I’m sure they still have their hands in the cocaine market, but actually what they mainly produce nowadays are meth, fentanyl and heroin. Substances that you can really get people hooked on.
And they are not drugs of the middle and upper class.
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I’d go a step further and say the issue is actually mostly caused by the prohibition of drugs, and specifically the war on drugs, more than anything else. There will always be a demand for intoxicants, and always has been, but it doesn’t follow from that that cartels and narco states must therefore exist as a consequence of the demand.
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Maybe there should be a border wall between America and Mexico to stop the drug trafficking 
One of the things that I’m really worried about is the likely corporatization of recreational drugs. Maryland has struggled with implementing medicinal cannabis permits, the cap on how many permits are issued and the allegations that the permits are being handed out in some cozy deals.
I do think there should be increased legalization and more of a focus on studying stuff like cannabis or even mushrooms to see if scientists can manipulate it in ways that may be beneficial.
You would have to wrap America in a concrete dome. And even then you wouldn’t stop drugs getting in.
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No shortage of either walls or drugs when it comes to prisons 
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Ffs
One of the wildest group of cases I handled as a new prosecutor was a drug ring in the local jail. It involved one guy getting his cellmate’s partner to sew suboxone into the cuffs of court clothing and then drop it off so it was in theory untraceable. The ringleader would then sell the suboxone for something like $25 a strip. And suboxone doesn’t even make you feel good, it just mitigates withdrawal symptoms! My officemate and I had all eight or nine cases, we had to make a Pepe Silvia-style diagram with color coded lines and everything to keep it all straight.
If you can get drugs into places like Angola and San Quentin, then a wall isn’t going to do shit.
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Amazing. Outline the corruption for all to see
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Sorry for the tweet dump. Just painting a picture ;).
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Damn, these right wingers really need to learn how to accept an election result that goes against them
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They didn’t even try to blame the election result on Russia? Idiots! At least copy the side that got away with it, not the ones who are being prosecuted.
Good on sky for shining a light on this corruption
I’d love to know where they were going from/to, because that figure of £840 doesn’t seem believable.
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I could believe £200-£300 for a single return ticket, but £420 sounds crazy even by British train standards
Playing around on Journey Planner, and you have to go from Dover to Glasgow (furthest distance I could think of), on an anytime ticket, to get anywhere close to that amount.
London to Blackburn
Lol was thinking the same, an open return from London at 9am is £100.
London to Blackburn open return with less than 24 hours notice:
So it’s £40 off the the £420 they were claiming but still, £380 for a ticket to Blackburn - that is absolutely fucking balls to the wall insane. It’s not even 4 hours of journey.
This country’s train system is absolutely fucked.
After 9am the price for an open return drops to £104 but that’s still too much to go to fucking Blackburn if you ask me.
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