Hillary Clinton: We Can't Legalize Drugs Because 'There Is Just Too Much Money in It'

[MewTwo]

Hillary Clinton: We Can't Legalize Drugs Because 'There Is Just Too Much Money in It'

Last week, while visiting Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was interviewed by Denise Maerker of Televisa, who asked her opinion of proposals to address black-market violence by repealing drug prohibition. Clinton's response illustrates not only the intellectual bankruptcy of the prohibitionist position but the economic ignorance of a woman who would be president (emphasis added):
Maerker: In Mexico, there are those who propose not keeping going with this battle and legalize drug trafficking and consumption. What is your opinion?

Clinton: I don't think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. There is just too much money in it, and I don't think that—you can legalize small amounts for possession, but those who are making so much money selling, they have to be stopped.

Drug dealers aren't the only ones making money. The drug war is also financially lucrative for governments.

 

[Double J]

Her response made no sense. The reason there's money in it for the cartels is because it's illegal.

 

[daze23]

QUESTION: In Mexico, there are those who propose not keeping going with this battle and legalize drug trafficking and consumption. What is your opinion?

SECRETARY CLINTON: I don’t think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. There is just too much money in it, and I don’t think that – you can legalize small amounts for possession, but those who are making so much money selling, they have to be stopped. They can’t be given an even easier road to take, because they will then find it in their interest to addict even more young people. Mexico didn’t have much of a drug problem before the last 10 years, and you want to keep it that way. So you don’t want to give any excuse to the drug traffickers to be able legally to addict young people.

QUESTION: But in the United States there [is] more and more tolerance for marijuana, right?

SECRETARY CLINTON: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: So this doesn’t seem right. Like the tolerance in the United States, and here we are killing each other for this product.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, the tolerance is in a very limited arena. It is for medical –

QUESTION: Medical use.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Medical use. And there are lots of regulations on it. So it’s not accurate to say, as I’ve heard some say, well, we’re legalizing marijuana. We are not. We are – the biggest – we have more people incarcerated, unfortunately, than any country in the world, and most of them are there because of some drug-related offense. So we know that this is not an easy struggle. We’ve been at it ourselves. But we also believe that you have to keep the pressure on the criminals; otherwise, they will just expand their operations, and then you do have to worry about more corruption, more problems with institutions.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

when she say's there is too much money in it.. there is too much money in fighting it. a lot of jobs would be cut.

 

[SquirtleSwag]

what was she gonna say tho? yes lets legalize drugs

no one politically has the balls to touch the subject, too toxic

 

[daze23]

when she say's there is too much money in it.. there is too much money in fighting it. a lot of jobs would be cut.

I think that's what a lot of people want to take from this, but that's not what she said

although what she did say was rather naive, and I imagine dishonest (in that she knows it's a bunch of crap)

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I think that's what a lot of people want to take from this, but that's not what she said

although what she did say was rather naive, and I imagine dishonest (in that she knows it's a bunch of crap)

that point would be true, but she probably meant that, its a billion dollar instustry so making it legal won't distrupt the flow.

 

[Lurker]

Shes knows what she said, she hit that mexican bytch with the double entendre

 

[88m3]

Mena

 

[Calmye]

the Government is making way to much money off drugs to legaglize it.. not only that but its also a wedge issue that can be used in elections to show how tough a candidate is on crime.. Drugs are way to valuable to the political system in America to just leagalize it... Sad that blacks and latinos are the ones that have to pay the price for it.

 

[Leasy]

Drugs is a big business for private prisons and government. I would love to see the smaller countries start the process of legalizing drugs to see what America and the likes do in response.

 

[88m3]

Drugs is a big business for private prisons and government. I would love to see the smaller countries start the process of legalizing drugs to see what America and the likes do in response.

They continue to hold the line.


Portugal anyone...

 

[newworldafro]

Has there been a thread on this......Colombia seems to have semi-thrown prohibition in the bushes and Uruguay is on their footsteps, at least the mj part.....

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/...630/colombia-decriminalizes-cocaine-marijuana

Colombia decriminalizes cocaine, marijuana
Colombia has decriminalized cocaine and marijuana, saying that people cannot be jailed for possessing the drugs for personal use.
Jill LangloisJune 30, 2012 11:22

Colombia has decriminalized cocaine and marijuana, saying that people cannot be jailed for possessing the drugs for personal use.

Anyone caught with less 20 grams (0.705 ounces) of marijuana or one gram (0.035 ounces) of cocaine for personal use will not be prosecuted or detained, but could be required to receive physical or psychological treatment, depending on their level of intoxication, according to Colombia Reports. Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said law enforcement would continue its fight against drug trafficking, but would not make further comment.

More from GlobalPost: Colombia passes first draft of bill to legalize drug crops

Thursday's ruling challenged Colombia's 2011 citizen's security law, which said anyone found with up to one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of marijuana or 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of cocaine should receive a sentence of at least 64 months in prison, reported the Associated Press. Chief prosecutor Eduardo Montealegre said Friday that the decision did not mean drugs would be legalized.

GlobalPost previously reported that Colombia is also moving toward legalizing drug crops. The country's House of Representatives in May passed the first draft of a bill that would decriminalize growing illegal drug plants, allowing residents to grow coca plants, marijuana plants and opium poppies. But representative Hugo Velasquez Jaramillo was quick to note that although the plants would be legalized, "the processing and trafficking of drugs would remain subject to criminal sentencing."

 

[heisenburrr]

"Government makes too much money from the war on drugs"

Ya'll acting like they wouldn't make ton more from legalizing and taxing it

 

[lachreyatarbabypits]

when she say's there is too much money in it.. there is too much money in fighting it. a lot of jobs would be cut.

The entire DEA tbh would be shut down.