[mgist]

Forward this to all your Libertarian friends who naively thought drug legalization was about personal liberties and not government corruption. The cartels wont tolerate competition.

The cartels wont tolerate competition. The cartels fillwall Street banks with cash, and political coffers are lined. Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Arab Spring, Afghanistans record opiate production protected by US troops, Egypt, Syria, the "drug legalization" hoax are all about the Federal Government supporting the $Multi BILLION drug cartels.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

JP Morgan openly launders money in cities such as Caracas, Venezuela. Chavez turned that nation into one of the biggest drug distributors of the world. The people have no toilet paper, but they have plenty of cocaine.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/21/jp-morgans-venezuelan-cronyism-reaches-a-boiling-point/?onswipe_redirect=no

Maybe they should consider why the DEA has been caught laundering money as well, "Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations." How convenient?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&

Why is the entire US Justice Department is complicit with the cartels? One example reported here: CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel MICHAEL KELLEY JAN. 13, 2014,

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl

“The evidence seems to indicate that the Justice Department not only allowed criminals to smuggle weapons, but that tax payers’ dollars in the form of informant payments, may have financed those engaging in such activities,” the pleading added.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fast-and-furious-linked-immunity-deal-between-us-and-sinaloa-cartel-trafficking

Sinaloa cartel is the same murderous drug cartel that Holder's ATF curiously gave an arsenal of weapons to in the Fast and Furious scandal.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/the_fast_and_furious_red_herring.html

[umgud]

If you like your pot farm, you can keep it.

[S.O.S121.500]

Jury Nullification ?

[Scrambler Bob]

Loaded in the same room as pot.

Got to keep that pot from getting out of the pot.

Or keep the guns high.

[leapfrog0202]

Kind of odd that everyone in that family has a medical marijuana use permit. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a husband, wife, wife’s son & his wife all having permits. Strange.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Live by the Calvinball, die by the Calvinball.

[RIghtwardHo]

I know this site doesn’t really like cursing, so I won’t, but I’ll let you imagine what I want to tell ODimwit to do to himself.

THIS is corruption.

[Sasparilla]

As usual, the White House is behaving in a Jekyll and Hyde manner on policy. The occupier can’t make up his mind.

[nathanbedford]

If you want to know why the war on drugs is lost start thinking about it the way Adam Smith and Warren Buffett would think about it.

Adam Smith would talk about the law of supply and demand and he tells us that when the demand goes up so does the price; when supply goes down, the price goes up. When the demand is inelastic, that is, when it is the product of an addiction, the price curve is even more radical in its upward thrust when supply is reduced. Therefore, the more the government succeeds in interdicting the supply of addictive drugs, the more it increases the price and thereby increases the incentive to increase supply. The more the government succeeds, the more it must fail.

That is why drug smugglers and dealers are so wonderfully inventive in evading the law and will ever continue to be so unless you want to live in North Korea.

Without putting words in Warren Buffett's mouth, his criteria for investing in an enterprise are well-known. He wants a company with a unique product and a huge market potential. What better than an addictive drug? He wants company with high barriers to entry against competition. What better barrier than the law and what better barriers than drug enforcement agencies raiding your competition? And if competition becomes too serious, this business model says you simply eliminate it by murdering them.

Buffett would be very intrigued by the idea that costs are extremely low, markup extremely high, and the price is ever supported by the government! By making drugs illegal, the government in effect has enacted price supports. By selling into an inelastic demand of addicts, the market as well as price are virtually guaranteed.

Because the price is high, addicts are incentivized to push the drugs onto others in order to addict them, to create a mini market which funds their own addiction. What a wonderful business model! On the macro level it is a multilevel marketing scheme on steroids, or should I say, powered by addiction, and supported by the government.

Meanwhile, this wonderful marketing scheme generates so much money that corruption is inevitable. Worse, our enemies in the Muslim world and elsewhere have exploited this market to our disadvantage and national security peril. Meanwhile, our only politically correct response is a full throated roar: "do more of the same."

All of this you lay at the feet of libertarians.

Hello?

[Yo-Yo]

If the pot was grown, possessed, and used all within Washington State, then were is the Federal jurisdiction?

[Georgia Girl 2]

The government does not tolerate competition. Pot and guns they call fortressing and nail you for a longer prison sentence.