Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels

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Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels
https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels

May 8, 2014

Marijuana has accounted for nearly half of all total drug arrests in the US for the past 20 years, according to the FBI’s crime statistics. And according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), a large portion of the US illegal drug market is controlled directly by Mexican cartels. The DOJ’s National Drug Intelligence Center, which has since been shut down, found in 2011 that the top cartels controlled the majority of drug trade in marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine in over 1,000 US cities.


Now, those cartels and their farmers complain that marijuana legalization is hurting their business. And some reports could suggest that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is more interested in helping to protect the Mexican cartels’ hold on the pot trade than in letting it dissipate.

Time to legalize federally and nation wide ;0)

 

[ScienceRocks]

Legalize now, so we can kill the cartels!!!

 

[KNB]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngc0_mQ5tjE]Hemp For Victory (1942) U.S. Department of Agriculture - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Politico]

Good.