Drug running in the old days via airplane

[Ninurta]

The drug scene, following on the coattails of Prohibition, has played a huge role in enabling the massive corruption we now confront.

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Gene Hasenpfuss sure got in a world of hurt over it back in the '80s.

Prohibition of anything leads to corruption, as people who don't feel it should be prohibited will set up networks to make sure it isn't, and rake in big piles of cash while they do. Nearly ALL black markets are there because someone prohibited something, and other someones still demanded what was prohibited and were willing to pay for it. The Mob, Mafia, Organized Crime, whatever one wants to call it, got it's legs under it in a big way due to prohibitions, originally on alcohol, later of drugs, gambling, and prostitution. Without Prohibition, they would have remained small time.

Without the current drug prohibition, the Mexican cartels would still be small time. As it is, drug prohibition has given them the operating capital to branch out into human trafficking now.

Whenever ANYTHING gets prohibited, it opens a door for a lucrative black market, and there will always be people around who are willing to run the risks and exploit that market for cash. Drugs here, American blue jeans in the Soviet Union - any prohibition is a money-maker for someone, somewhere.

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