Mexican Drug Lord's home after being raided

Feb 14, 2014 6:38 AM

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There was a matched pair of these found.

.357 Magnum semi-automatics with solid gold grips.

This guy had a better gun collection that most legitimate museums do.

Just a quaint little villa in the hills - Drug money bought it all!

Man-made cave and hot tub inside the home.

A collection of exotic animals - which were cared for in the grandest fashion, by the way.

8 Lions were on the property.

A very rare Tiger.

The back yard pool.

Exotic art collection - some of which was illegal to own - some stolen.

More guns than you could ever imagine!

This pile of cash before it was counted was estimated to be approximately 18 Billion Dollars!

After it was counted it turned out to be a little more than 22 Billion Dollars!

From another angle.

Guns were hidden all over the house, along with ample ammo, just in case of trouble.

Stacks of cash were found in every nook and cranny...

This case is filled with 100 dollar Bills estimated to be 1/2 a million dollars and no doubt headed out to make another drug deal with perhaps the Columbia ns.

18 plastic bins filled with 100 dollar bills were found...

Another cabinet stack tight with cash - all 100's.

More 100's.

Each of these stacks of 100's holds USD250,000 (a quarter of a million US dollars)! They also had millions in Columbia n money and Mexican Pesos, although they preferred American dollars for the most part.

There were even stacks of Chinese Yuan found in one closet.

More Gold machine guns and pistols - most were never fired, just held for collection value.

More Gold machine guns and pistols - most were never fired, just held for collection value.

The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the USA for 12 years!
It is estimated to be approximately 27 more of these houses in Mexico alone. Not to mention the ones in other countries who are enriching themselves in the drug trade. These people have so much money, they make the Arab oil sheiks look like welfare recipients. Their money can buy politicians, cops, judges, whatever they need they just throw down stacks of cash and it is theirs! This is why the drug problem is so difficult to fight.

OP needs to get their facts straight.....

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That stack of cash is NOT 22 billion. it was 205 million.

12 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

Oh, well it was just 205 million then. Move along folks.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Guess I'm sleeping in one of my other 27 houses tonight.

12 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 5

ColOmbia... Not Columbia, unless you're talking about the jackets

12 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

or the school

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or the Canadian province. Or the major river. Or the university in NY. Basically, if it's in North America it gets the "u"

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a Colombian-thank you.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thank you! Colombia spelled with a "u" is one of my biggest pet peeves.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or South Carolina

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

..when will they get it right..smh

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

downvoting, cause hyperbole. snopes source below in comments.

12 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

12 years ago | Likes 268 Dislikes 3

I came to upload this gif/upvote it. Take it +1

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Likewise

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was waiting for this gif from the moment I saw the stack of cash

12 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

The shape of his head tho.

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

he's a thumb

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

http://imgur.com/21miBm6

12 years ago | Likes 1194 Dislikes 12

Fucking huell.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

While reading this I was thinking "God damn the top comment better be either that Huell gif or a good enough pun to replace it"

12 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

>> So thank you for not ruining my morning, Greggy-J's Mind.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"I gotta do it"

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

glorious comment...

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TIL, that my dream job is not engineering but drug dealership

12 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Perfect.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was looking for Huell, you gave me Huell, thank you!

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Always upvote Hule.

12 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Huell*

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I knew it was going to be Hule before clicking.

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Dat resolution

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

almost 1 min loading...

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The cash is worth a total of $207 million. Thanks you, Snopes- http://www.snopes.com/photos/crime/drugmoney.asp

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

dam these ppl who make posts without checking any information.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Am I the only one who sees a penis dangling down in the cave pic?

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Nope. That was the first thing I saw while scrolling to see if these photos are compilation or real thing.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

"Paging, Dr. Freud. Paging, Dr. Freud."

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think I've been lied to... http://img.labnol.org/di/100.gif

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

And Welcome to Internet.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So you're saying crime does pay?

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/losing-it.gif mfw I'll never have a gold plated 1911

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

gooby pls That is NOT 22 billion dollars. Can we be sensible? ONE billion looks like this.http://imgur.com/1SNOmpL

12 years ago | Likes 185 Dislikes 1

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12 years ago (deleted Feb 18, 2014 8:19 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I believe they're each one million $100 bills. The ten of them together is one billion dollars.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What's with the little stacks in front? Take this back and make each palette 100 million even!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The little stacks are one thousand and one million dollars respectively for reference. They could have just used a banana...

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Get your billion back, America!

12 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

That's billion, with a B!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

FUKIN H8 THAT COMMERCIAL ON SPOTIFY

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Not just spotify its everywhere.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What denomination are they using in that example?

