Unemployed Americans Are Smuggling Drugs to Survive the Pandemic

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Length: 12min 1sec (721 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2021

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[u/EchoBop]

How much they payin 🧐

[u/If_If_Was_a_5th]

SS: From the description - The Sinaloa cartel is enlisting unemployed Americans to move drugs over the border with Mexico. VICE News speaks with cartel members and smugglers adapting to pandemic conditions.

You want drug cartels in the US? This is how you get drug cartels in the US.

[u/thinkB4WeSpeak]

Poverty usually creates a drug epidemic and more crime.

[u/deltoidfly]

Legalize all drugs and put all those people to work in the legal drug industry. Problem solved

[u/shantron5000]

🎶Drug dealin' just to get by

Stackin' money 'till it get sky high

(Kids, sing, kids, sing)

We wasn't supposed to make it past 25

Joke's on you, we still alive

Throw your hands up in the sky and say

We don't care what people say 🎵

[u/boredbitch2020]

Someone has to supply billionaire kids

[u/RedRoseSpeedway1]

Time for Universal Basic Income.

[u/DeaZZ]

If the government fail to cover the peoples needs they will see the consequences in years to come. And they will look like pikachu and deem these people as criminals who doesn't deserve to live, exactly like they do right now.

[u/moose_juice88]

good the government has no right to tell us what substances we can use. while the poison us unknowingly. when they smuggled them in themself. to pay for illegal war fill the private owned prisons up making them billions a year.