Currency allows for the exchange of goods and services.

Before money, civilization had trade/barter and beads, trinkets, goats and scripts.
Money is the way in which to have what you want and to get rid of what you don't.
Sure beats hauling a truck load of stuff when you only have a compact to drive.
More and more we are moving away from cash money and going to debit cards and electronic banking.
This is happening because the loss in bad checks, theft, crime and such costs us all 100s of millions and millions.

Back in the 1980s I wrote an article for the Albuquerque Journal about having ATM machines in 7-11s, gas stations and most all stores and retail venues.
The editor did not publish my article saying he wanted to save me embarrassment.
The editor insisted no ATMs because who's are they and who gets the fees and all?
So much for an editor's biased lame liberal opinion.

Soon we will not have cash currency and will rely solely on electronic banking for all our trade needs.
Gone will be bad checks and lost/stolen IDs.

The "gangs" will have the need to come up with store fronts perse to take in the money and this will keep them from stashing millions in cash that cannot be banked or spent in the numbers over $10K which is the Federal amount to be reported, etc.
No doubt crime orgs will devise a way in which to bank the drug monies by other means.

Money is not the ''cause''

The love, power, desire and status of money and what money can buy and own, is.

So long as there is human nature to sin in all human beings there will be those who know no limits in what they do to others.

IF cannabis was legalized, then the Mexican drug cartels would lose nearly 70% of their income.
A good start.
But..as the cannabis is being seized at the borders, the wet backs are moving into the National Forest in California and growing to then sell far more easily than smuggling pressed bricks of crap across the boarder.







Quote Originally Posted by denialisback
mmm... legalisation would work well, but I think the point is hideous amounts of money cant be made legally sub-legally or illegally by gangs... I think alot of the damage is from the destabilising effect when drugs are turned into money (in countries, streets, counties etc)..


Would be good if people made some more smart thoughts about this, it's not just as simple as alcohol vs weed. More that money is the cause of the drug industry being as strong as it is

Peace,
denial
Doobee Reviewed by Doobee on . The root of problematic drugs I've been thinking carefully and long about marijuana and drugs as a whole for about 10 years, no not doing them, apart from mmj but I've come to some pretty bizarre and damning conclusions. I have noticed how a lot of gangs, criminals and/or underground networks distribute drugs for the sole purpose of money and/or the control that comes with it. Often the DEA and other enforcement agencies mistakenly identify civilians doing the drugs as offenders, I believe this not to be true, given Rating: 5