"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed."
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
In a world with legal drugs, you’d still want to prosecute someone for giving money to cartels, but there would be much less incentive for people to do so in the first place.
And? That’s whataboutism, not a response.
> Drugs are....
That sounds like a vast oversimplification, to say the least. Also, again, I’m not defending drug laws.
"The person abusing the child is not on trial in this instance, this one person (who did not harm or victimize anyone) is."
More people have died in Mexico and Central America due to the drug war than have died in the war in Afghanistan.
If you buy drugs from a supply chain that involves the cartels, you are indirectly funding organized murder and crime.
Furthermore, the destruction caused by the individual use of meth cannot reasonably be attributed to anyone other than the person who willingly purchased, acquired, and ingested the substance with full consent.
It's not moral to ask citizens to pay taxes, but it's not immoral to pay taxes: you do it because it's the least harmful option available to you.
The IRS doesn't agree.
The US is already spending 13bln per day