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LetTimmySmoke

(1,202 posts)
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 02:25 AM Mar 2012

Marijuana Legalization Debate Arrives: From Latin American Presidents to Costco Magazine!

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.

More - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/marijuana-legalization-de_b_1321812.html

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Marijuana Legalization Debate Arrives: From Latin American Presidents to Costco Magazine! (Original Post) LetTimmySmoke Mar 2012 OP
Legalize It, Regulate It, Tax It. Warren DeMontague Mar 2012 #1
k&r n/t RainDog Mar 2012 #2
The corporate prison industry will NEVER allow the legalization of marijuana quispquake Mar 2012 #3

quispquake

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3. The corporate prison industry will NEVER allow the legalization of marijuana
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 09:31 AM
Mar 2012

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...

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