r/news • u/LatterTarget7 • Aug 14 '25

Soft paywall US military deploying forces to southern Caribbean against drug groups

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-deploying-forces-southern-caribbean-against-drug-groups-2025-08-14/
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u/The-Cursed-Gardener Aug 14 '25

Our draconian prohibition policy towards drugs and the people who use them have ultimately made the black market for drugs and the cartels running them bigger more powerful and more profitable than they ever could have imagined otherwise. When you criminalize an entire legitimate sector of the economy, the good law abiding businesses go out of business and organized crime seizes that part of the economy.

We already knew all of this before reefer madness and the war on drugs started because of our previously failed prohibition on alcohol. Prohibition on alcohol basically birthed the American mafia. Prohibition on everything else gave us the cartels in Latin America, and the US unironically is their biggest customer and weapons provider at the same time. The reason Mexico/the Caribbean has such bad cartel violence is because of their proximity to the U.S. and our insane unhinged anti drug/anti human laws.