Family Ties Ensnared Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, Most Wanted Drug Lord

The key to capturing one of the world's most wanted men may have been the thing he held dearest: his family. What a farce! Saying this man is responsible for 'millions of ravaged lives' are a complete and utter hypocrisy. That's like saying drugs cause addiction when fact is, most people who use drugs -even narcotics, will never become addicts. Most people can be given morphine in a hospital, even if they get physically addicted, they are detoxed, and will not become drug addicts once they leave the hospital. Addiction has roots and causes, almost invariably tied to early childhood trauma. Prohibition is the problem. Outdated drug policies based on outdated mores and knowledge. All drugs should be under the domain of the medical community, period.

  I think I agree with The idea that outlawing something will somehow keep people from doing it is a fantasy and has been shown time and time again not to work. Outlawing something that is highly sought after only creates an area where crime will thrive. These narcotics that on the street have the value of pure gold, actually only cost pennies to manufacture! It is the prohibition that drives up the price, and drives the crime. It is now estimated that roughly one trillion dollars in illicit drug proceeds worm their way into the coffers of the international banking houses annually. Ever major bank has faced charges of drug laundering yet not one banker has been imprisoned. The bank simply pays a fine and business goes on as usual. But they want to blame drug dealers. It is not the dealers that make and maintain these flawed policies. It is an absurd hypocrisy to tell people from communities where there are no jobs that they should not work for the only paying job they can get. We have 25% of world prison population here in the 'land of the free' despite the fact that we only have 5% of the global population. We have millions of non-violent drug offenders in prisons, housed by public corporations whose stock values rise and fall with the numbers of prisoners they are keeping. Things are the way they are because they serve the status quo. Wall St is in love with its illicit trillions. And greed knows no bounds.