DEA Inadvertently Speeding Prohibition End

(http://www.isria.com/pages/17_July_2009_70.php) The US anti-drug agency supported the Mexican government’s position of rejecting any dialogue or pact with organized crime.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) approved the Mexican government’s position of not negotiating with drug traffickers or criminal groups, whose only possible destination is prison.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón “Is right not to make agreements with criminals. Criminals must be put in prison, period,” declared DEA Head of Intelligence Operations Anthony Placido.

“From our point of view, President Calderón is a hero who is fighting head to head with criminals, said Placido, adding: “We are going to help.”

At the same time, Placido expressed the DEA’s concern over the violence carried out by the drug cartels who feel threatened by the operations undertaken by Mexico’s police and military forces.

The DEA officials described drug cartels as a threat to both Mexico and the United States, adding that the increase in violence reflects the advances of both countries in “interrupting the activities” of these organizations.

The DEA may inadvertently be speeding an end to the prohibition by encouraging the Mexican government to not negotiate with the cartels. Apart from legal, low-cost marijuana sales to adults, the only thing that could bring about an end to the cartel murders is a deal made with the Mexican government to turn a blind eye to cartel operations.

While the government refuses the possibility of this, the murders will continue and the pressure on non-smokers in the U.S. to demand an end to the murders in any way possible will continue to grow. The DEA’s support for the Mexican government’s position will serve to minimize the possibility of the government rescinding on this. The only element left now is for non-smokers in America to see that the prohibition is causing the cartel murders.

Reputable organizations need to be encouraged to conduct sound research into the connection between the prohibition and the cartel murders, with the purpose of generating studies proving a statistically significant correlation between the two. Findings like this from reputable sources will make front-page news across the country and become a powerful weapon in generating support amongst non-smokers for bringing an end to the prohibition.

Widespread knowledge of this connection among the general public will give non-smokers a compassionate reason to support an end to the ongoing suffering and brutal murders of so many people. It’ll also reveal to them just how the prohibition is putting their own families in danger, not only from errant SWAT raids but also from being the accidental target of home invasions and revenge killings by the cartels.

Three THOUSAND people alive right now will be tortured, murdered and beheaded by the cartels before Christmas as a direct result of the federal marijuana prohibition.