The Mexican government has sent troops to deal with the drug cartals and even though the Mexican government may loose it has had a significant impact on cocaine supplies in theUSA. The article below is about the drop in cocaine in Canada.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_re_ca/canada_vancouver_drugs
Since the majority of meth is made in Mexico has its availabilty been affected by the crackdown?
yes and no…many Americans cross the border to buy unlimited supplies of the OTC meds used to make meth
Does Obama have a backup supplier?
Drug War in Mexico? That’s joke and there is no such a thing; the Drug cartels have many Mexican military, police and government officers on their pockets and everybody knows it.
Yes they do some “arrests” but that’s just for shows and mostly to get rid of the competition.
If there is a shortage of meths in Canada it has nothing to do with the so called “drug war”. There are many other factors that affect the supply in Canada. Besides drug dealer are always competing for control so they need not much of an excuse to kill each-other.
Methamphetamine is common in some areas of the USA (the south east/mid-west) and not very common in others (northern east coast, for instance). It’s all about the region of the country you’re in that’s showing drops. I’ve actually only had 2 meth arrests in my career. Most of what I see is crack, powder cocaine, heroin, and weed. Occasionally we get ecstasy/LSD. I’m not quite sure it is safe to say that the majority of meth is made in Mexico. Mexico’s main drug market is in cocaine. States like Kentucky and Tennessee (No offense to people who live there, I’m just tossing some examples out) have many incidents where residents are found cooking meth in their garage or kitchen. The 2 lockups that I’ve gotten for meth were coming from Tennessee. I would say that meth’s availability hasn’t really dropped at all because of Mexico’s “war on drugs.”
As the user above me stated, a lot of Mexican soldiers ‘moonlight’ as bodyguards for Cartel shipments. They’re just hitting smaller shipments and rival shipments for show and to try to show other nations that they’re doing their part in the “War on Drugs.”
Not In Toledo Ohio. This continues to always be a problem and most likely always will. Cocaine is another one.
Drug wars are just hyped up government policies that generally have little impact on the actual drug trade. Every so often a government agency decides to do something about drugs, usually because of years of inaction.
Recently, the term “drug war” has gained popularity probably for impact which would enable government agencies to gather funding more easily.
But the problem is that illegal drugs is a trade and not a foreign or local body politic attempting to undermine your freedoms. So you can’t “go to war” on drugs by mobilizing military-like units to seek out and destroy enemy “drug” targets. That kind of action may temporarily disrupt the illegal trade of drugs but that’s all it’s going to do.
Illegal drugs are desirable commodities. They are desirable to sell for profit because most cost so little to make and they are desirable to buy for pleasure because you typically don’t have to buy much for effect.
So, yes, the Mexico Drug War will likely have an impact on Meth in the USA. It will be limited and short lived as the world financial crisis will constrain funds needed to maintain such initiatives. Meanwhile, other sources of Meth will develop…