The mayor of a Mexican city plagued by drug violence has been murdered less than a week after taking office.
Alejandro Arcos was found dead on Sunday in Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero. He had been mayor for six days.
Evelyn Salgado, the state governor, said the city was in mourning over a murder that “fills us with indignation”. His death came three days after the city government’s new secretary, Francisco Tapia, was shot dead.
Authorities have not released details of the investigation, or suspects. However, Guerrero is one of the worst-affected states for drug violence and drug cartels have murdered dozens of politicians across the country.
Jesus fucking christ dude, you have problems.
You literally asked me a question, then gave a 4 page thesis on why my personal answer was wrong.
Alcohol is incredibly destructive, and on a wider scale, because it’s legal and available, heroin and/or cocaine would be worse.
Congratulations on not getting your ass kicked by cocaine, you seem very proud. It has destroyed a lot more lives, and I’d argue the number of victims are proportionately higher than for alcohol.
But you could resist it, therefore everyone else who can’t is what, weaker? Inferior? Not worthy? I suppose people who couldn’t survive covid also shouldn’t be counted because most people survived?
I am not arguing against medicalized mdma, and as I said, I’m fine with decriminalizing cocaine because there’s no reason to send people to jail for something like that, but because of your religious “Drugs are just a way to open your mind, man!” bs you can’t breathe for a second and think “hey, maybe there’s this middle ground, drugs have positive uses, but also negative factors and a responsible person should be wary of both”.
You’re like an ammosexual who doesn’t understand why 5-year olds shouldn’t open carry.
Chill, I’m worried the drugs have left some damage on you.
I really had faith in you man. Why couldn’t you just accept that you might be wrong, and that the things you claim to strive for are actually accomplished by the things I propose. You do not need to take my word for it. That’s why I left all the links.
But no… you have to be the dime in a dozen pseudointellectual. You don’t understand that decriminalisation and legalisation REDUCE ABUSE, which is what is what is dangerous about drugs. Responsible use is not really risky, as long as it truly is responsible. You don’t understand that the VAST MAJORITY of users of illegal drugs are more or less responsible users. You never see them, because they don’t admit to it, because of the social implications.
ALL the science shows that drug abuse, overdose deaths, dependence rates and usage rates for the worst substances go down with decriminalisation and legalisation. This isn’t debatable. It’s a verifiable fact.
Oh because it’s legal and available? You dumb mf, it’s MUCH more destructive and available when it’s illegal. Legalising and regulating drugs would make it HARDER to get them, not EASIER. In any prison pretty much anywhere in the world, there are drug markets. They’re incredibly expensive, but the one place where you’re supposed to not be able to get drugs is probably literally the easiest. You simply do not understand the subject. I had (past tense) the faith that you would take the reasonable position once you inform yourself on the matter, but you simply refuse to even consider that you might be wrong.
You’re the person who’s advocating for 2A rights because you think the government will try to attack you and you’ll have to defend your freedums from a nuclear bunker with your handguns, because you don’t realise what the science actually says about gun control.
Gun control, just like legalising drugs, achieves the same thing. Guns need more regulation (in the US that is, our country is fine, because we have actually reasonable gun laws, while still being in the top10 for gun ownership). Drugs also need more regulation. The only way to achieve that regulation is to take control of the black market, because there’s ZERO regulation in the black market.
I could write more on exactly why you’re being utterly stupid about this, but since you didn’t respond to a single point (which literally proves your points wrong), why would I bother writing more? I had high hopes for you, but no, you had to be another childish cockwomble who can’t take a moment to actually think and that’s why YOU are indirectly (but strongly) supporting people dying to drug overdoses, destroying their lives with hard drugs, and all the cartel violence. That’s on you, for refusing to inform yourself of this GLOBAL issue.
I actually have a conscience and want to help substance abusers, so I actually read what the literature says, what experts think, what the statistics show. I know. And I support what helps with this issue, while asinine idiots like you can’t do anything but try to yell “druggie” when someone brings up the subject. How’d you miss the fact that I don’t use drugs? Oh right, because you didn’t read the comment you replied to, because you’re just on Lemmy to try to “win” debates and not actually have conversations.