As for Mexicans growing pot in the U.S., I think that is, indeed, a problem, and I oppose the domestic production of pot by foreigners. I think this problem is just a subset of a larger problem: Illegal aliens roming free across the land. However, if my platform was adopted, the problem would melt away very quickly. I propose shooting noncitizen drug dealers/producers after a speedy trial. All of them. In public.
As for your comment "Oh, Mexican dope is horrible! Nobody would want to smoke that!", I think the answer is simple supply and demand. If another product was available, consumers would buy it. I live in a border state, and my city is awash in Mexican pot. It is what is commonly available. If there was better/other, folks would buy it.
Believe me when I say the thought of supporting drug lords sickens me.
Regarding my lengthy treatise on pot, it was simply an attempt to educate and inform about the different strains available, and their associated traits, traits that hint at their origin. I did not reference "problems on the border" or "Mexican drug gangs trying to smuggle their dope north!", but rather the dynamic of Mexican pot and the reason it is a totally different animal than domestic pot.
With the increase in domestically-grown-by-Mexicans pot, these rules become less of an absolute, but are still a good guide.
Actually, I have a solutuion to the problems on the border, but it involves drastic measures which are too severe for most Americans; it involves guns and minefields, and maybe even sharks with frickien lasers on their heads.
You might agree with this comment: I think the problem is not pot per se, but rather the fact that it supports foreign criminals and narcoterrorists. If we could eliminate them from the loop, most of your (and my) moral qualms may subside a tad.
You call me a pothead, and perhaps that is an accurate descriptor, but I am absolute in my belief that pot should be kept away from children, and not glamourized in the media. It is, indeed, a vice. But then again, all of that also applies to Guinness beer, another vice of mine.
Also, I grew up in San Francisco and have seen firsthand how pot eases the suffering of people who are gonna die soon anyway. I am not a big fan of the gays, but I think it is abhorrent to deny an AIDS sufferer a method of increasing appetite and reducing nausea. (a method that cost pennies compared to the pharmacueticals pushed by Big Pharma). The same goes for the (more numerous) cancer victims. My mother's suffering could have been greatly mitigated by pot, but she would not use it because she was a big Law and Order person. I watched her whither away; she was destined to die anyway, as the cancer had spread to her brain and was inoperable, but who is to say that her final weeks could have been just little less painful?
Answer: you, and the government.