> the US which always pushed us to fight drugs from this side, while they don't seem to do much from their side
Isn't the typical complaint that the US does too much to fight drugs?
Isn't the typical complaint that the US does too much to fight drugs?
Throwing an entire generation of drug users in jail did little to curb the actual inflow if illegal drugs into America.
This is not true in the US. We have no politicians that are suspected of being involved with cartels.
While our policies might not help the situation, no politician is actually working with traffickers.
What I can say is it has happened here for a long time, and no one questioned as they were also in control of the media. Just until recently it became widely known the 20+ years of smoke of “fight against drugs”. Maybe over there is different, or maybe is not a big of a deal, as, even if there is a lot of money in drugs, there is orders of magnitude more money in big tech, and also from a cleaner origin, so who knows.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...
The problem is that people want to do cocaine, they just do. I’ve been to plenty of parties full of people who aren’t into drugs, the type from well of families with good degrees and good jobs who’ve never been arrested, where cocaine is brought out because it’s considered a party drug like ecstasy among the American middle/upper class. When people like that are willing to spend hundreds of dollars there is a lucrative market and someone is going to supply it. So when American agencies take down large scale operations another (usually decentralized) group swoops in and the cycle repeats.
One of the most disturbing findings is that the largest busts are almost always precipitated by some individual getting caught who is absolutely insistent that they didn't know that a brick of coke was taped to their gas tank (or similar). Previously, those individuals might go straight to prison for a decade or more on trafficking charges. Now that agencies (and defense lawyers) are catching on, there is now a lot of credence given to the idea that those individuals are actually unwitting drug mules used to distract CBP agents from doing their jobs while they slip truckloads past them at the border.
How many "drug traffickers" have we imprisoned that have merely been pawns in a drug trafficking scheme that they had no part in?
Well, I can only speak from this side, I don’t really know what happens in the US, but here we have always been fooled by the media, so maybe it can happen there too. And we all know what politicians are capable of.