Lalo Alcaraz for March 10, 2023

Both truth neither excuses the other

If we would treat opiate addiction and similar chemical addictions as a medical problem instead of as a criminal problem, we do have the means to make real progress on it. Also, a lot of the fentanyl is made in China…

It’s our voracious appetite for drugs that fuel the Mexican cartels. I’d be interested to see if there’s a drop in violence if we just legalized cannabis on a federal level. Illinois legalized 3 years ago and society didn’t collapse. Our mayor said the taxes from 3 dispensaries was more than the 50-odd restaurants. He opposed them, now admits he was wrong. And he’s a Republican.

China is the main source of Fentanyl, not Mexico.

Blame Mexicans or anyone else you want but he fact is, if there were no demand there would be no supply. If a large group of Americans want billions of dollars worth of ANYTHING, someone will come along to sell it to them- legally or not.

Only takrs call republicans with ethics RINOs (takrs = trump a$$ kissing republicans) There are good republicans, then there are those who goose step to a distorted party line to support their oligarchy leanings toward fascism

One thing to say positive about the cartels, if the republicans and rich start a civil war, the U.S. dollar will be useless, and the cartels and organized crime will demand restitution for the hundreds of billions they will lose. All those former politicians will need quit large security forces, but hay since the dollar = $0,00 they will have no money to pay for it. Like Winston said in John Wick 1 Did you (they) chew it down to the bone before sticking their fingers into it? Don’t think so!

On Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called for the “fury and might” of the U.S. to be unleashed on Mexican drug cartels.

Oooo! Fury and Might! We’re all really mollified!

He’s gonna hit them with his purse!

If that fails, he’ll wait until the wind direction changes . . . like always.

We got the hunger, money, and guns. Is it any surprise that drug gangs would go ahead and fulfill our orders?

you’ll never stop the supply as long as there’s a demand. if you really want to end the cartels you need to take away their customers

Oklahoma has legal medical marijuana, but many of the grow fields are owned by Chinese businesses through American frontmen. Lots of illegalities happening and the state does not have the regulators or lawmen to oversee the growing black market. The bill that would have legalized pot had plans for oversight, of the growers and the sellers and freed law enforcement and provided regulators and people to manage the systems. But the problems with the current system and the answers were not given to the voters, I only knew what I did from having talked with my local sheriff and his deputies and reading the bill.

“Hecho en China”, not Mexico. They’re just the middlemen.

America’s insatiable appetite for opiate like drugs was bolstered by unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies and their legions of script’ docs doling them out for years. A few years back the US “got tough” on big pharma and the docs and the legal supply dried up. Where do you think all the pill junkies are going to go for their product now? Straight to the street for their risky Fentanyl fix. The problem is not China or Mexico but the legal opiate trade right in the wild west medicine show here in the good ole USA. That’s who got your loved ones addicted. Now there are no incentivized programs to help American citizens kick the habit, only profit driven, capitalist drug ventures, just what started it all to begin with.

I have zero sympathy for drug addicts, much like alcoholics or smokers. They willingly put it in their bodies in the first place.

Shouldn’t that be hecho in China, traficado a través de México?

As long as gop boobs get their way – addiction will always remain high. Among both parties. The fools have cut off their own faces to spite others. Yet claim to be fine christians. Just actors – Pharisees of their time.

Blaming Mexico for our addiction, is like blaming McDonald’s because with that. T ake some responsibility. I f you are stupid enough to do drugs, then you should die. D ecrease the surplus population. T o quote Ebenezer Scrooge

Lalo exempted CHINA!

@SofaKing: “It’s our voracious appetite for drugs that fuel the Mexican cartels. I’d be interested to see if there’s a drop in violence if we just legalized cannabis on a federal level. Illinois legalized 3 years ago and society didn’t collapse.”

WTF? This cartoon is about fentanyl, not about cannabis!

Your comment and virtually all that followed it, which name only cannabis, are like responding to the epidemic of school shootings by saying that we need to change the way we deal with cap pistols and their use by children.

Besides, I doubt that the Mexican cartels even bother to traffic in cannabis anymore. Way too little profit. (Among other things, it’s nowhere near as addictive.)

Meanwhile, fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and even heroin are real problems, destroying lives, families, and even communities. And Mexico is far from the only source. They are what we need to deal with, both treatment and source(s).