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Two Mexican drug cartels came to dominate America’s fentanyl supply

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You cannot have dominant players in a supply chin if there is no demand

What are you suggesting exactly.

Not op. But that they lured addicted people of other substances and blackmailed them into creating their cartels like they all do. Building loyal "family members to ensure proper chains of command and heavily militarizing to deal with non complicit individuals and police.

Well stated. When I said "you cannot have such a supply chain without demand", I had in mind, the notion that there are society-wide issues in play which are ignored in favor of funding a massive "war on drugs". Maybe misplaced societal priorities? I cannot say; that's way above my pay grade, but it's clear to me that, in the broad vistas of human behaviors, we (the big we) do not seem to have a clear picture of what's really going on.

I think we are all tiptoeing around the issue to be honest. What is the actual problem here and what can be a possible solution?. The problem is obviously that these cartels from MEXICO are taking away high paying jobs away from AMERICAN drug dealers. One of the possible solutions is to intervene so that those jobs come back to America.

These FOREIGNERS with their synthetic drugs have bankrupted every opium den in my town, and along with it, honorable poppy farming jobs.

Now they’re stuck growing KALE for LllllliBERALS just to afford steak for their children’s breakfast.

Quoth the article:

> The cartels “don’t just fill a void, they create a market,” Mr. Dhillon said.

The cartels are also extorting avocado farmers for a cut of their profits. It turns out that, if you have a lot of bad people in power, they find ways to do bad things for personal enrichment.

I stopped buying avocados for this reason. Its the only way to win.

Easy for you if you can just start and stop avocados whenever you like, but what about the rest of us addicts?

Why? You are punishing the avocado growers more than the cartels.

Corruption is rife. Every single transaction you make in an economy contains a percentage of evil (example: surely you disagree with some of what your government does): how did you decide that avocados are beyond your limit and carrots are not?

Its simply easier to track back the effects of the cartel in avacado's than anything else in my purchase radar. But mostly because of this story. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/08/monarch-...

With the price of avocados pushing higher and higher, I think there is too much money in avocado the avocado trade. Farming is basically limited to specific areas. Lowering demand (how ever small) is making a measurable change that I fell like I am contributing to. Voting with my dollars is the only true ways to make a change. As much as this might "hurt" the farmers, it is also hurting the cartel.

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