12 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

$100 bills.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hundreds. It would take 10 million $100 bills to make that; the smallest stack possible.

12 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Presbyterian.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I love the English language.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dolla dolla billz

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's not difficult at all. Just legalize it.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just like alcohol during the prohibition, the violence, the money, it all comes from these things being illegal.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When was this? I'm pretty sure I've seen one of the pictures of the money a few times before a few years ago...

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Those 100 dollar bills look an awful lot like 20 dollar bills.

12 years ago | Likes 959 Dislikes 9

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12 years ago (deleted Jul 30, 2016 10:34 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

So why do most of them in the big stacks have Andrew Jackson on then?

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

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12 years ago (deleted Jul 30, 2016 10:34 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

These are all 20's and say 100's.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

dear america, get different coloured bills - The World

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Optical illusion

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My thoughts exactly.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They bleached out hundred dollar bills to print the twenties.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

$22 billion is bullshit...the haul was not even a billion

12 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 1

Though it should be noted that a single person owning a billion in cash is crazy as it is, and it doesn't include the assets.

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Thank You!

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You keep blinding youself with silly facts.

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Only in the one pic

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ikr

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I would be happy with a stack of "Jacksons" too :D

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

12 years ago | Likes 158 Dislikes 4

I just burst out laughing while my mom is watching figure skating...thank you.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Beautiful. Just beautiful. +1

12 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Made my day! :D

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why the hell don't the US make a bigger bill that the 100 like we have 500 Euro notes? 1/2

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because our population sucks at mathematics and it our government feels as if we need more practice!

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's so that it's harder to transport large amounts of cash - assuming a person wouldn't need to transport a billion in cash w/legal reason.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency they were pulled from production for this exact reason.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It would make that shit a whole lot easier to count (and hide ;-)) 2/2

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pssshhhhhhhhhhhhttt!!! Don't tell them!!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Unless you're rich there is no point in bills that large. Even then checks/credit cards are easier and better to track such transactions.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that war on drugs thing is working out pretty well, right guys?

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

According to reddit and snope it was actually about 200 million in currency all said. This happened in 2007

12 years ago | Likes 2381 Dislikes 4

Yeah, that didn't look like 18 Billion.....and i KNOW what 18 billion looks like.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

There's also a picture saying the stacks are 100's when they are clearly 20's. The interwebs are whack like crack

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

As a Mexican I can tell you they're two different cases

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

As spirals333 noted, refer to this when trying to imagine large ammounts of money. http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/calculations.html

12 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

If they just could do this employing the metric system, it would be perfect.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Wasn't that picture of money from a drug-bust in a flat or something? Nothing to do with this mansion?

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Here yall go /a/T9NP6?gallery

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why is Reddit quoted as source of reliable information on Imgur constantly???

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Haha, the pictures of envisaging billions made the front page in the past few days, and I felt so educated calling bullshit on the billions

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I still know what i wanna be when i grow up. A swat team member. So i can see cool gun collections and 100s of millions of moneys and stuff.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Breaking Bad taught me that that should be somewhere around 100 million. You could say I'm an expert I guess.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, a lot of those 'stacks of 100s' looked like 20s...

12 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 2

100, 20, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 20, 100. He'll never suspect a thing.

12 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

There is a documentary called "How to make money selling drugs". It works its way up from street level to drug lords. Very Interesting.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But i mean that could totally pay for health insurance for 12 years... if no one gets sick ever again! lol

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When people are caught & cash in this amount is found, what happens to it?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, why make billions when you can make... millions ?

12 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

A billion dollars isn't cool. Do you know what's cool? A million dollars.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That did look like about 2 breaking bad stacks!

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

With 22B, that drug lord could have bought 11 B-2 stealth bombers. My doubts be high about the original number...

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

22 billion dollars...people are ridiculous.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Thank you. 18bn would be money stacked to the roof

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

also that south american country is spelled Colombia.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, even if those stacks were of hundreds, there's no way there were 2,500 bills each.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The post is not correct, the pictures are from different events, different cartels. One of them is form army museum.

12 years ago | Likes 116 Dislikes 0

And yet the upvotes keep coming...

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I've seen the money pics on 4chan a long time ago, which genuinely made me suspicious.

12 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

actually one of that pictures is real is the money found at house of a Chinese guy who lived in Mexico and was dealing meth

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well there go my dreams of becoming a drug cartel.

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

The "bed" of money was said to be 22 billion by itself. Whos telling the truth?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So wheres the US health incurance money that we can have for about 12 years?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

$18b just doesn't even make sense, I cannot fathom a drug operation in the Americas taking in that much cash flow even over a decade or two.

