Rising GOP support for the U.S. taking unilateral military action in Mexico against drug cartels is increasingly rattling people on both sides of the border who worry talk of an attack is getting n…

Rising GOP support for the U.S. taking unilateral military action in Mexico against drug cartels is increasingly rattling people on both sides of the border who worry talk of an attack is getting normalized.

Wednesday’s Republican presidential primary debate featured high-stakes policy disagreements on a range of issues from abortion to the environment — but found near-unanimous consensus on the idea of using American military force to fight drug smuggling and migration.

  • @vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
    1•1 year ago

    but you simply cannot have recreational use of drugs like narcotics and cocaine.

    Sorry for being obnoxious, but everything discussed, including alcohol, nicotine and caffeine, is a narcotic.

    I guess you mean ones causing serious dependency (the three I mentioned are kinda as bad as coke in this) and serious harm at the same time (alcohol is still one the list, but coke and heroine, ofc, are worse).

    • @PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
      2•1 year ago

      You are technically incorrect. Narcotics are the name for opiates and opiate containing drugs.

      It is the people that call all drugs narcotics who are doing so technically incorrectly. I’d prefer people use words correctly, but I refuse to be a prescriptivist.