "Felipe is going crazy. He's screaming at everybody who comes in, 'Why don't they make this sh*t legal already! You're killing me here!' Look, everyone knows, when you have Prohibition, you create gangsters. And the more you prohibit, the more gangsters you make. El Chapo is hero now to all those slumdogs who want to be millionaires. Kids in the street, when they play games, they all want to be El Chapo, the baddest man in the whole damn town."
Meanwhile, many speculate that rich and prominent Mexican families are in cahoots with American businessmen in the alcohol industry, wealthy industrialists who launder the unprecedented profits from the drug business with their legitimate enterprises, and lawmakers who get gigantic kickbacks and payoffs to make sure that these drugs remain illegal, so they can remain rich, fat and happy. According to sources on both sides of the border, tens of millions of dollars in payoffs and kickbacks are stashed in Swiss banks every year, blood money from the brutal business made possible by a corrupt system supported by laws that don't, and have never, worked.
Rather than putting El Chapo and his kind out of business by modernizing outdated laws and in the process making billions of dollars from taxing drugs (as is done with cigarettes and alcohol), United States government has spent hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars chasing its tail, and offered a $5 million reward for the capture of El Chapo. Many have said that the offer is unofficially: Dead or Alive.
Meanwhile, as an epidemic of murderous violence rages on the Mexican-US border, and the American government wastes boatloads of badly needed money on the illegal drug business which results from the Prohibition laws, El Chapo is laughing all the way to the bank. "Whoever came up with this whole War on Drugs," one of his lieutenants reports he said, "I would like to kiss him on the lips and shake his hand and buy him dinner with caviar and champagne. The War on Drugs is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and the day they decide to end that war, will be a sad one for me and all of my closest friends. And if you don't believe me, ask those guys whose heads showed up in the ice chests."
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As far as this blog goes, I would like to see some verification about the statement made by "El Chapo" before assuming this is true. It most likely is true though, seeing as Big Pharma would never let people grow their own medicine for free (are you crazy??). US politics has become pathetic and hopeless.
Big tobacco will start manufacturing marijuana cigarettes.
Kellogg's is gonna get more hatemail.
The Taliban will cease to exist as their opium will no longer be useful, since poppies can be grown locally.
North Korea will be even poorer and maybe finally even collapse, since nobody is buying their opium since it can be grown locally.
The Netherlands will report record tourism losses.
Half the people in jail will be released.
The drug lords will either loose power or will be killed by their own henchmen, as they cannot compete with big tobacco and thus cannot make any money.
All American dealers will be reduced to the common subway bum selling single cigarettes for $1 a piece.
Any and all drug related crime would be eliminated.
They'll just go back to selling hate, paranoia and guns. That's where the real money is anyway.
These politicians sound like my PARENTS.
"WHY is alcohol legal and weed isn't?"
"Just BEACAUSE."
I've said for twenty years, that the time will come when these alcohol swilling dogs will have to make the choice between PRISONS or SCHOOLS; between WEED or GUNS.
That TIME has finally come. Glad I lived to see it. More than of my brothers have rotted away in chains for NOTHING.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité!!!!!!!!!! FOREVER!!!
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When Nixon declared the War on Drugs, his own scientists had offered evidence that marijuana was a fairly benign substance and worthy of decriminalization. That science was disregarded then, as now, is all anyone really needs to know about the origins and philosophy of the War on Drugs. It is all anyone needs to know about why it has been an abysmal failure.
If marijuana were decriminalized--marijuana, alone--the so-called Mexican drug trade would be severely impacted. Millions of people who just want to "get high" would be able to do so without resorting to the harder substances which fuel this horrible violence in Mexico, as the market for things like ice, coke, bootleg pharmaceuticals, and heroin would decrease. The elimination of the gnarly criminal element from the marijuana trade would help to marginalize harder drug users and suppliers. While marijuana would become relatively safe to grow, purchase, and use, obtaining of harder drugs would require that otherwise non-criminal people would be forced to deal with an ugly criminal element. Fewer people would be inclined to cross that line.
I checked out your site:
http://www.davidhenrysterry.com/mexican-drug-lord-officially-thanks-american-lawmakers-for-keeping-drugs-illegal/
Must be nice.
Excuse me, Bro, I've got some grapes to eat.
Nuff Said.
Barack, DO SOMETHING instead of giggling like a teenager every time ganja is mentioned....
Second my friend, give the president a little courtesy and a few more days in office.
King George "The Woeful" spent most of his first three months in office reading comic` books and cutting brush in Crawford. Can you imaging a Texan who owns a ranch not being able to ride a horse? But I hear that , in his retirement, he's getting better on his skateboard.
Our Banksters also wanted this for the huge profits and sums of billions they've laundered and deposited as well AIG especially.....it's all one big game and a tool to terrorize otherwise law abiding people a war against an entire generation would would have otherwise created a much better America than we have today..
We are still living with Nixon's cultural hatred and vengeance..