[PhasmaFelis]

The cause-and-effect is backwards. They don't sell drugs so they can kill lots of people. They kill lots of people so they can sell drugs.

Either way, there's a lot of violence happening directly because of drug cartels, foreign and domestic.

[hn_throwaway_99]

Great, legalize drugs and that all goes away.

[rothbardrand]

For an example of this, check out Portugal that legalized and had great success.

I wonder if anyone can point to place where drugs are legalized and violence increased? Where addiction increased?

Seems absurd, yet people don't think the drug war is absurd-- they don't immediately see this takeover of Hanza as the government illegally operating a black market for weeks and thus committing massive crime, and they don't see the shutdown of the market as a further crime violating the rights of the sellers to sell something that morally and practically their buyers should be able to buy (when it comes to drugs anyway)

[Mtinie]

The legality of committing crimes while in pursuit of criminal prosecutions is interesting.

Here's a reference for your reading pleasure (though this is, I believe, U.S.-centric, so not exactly the case here)

https://www.quora.com/Are-undercover-cops-allowed-to-break-t...

[rhizome]

You might be interested in the Playpen case going on now:

https://www.eff.org/pages/playpen-cases-frequently-asked-que...