The Mexican-drug war has caused many lives since it started. According to the Los Angeles Times, 9903 people have died since 2007 due to the war on drugs, just in Mexico. That is more than 5000 dead people per year that have died because drug traffickers must supply the demand of Americans, for the most part, in order for them to get huge amounts of money. The drug war in Mexico has become the worst problem in recent times, due to the drugs groups fighting each other and the government. Since President Calderon declared the war on drugs, he has deployed 45,000 troops and 5,000 police officers to 18 states where drug groups are fighting the authorities in order to gain access to the American market. Also not only is the United States the consumer of the drug groups’ drug, but it is also the supplier of their guns, I don’t mean the government obviously, I mean that since is easier to buy guns here, drug traffickers get guns from the black market and take them to Mexico. In this article you can see the results of the drug war on one city during one week. In Guerrero, Mexico, a city known for the drug conflict, the police found nine mutilated people in 18 plastic bags in the back of a pickup truck; three other people where found murdered in a resort with a note stating “boss of bosses”. In less than 18 hours 13 bodies were found in Guerrero. According to the police decapitated bodies with notes are accredited to La Familia, one of the biggest drug organizations in Mexico.
As you can see the drug war causes many deaths, in this post I talked about 13 deaths in 18 hours in one city, but there are many other places affected such as Colombia, Peru, Nigeria, India, Pakistan. Drugs are harmful to our health, but if they were legalized many lives would be saved due to the fact that drug wars would cease, or maybe it would be worst since maybe more people would become addicted to drugs since they would be more easily accessible.
Both, keeping drugs illegal and legalizing them, have tragic endings, but in my opinion there is a huge difference. Legalizing drugs would kill innocent people and would allow the makers of the drugs to live free and happy lives not caring about those that could potentially overdose on their product. Keeping drugs illegal usually ends in the deaths of those fighting for control of the cartels.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you because if a person overdoses on drugs, is their fault. If that's the case, all medicine should be illegal because you can go buy some cough medicine right now and take all the pills at the same time and overdose. Is it the manufacturer's fault or the person who didn't follow the warnings on the label and decided to chug the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteAnd in the war on drugs the affected people are not only those people who are part of the cartels, but also policemen and innocent people who live in places where the drugs are produced.