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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:43 PM Mar 2016

Legal marijuana causes Mexican drug cartel revenues to plummet

http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2016/03/07/legal-marijuana-causes-mexican-drug-cartel-revenues-to-plummet/

Marijuana legalization may have accomplished what the War on Drugs has failed to do — put the squeeze on Mexican drug cartel activity.

The U.S. Border Patrol has released 2015 data showing that the number of marijuana seizures throughout the southwest U.S./Mexico border has fallen to the lowest level in a decade, the Washington Post reports.

Mexican manufacturers of illegal marijuana bricks have driven down prices as residents in California, Colorado, and Washington state now have safe access to reasonably affordable medical marijuana and/or recreational cannabis.

“Two or three years ago, a kilogram [2.2 pounds] of marijuana was worth $60 to $90,” a Mexican marijuana grower told NPR news in December 2014. “But now they’re paying us $30 to $40 a kilo. It’s a big difference. If the U.S. continues to legalize pot, they’ll run us into the ground.”


I hate to say "I told you so", but... oh, screw it, dude. Just pass the doob!
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Legal marijuana causes Mexican drug cartel revenues to plummet (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
Hell yes! Tax revenue for the States! Fine, legal weed! Raster Mar 2016 #1
THIS is how to TOTALLY win the War on Drugs. Legalize them. 99th_Monkey Mar 2016 #2
Ya, the problem with the war on drugs and the war on(of?) terror Hydra Mar 2016 #5
Duh. All the violence, deaths for a war on what? Person 2713 Mar 2016 #3
k & r & thanks! n/t wildbilln864 Mar 2016 #4

Raster

(20,996 posts)
1. Hell yes! Tax revenue for the States! Fine, legal weed!
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:46 PM
Mar 2016

And taking the bite out of the cartels! Win! Win! Win!

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
2. THIS is how to TOTALLY win the War on Drugs. Legalize them.
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:59 PM
Mar 2016

Especially pot, but all drugs really. The jury is in on this: legalization
reduces drug abuse, is way cheaper than criminalization, and avoids
creating more criminals with stupid drug laws .. addicts need help with
their addiction, not to be jailed, stigmatized & saddled with a criminal
record.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
5. Ya, the problem with the war on drugs and the war on(of?) terror
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 09:14 PM
Mar 2016

Was that they were never meant to be won- without the looming threat of X, where would all the money and power allocated to fight it go? Maybe someplace nice?

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