12 years ago | Likes 402 Dislikes 10

Google a picture of a billion dollars. Just one billion takes up almost 12 pallets stacked 5 feet high.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Really? a decade? As cash flow? $283bn USD in drug was used to bailout banks during the 2008 economic crash in america alone. One op could1

12 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 5

Thank you, I read that and became angry. 22 billion, who wrote this post?

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

move at least $20bn+ a year in product, probably a solid $3-7bn profit, for a basic large scale. It's one of the 3 largest trades worldwide.

12 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 2

Yeah, but you have to split those profits worldwide. Drug trade is making people rich all over the place, not just Mexico.

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

$20bn wasn't the worldwide number, it's a single operation. The majority of the profits goes to the drug lord of the operation.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah but here's the problem, not a single drug bust in the history of the world has been worth 20 billion. The largest was 4 billion (1/2)

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep. Illegal drug and weapon market + prostitution is estimated to be worth 25% of the world GDP.

12 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

Prostitution isn't a trade though, it's a service. Weapons, Oil, and Drugs are the 3 largest trades. (I'm not doubting your internet facts)

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's not an internet fact actually, I read it in one of the european commission's reports over the subject of drugs.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

People's visa are stolen, and they typically force them to be drug addicts to be sure they will remain under their influence.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Prostitution was linked because it is a legal trade in many countries here, and when it's illegal, it leads to human trade (like slaves)

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Kept waiting to see the comic books and Magic cards.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And a sweet dirt bike! [Gold-plated, of course.]

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Yeah I think that's about 18 billion dollars" *Stuffs 4 billion dollars into pants*

12 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Your mother manages to stuff 4 billion dollars into her pants (http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/calculations.html)

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

signed in only to upvote this!

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

thanks for the effort! :)

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

thanks for the effort :D

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did you think no one would notice the flipped money cabinet pic? It's so obvious and look at the damn drawers, the handles are upside down!

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I think those first guns are .45 automatics, not .357

12 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

ssshhhhhhhh. Let's see if they figure it out.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They make .357 magnum 1911s. And they are semi-auto, not automatic.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What is it with crime lords and golden weapons?

12 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 4

If I should ever get shot, then it should be with a golden gun!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Too much CoD

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Most crime lords list "The man with the Golden Gun" as the film that most influenced them into a life of crime.

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

They've reached level 55. Easy.

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Borderlands 2 man

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well they have a fucktonne of illegal money with nothing meaningful to spend it on, may as well get some golden AK-47's.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Better call Saul.

12 years ago | Likes 162 Dislikes 2

YOU <3

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I knew I would be too late...

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's never too late when he's getting his own spin off show!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jose, we need to cook.

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Wait, so the richest man in the world could actually be a druglord? like the top 10 richest people in the world, might not even be close?

12 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 4

Yeah but does that really surprise you, like, really surprise you?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was estimate that at his peak, Pablo Escobar was worth between $18-27Bn, which would've put him among the 5-10 richest ppl in the world

12 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

LOL his name is Pablo Escobar

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

That sounds about right. That's the problem with these commodities being in high demand, but also being highly illegal.

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Also no taxes!

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Can we not be silly? The answer is no. The amount of money we're talking about is past the possibility of physically having. 1/2

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

For the richest people(Helu, Gates, Buffet), it's all theoretically what their holdings are worth. Nothing physical. 2/2

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

"More guns than you could ever imagine" - 16 guns. There were 16 guns in that pic. You clearly don't know me.

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Those are only the ones pictured. Lol i dont think anyone whos not a billionaire could match that collection lol in gold weapons

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I can imagine 22 guns!

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a Texan, I concur.

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

some of them were gold though

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In raids like this, where do all the money go?

12 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

The last photo shows what they do...

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nowhere that it's really needed, probably.

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Politicians, rich people... Eventually back to drug business.

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It's seized by the Government performing the raid and usually ends up funding further drug-busting operations.

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Ok, that seems quite reasonsble, except, in this case there is 22 billion dollars!! How much does a drug bust cost?

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

200 mil. not b. m.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Then again, we ARE dealing with Mexico. Where the government ends and the cartel begins is a blurry line. Safe to say that money will vanish

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

as someone born in Sinaloa Mexico, i can assure you that all the money seized here went either staright into the pockets of politicians 1/2

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

2/2 or right back into the bank account of whoever was busted. also prisons in mexico let you live like a king if you pay them money.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't believe the money. The stack seems too small. Especially considering that the crate is only 1/2 mil.

12 years ago | Likes 193 Dislikes 1

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Snopes says $205M

12 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 0

Seems far more reasonable.

