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The debate around marijuana legalization has arrived. The issue is popping in ways that haven't been seen in decades -- if ever. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Mexico yesterday and later will travel to Honduras in the midst of rapidly-escalating demands by Latin American presidents that legalization be included among the options for reducing drug-related violence, crime and mayhem.
The Associated Press published an impressive story over the weekend about the transformation happening in Latin America. "Presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico, all grappling with the extremely violent fallout of a failing drug war, have said in recent weeks they'd like to open up the discussion of legalizing drugs," the article stated.
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Then, shit, let Costco sell it too.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)quispquake
(3,050 posts)They don't make money unless the jails are full...Hard crime (minus white collar crime which doesn't count of course as NOONE goes to jail for that) is going down, so to keep the jails full, Marijuana must remain a scapegoat...