The root of problematic drugs

[denialisback]

Currency allows for the exchange of goods and services.

Before money, civilization had trade/barter and beads, trinkets, goats and scripts.

hey, this is my point! thats what existed before.. trademan, ever tried to sell drugs via trade? no consolidation == no ability of profiteering via consolidation

Money is the way in which to have what you want and to get rid of what you don't.

Absolutely, I'd insist upon this, thats how drug industry capitalisation can be consolidated and untraceable.

Sure beats hauling a truck load of stuff when you only have a compact to drive.

exactly!!!

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.

I have been thinking about this a lot an you are right that will be the way forward.

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.

aww sucky, I hope you didn't give up! You have to ask yourself why he didn't print it, i'm still not sure

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.

yeah I have been thinking about this a lot, you are right, soon criminals will have an electronic war to wage that will be much harder than weighted cash consolidation..

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.

I somehow can't see money being totally erradicated.

Money is not the ''cause''

Of course it is , and if its not the cause i'd insist that its the only direct way to gang consolidation as I'm sure you'd agree..

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

hmm, I feel like we could get in a tit for tat on definition here.. so i will be careful but essentially consolidation is just that, trading something you have a high surplus of, and exchanging it for an invariably large sum of cash

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.

Maybe creating cash, and its apparent consolidation sub-systems of warfare/gang criminality/death/gun trade was a mistake then...

IF cannabis was legalized, then the Mexican drug cartels would lose nearly 70% of their income.
A good start.

Can't argue that one

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.

word! lol


Peace,
Denial