MEXICO — The entire police force of a rural town called Los Ramones quit this week after gunmen destroyed their newly established police station. The town is located just a couple hours south of the U.S./Mexico border, but violent drug cartels control the whole area.

Over 1,000 bullets and six grenades were used in the attack. The concrete station was peppered with bullet holes and every vehicle parked in front was destroyed. No officers were killed during the firestorm, but all 14 of them resigned the next day.

Los Ramones is located in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. The area is being feuded over by two of Mexico’s meanest drug gangs, and the police are helplessly caught in the middle. Last week, police in a nearby town were also attacked with grenades.

Drugs, violence, and Mexico go together like Paris Hilton, dicks, and more dicks. The day before the assault on the Los Ramones station, in the nearby state of Coahuila, several gunmen stormed a private party and open fired on everyone. There were 17 confirmed deaths and 18 others were wounded — some women and kids. Police have no suspects.

These stories are bad, but many other similar incidents have happened in Mexico this year. The city of Chihuahua sounded liked a fun place to visit until I heard that gunmen raided a drug-rehab center there and killed 19 people for no good reason.

Just south of El Paso, Texas is Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. It used to be known as El Paso’s Mexican half-sister town, but now it’s known as “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones.” But technically, it is a war zone because of the drug war.

It doesn’t have to be this way though. You see, rather than dealing with the policies that allowed for the rise of violent drug cartels, the government continuously picks at the scab by arresting an endless army of traffickers and occasionally intercepting a load of drugs.

Prohibition simply does not work, but nobody seems to realize that. Until we all do, it would be best to avoid Mexico unless you’re going to a heavy tourist area like Cancun, or just skipping over the border to Tijuana for a quick donkey show.

Sounds like people in Mexico need to smoke more of that shitty weed they grow.

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