Treat the Cause, Not the Symptom: Welfare State Is Draw for Illegals
this constant claim that large numbers of people are sitting in prison because of drug possession.
This is a careful misstatement of the libertarian position, which is that the drug LAWS in toto are the problem. That means that everyone in jail for drug offenses should be tallied, not those in for mere possession.
Drug prohibition does for the Columbian cartels what the original Prohibition did for Al Capone: it took a powerful economic engine (the drug trade) and excluded it from the legal sphere to place it in the hands of criminals.
So, it should be no surprise that (a) criminal behaviour and drugs go together, and (b) the huge profits from the drug market help to finance the large-scale expansion of criminal activities elsewhere, up to and including the point of actual insurrection against governments (speaking of Mexico).
