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Pure statism.

By that logic, they should shoot alcohol and tobacco sellers, who cause many more deaths than illegal drugs.

The war on drugs has always struck me as pure and simple hypocrisy. People earn money however they can, and in my view, selling drugs is a completely legitimate business, and state intervention is an attack on private property.

Incidentally, states are the biggest traffickers. JD Vance should also shoot the entire US military and senior officers who were involved in the cultivation and trafficking of opium in Afghanistan, which was almost non-existent before their arrival thanks to the Taliban's ban.
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El Dorado 3mo ago

From a Brazilian point of view, this has the same feel as leftists telling eastern europeans that fighting communism is fascism.

Cartels aren’t small-time drug dealers selling a bit of weed to make a living, they are international criminal organisations that cripple entire nations. Along with cultural corruption, cartels are the biggest plague on Brazil. Brazilians cheer when police kill them, and I’m sure they would (theoretically) love for the US to do the job their own government is too coward or complicit to do.

They bribe and intimidate politicians, they own judges and lawyers, they take over entire areas and extort the population, they kill with no reason. Drugs is the least of it. As much as we can be skeptical of government, no one wants to live in a narco-state. Especially not those who value liberty and property rights.

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