Fatal Features of the Prohibition Blunder: Destroying Fellow Nations

The War on Drugs is one of complicity, as evidenced in Vice News' excellent 2020 video covering the rise of drug-related violence in Culiacán, Mexico, despite the surge of the global pandemic. Members of the Sinaloa Cartel give access to Vice's Ben Zand, who soon learns that the rise of COVID-19 has shut down borders and halted the drug trade, resulting in increased cartel violence as a desperate means of securing cash via extortion, theft, and government corruption.

The result is a cartel so powerful that it effectively usurps the government—and even funds it at its most senior levels, as one member points out.

Watch the video and compare with more recent Prohibition-related corruption cases. It is only through effective regulation via legalization that the immoral War on Drugs can be stopped and millions of lives—young and old—can be saved.

Watch our video The Prohibition Blunder: Why America Needs Drug Legalization Now to learn more about the effort to legalize and regulate drugs and how #YourPowerfulVoice is the key to shifting to this winning strategy.

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