tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11569206.post6072359171987227214..comments2023-10-11T10:57:26.122-04:00Comments on Gil The Jenius: 101 Dead...Millions Held HostageGCSchmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07735900094879466498noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11569206.post-18254482364150672312011-07-05T11:04:15.855-04:002011-07-05T11:04:15.855-04:00Prometeo, spot on. Our size, location and automati...Prometeo, spot on. Our size, location and automatic access to U.S. of part of A. ports makes Us a crossroads in far too many ways. A police captain once told Me that the real estimate of the amount of drugs that moved into and through Puerto Rico was close to 3 tons a day. Let's think about that: 6,000 pounds of drugs a DAY. With a street value of $800 a pound (very conservative), We're looking at $4.8M a day in gross revenue.<br /><br />And who's the best security force to guard this kind of business? Our very own Police force. Any wonder why the recent raid of La Perla was directed by the F.B.I.? We've lost the ability to police Ourselves, literally.<br /><br />The federal government will never let Us pull a Portugal here, but recent marihuana legalization bills have made strides. We learned nothing from Prohibition and the "drug war" has been a more expensive, damaging and stupid experiment prolonged because of institutional greed. That We are forced to play the same idiotic farce is shameful.GCSchmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07735900094879466498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11569206.post-73190199725722287982011-07-05T10:45:10.229-04:002011-07-05T10:45:10.229-04:00As long as we keep imitating the USA´s drug policy...As long as we keep imitating the USA´s drug policy our result will be worse than those they get because of the size difference. Being a smaller island the violence is more concentrated. Well, that´s just a theory of mine. But sadly our drug policy is tied to the USA because of our political situation. <br /><br />If we had the opportunity to try and experiment like Portugal did I´m sure the result would be better for the island. If certain drugs were legalized here and heavily taxed much of the fiscal problems would ease and the consumption reduced. But as long as we keep using a tried and failed model the results... well will be the same and the situation will get worse.Prometeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13034098106919545458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11569206.post-10396370431377487692011-07-05T09:31:39.215-04:002011-07-05T09:31:39.215-04:00Thank you; a mistake I forgot to correct. And than...Thank you; a mistake I forgot to correct. And thank you for the compliments.GCSchmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07735900094879466498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11569206.post-21767144487268030422011-07-05T00:42:34.513-04:002011-07-05T00:42:34.513-04:00Gil, you might want to edit, after #2 you repeated...Gil, you might want to edit, after #2 you repeated the first part of our post.<br /><br />Excellent post, I am going to link to it from my blog tomorrow.Kofla Olivierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09020407690818662882noreply@blogger.com