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by hso9791 4974 days ago
The thugs would be ratting the drug lords out all over the place to get plea bargains.

The biggest winner in the war on drugs are criminal enterprises, just because of the profit margins. These are agricultural products that anyone could produce given some soil and modest investments. How could this sustain the lavish lifestyles the top of the cartels have gotten used to?