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Well it is a common misconception as to how much a million or billion dollars actually looks like in 100s tho im not sure that's 22Bil

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

I didn't know that dollar bills were so thick

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

you did see the first packet is made of 100 x 100$ bills not just one ... i was irritated at first too

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah I did not see that, good sir. I withdraw my original remark and raise you a vote.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Exactly, a billion is like 8 pallets. So 22billion should stack a truck or two.

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

did you see "Breaking Bad" episode with the cash in the storage locker? A few hundred million at most. Still . . .

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and they say crime doesn't pay

12 years ago | Likes 391 Dislikes 7

Well... it pays a little...

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You just have to be willing to hang people

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Oh and behead people,kill off whole family's.yup crime sure pays

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Well, they found this after a successful raid. It pays until it doesn't.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Crime only pays the doctor, when ya get shot

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sure it pays... until the police bust down your door and you either go to jail, or get shot down for resisting arrest.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It certainly pays. It just costs a lot too.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Getting caught doesnt pay.. crime is highly lucrative. just look at wall street and their corporate thieves...

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

So, I used to work a job which meant I had to have business lunches with the DPP in Perth, Australia. One thing I learnt crime pays and well

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

It's only illegal if they catch you right

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Crime pays best!!!!!!!!! Police HATE THEM!!!!!!!!!

12 years ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 1

"why u do dis" -police

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Learn this one weird trick to becoming a drug lord...

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Pablo escaba's making $22 Billion from home! click here to find out how!

12 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

*clicks*

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

CEO's hate him!

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Well apparently he did get caught so...

12 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

He probably bribed his way out

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He might have gotten away with it, if his brother in law didn't have to take a shit..

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

*I undestood that reference gif*

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

or if it hadn't of been for you kids!

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's very obvious the 'war on drugs' is working.

12 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 6

This....this is in mexico?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Who do you think is buying all these drugs?

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The 'war' will keep happening so long as folks keep buying drugs from criminals, I think.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

They need to be given other options because where I'm standing, ALL drug dealers are criminals (to the justice system). LEGALIZE. REGULATE.

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

if by working we mean "we are getting our asses handed to us routinely" then yes, it has been an astounding success

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

this is why we must legalize and regulate not just weed, but all drugs.

12 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 7

just imagine all that money being available for health care or pensions

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

I wouldn't go quite that far. There's a few that are too much of a danger to others, like PCP(because drug-fueled rampage).

12 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 9

added "benefits" of having to deal with drug dealers and lower likelihood of addicts seeking help. [2]

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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12 years ago (deleted Feb 28, 2014 7:07 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

If you're thinking of Portugal, they decriminalised it but didn't make it legal. It's treated as a health issue as opposed to a crime.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I believe the danger is amplified by making them illegal. When they're illegal, people still get their hands on them and it comes with [1]

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I really don't see how legalizing and trying to tax something anyone can grow themselves would do a damn thing.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

I used to brew my own beer but I would also go out and buy it.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Businesses are easier to run than cartels, which makes them attractive. Helps you convince them to follow strict health/safety guidelines.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That is how we legalized corruption in the united states by creating lobbyists who have to report contributions.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Better 2 hav a corrupt political system tht people r aware of than an underground system tht uses brutality and death 2 advance thier agenda

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hold it buddy. I'm not saying legal weed is a bad idea, alcohol is more harmful than weed, but all drugs? No, that would cause more problems

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 10

If I want to see a pink elephant fucking a unicorn, then I want to be able to go to the chemist,tell him that and he can advise what to take

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

and prepare it for me, so I can take it as safely as possible

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Whether it causes problems or not isn't the issue. It's not the government's right to tell me what I can put in my body

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Yeah! LETS INJECT ALL THE HEROIN IN THE WORLD!

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

and so much more good if we just stopped treating drug addiction like a crime. its a disease that must be treated like all diseases 2/?

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

well we could: tax the stuff, regulate it and be able to help addicts instead of just throwing them into a cell, stop the cartels, 1/??

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

This may reduce the Cartel's influence, but it won't stop them. They'll just revert to crimes that don't revolve around drugs

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

plus, we wouldn't be having these problems (the drug cartels). look at Uruguay and what they're doing with marijuana. we could be like that!

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I agree that's what we should do with weed but a lot of other drugs are way more harmful(alcohol) There's a reason they are illegal you know

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The reason is profit. The United States has more people per capita in prison that any other country, and I believe around 80 percent of [1]

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

those prisoners are there for drug-related offenses, mostly non-violent. The war on drugs continues primarily due to a combination [2]

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

of private prison lobbyists and ignorant traditionalism. [3]

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When everything is legal, Less people will actually use drugs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_liberalization

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