Following up from yesterday's post, about how our "War on Drugs" amounts to flushing tens of billions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet, where they are washed out to sea and turned into terns' nests, for which the terns are, no doubt, grateful, but which could probably be done more cheaply if tern-nest creation is our only goal, comes news today that Joaquin Guzman has made it onto Forbes' new billionaire's list.
Who's Guzman? Only the most wanted man in Mexico, a murderous drug kingpin, "one of the biggest providers of cocaine to the United States," according to Forbes' senior editor, Luisa Kroll.
From the AP: "Forbes said Mexican and Colombian traffickers laundered between $18 billion and $39 billion in proceeds from wholesale drugs shipments to the United States in 2008."
So how do you stop a criminal capitalist? The same way you stop any capitalist: gunships. No, wait, I mean, not gunships...what's it called? Oh, yeah: more capitalism! Legalization, Taxation, Regulation, Treatment = bye-bye cartels!
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