Criminal drug gangs have become a grave threat to European security by flooding the streets with South American cocaine, seeking to corrupt officials and hiring a new wave of paid assassins, according to the EU’s drugs agency.
This year has served up stark examples. A police union in southern Spain said the state had “lost control” of the fight against traffickers. A judge said Belgium was at risk of becoming a “narco-state”. And the killing of an anti-drug activist’s brother in Marseille heightened fears that France was heading the same way.
It’s still bonkers to me, how we went through prohibition in America, and learned that you can’t control people’s behavior and that people love to get wasted or tipsy, but we can’t apply the same lessons learned to other drugs, and alcohol is very much a drug. It’s a fools errand to even attempt to eradicate drug use, it’s a waste of money and ruining countless lives every day, we need education, treatment, MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS AND REMOVING STIGMAS RELATED TO ASKING FOR HELP.