• x00z@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Cartels love to have drugs illegal, as that generates a ton of money. But they also want to make sure that they can operate without too much resistance. Not only does it not make sense to hunt for ICE officers instead of DEA agents, it would also be against their own business interests to generate this amount of heat.

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      4 hours ago

      Even hunting DEA agents is a massive stretch.

      On a purely cost-benefit analysis basis, hunting for DEA agents is simply not worth it, it makes more business sense to take the loss and focus on the fact that drugs will continue to be profitable until there is full decriminalization (of any drug consumption) and legalization of less harmful drugs.