Comments on: Hezbollah and Drug Lords: A Dangerous Alliance http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hezbollah-and-drug-lords-a-deadly-alliance/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:06:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hezbollah on Drugs » The Aviation Nation http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hezbollah-and-drug-lords-a-deadly-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-154436 Hezbollah on Drugs » The Aviation Nation Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:40:36 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=38805#comment-154436 [...] Hezbollah and Drug Lords: A Dangerous Alliance: Traffickers are frighteningly able to help their new partners smuggle deadly weapons. [...] [...] Hezbollah and Drug Lords: A Dangerous Alliance: Traffickers are frighteningly able to help their new partners smuggle deadly weapons. [...]

]]> By: tomWright http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hezbollah-and-drug-lords-a-deadly-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-153929 tomWright Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:39:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=38805#comment-153929 Richard is correct. We should admit to the lessons of alcohol prohibition, that they also apply to everything else that people demand regardless of legal status. If we were to regulate all recreational drugs in a manner similar to how we treat alcohol, we would devastate organized crime as effectively as happened when prohibition was repealed. My view is that the natural forms of these drugs should legal, though regulated. So natural opium, cocaine, marijuana and others would be legally sold by licensed dealers who are known and monitored for compliance with the rules just like the corner liquor store. It could even BE the corner liquor store. The producers and distributors would also be regulated just as the various tobacco vendors, breweries and distillers are today. The highly refined versions of the drugs should continue to be considered pharmaceuticals, available with a physicians order, as they are today. Doing this would eliminate one of the biggest sources of revenue, if not the largest, that funds organized crime and terrorist organizations. It would also remove a huge source of corruption from our police, court and political systems. Richard is correct.

We should admit to the lessons of alcohol prohibition, that they also apply to everything else that people demand regardless of legal status.

If we were to regulate all recreational drugs in a manner similar to how we treat alcohol, we would devastate organized crime as effectively as happened when prohibition was repealed.

My view is that the natural forms of these drugs should legal, though regulated. So natural opium, cocaine, marijuana and others would be legally sold by licensed dealers who are known and monitored for compliance with the rules just like the corner liquor store. It could even BE the corner liquor store. The producers and distributors would also be regulated just as the various tobacco vendors, breweries and distillers are today.

The highly refined versions of the drugs should continue to be considered pharmaceuticals, available with a physicians order, as they are today.

Doing this would eliminate one of the biggest sources of revenue, if not the largest, that funds organized crime and terrorist organizations. It would also remove a huge source of corruption from our police, court and political systems.

]]> By: Richard http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hezbollah-and-drug-lords-a-deadly-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-151535 Richard Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:46:47 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=38805#comment-151535 This is another example of why the War on (some) Drugs is a failed policy. The only thing achieved by prohibition is to make dealing in these substances extremely profitable. Notice that the terrorist cells and gangsters are *not* funded by trafficking in cigarettes or alcohol, just the stuff that is illegal. The War on (some) Drugs is a failed policy and only results in creating more misery and crime than it prevents. This is another example of why the War on (some) Drugs is a failed policy. The only thing achieved by prohibition is to make dealing in these substances extremely profitable. Notice that the terrorist cells and gangsters are *not* funded by trafficking in cigarettes or alcohol, just the stuff that is illegal. The War on (some) Drugs is a failed policy and only results in creating more misery and crime than it prevents.

]]> By: Tinfoil Hatter http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hezbollah-and-drug-lords-a-deadly-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-150463 Tinfoil Hatter Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:55:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=38805#comment-150463 The Hezbollah problem is like an onion; the more you peel it, the more it makes you cry. Short of a full scale invasion of Syria, Hezbollah will continue to have safe haven in Lebanon, where their "state-within-a-state" serves to give them almost all the advantages of a state, and all the advantages of non-state actor. The Hezbollah problem is like an onion; the more you peel it, the more it makes you cry.

Short of a full scale invasion of Syria, Hezbollah will continue to have safe haven in Lebanon, where their “state-within-a-state” serves to give them almost all the advantages of a state, and all the advantages of non-state actor.

]]> By: SAF http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hezbollah-and-drug-lords-a-deadly-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-150237 SAF Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:17:18 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=38805#comment-150237 Our enemies will do anything to harm us while we are unwilling to wire tap phones let alone field other effective anti-terrorist programs. The press was all too happy to engage in a war on Bush. Hezbollah will continue to be effective as long as we let them have safe haven in Iran. So with policies like these guess who is going to lose? Our enemies will do anything to harm us while we are unwilling to wire tap phones let alone field other effective anti-terrorist programs. The press was all too happy to engage in a war on Bush.

Hezbollah will continue to be effective as long as we let them have safe haven in Iran.

So with policies like these guess who is going to lose?

]]> By: CM Smith http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hezbollah-and-drug-lords-a-deadly-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-150132 CM Smith Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:50:49 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=38805#comment-150132 Interesting to note the photo used above was revealed to be one of the many hoax photos willingly accepted by a gullible US media. The original caption claimed the Hezbollah fighter was guarding the site of an Israeli air strike but he's actually posing in front of a garbage dump. Interesting to note the photo used above was revealed to be one of the many hoax photos willingly accepted by a gullible US media.

The original caption claimed the Hezbollah fighter was guarding the site of an Israeli air strike but he’s actually posing in front of a garbage dump.

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