How does Phillip Morris make enormous money selling tobacco?
Don’t be naive. The Cartel Drug Lords are mafia that control politicians, banks, hotels, resorts, casinos. They are not going to be stopped by silly people that think that legalization will solve all problems, far from it.
Pot and other drugs will be regulated and only those licensed to distribute will be allowed to sell it. The Cartels will kill their way to securing the distribution rights just as they do now in Mexico and also in the USA.
They also control prostitution, murder for hire, loan sharking and extortion.
You are playing with fire if you think legalization will make them go away.
Legalization will reduce their risks, secure their profits and allow them to gain revenue streams from addicting more and more users.
Again don’t be naive.
Medical marijuana programs are not run by the cartels, so why would regulating marijuana like alcohol be any different?
Answer me this. Do you support the authority of states under the Tenth Amendment to conduct medical marijuana programs without fedgov interference, or do you support fedgov's use of the expansive Commerce Clause to shut them down?
Nonsense. If the level of corruption and violence associated with illegal drugs were reduced to that associated with alcohol or tobacco, the War on Some Drugs would be over.
Sales of cigarettes and alcohol don't jeopardize my rights or justify the swat teams now to be found in practically every community.