Posted on 12/17/2021 8:48:35 AM PST by fishtank
Think Legal Weed Cut Down On Crime? Think Again
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Dec 16, 2021
If you thought legalizing weed would cut down on crime, think again. t did cut down on crime in a way—pot smokers were no longer being prosecuted for smoking, and some growers did come out of the shadows. But it also brought in the drug cartels who could hide their illegal growing operations amidst the tons of legal ones that sprang up. Watch this episode of America Uncovered for how the cartels are moving in where marijuana is legalized, the use of narco-slaves to grow the illegal weed, and how it's wreaking havoc on the environment.
“I have lost too many friends to Drugs—everyone started with weed and turned up dead or a brain dead hulk of a person.”
Many of them probably started with the drug alcohol - do you support criminalizing that drug? I don’t.
And any progression from pot to harder drugs has been made easier by both being illegal and thus sold in the same channels; legalization of pot could weaken that link.
“IF we wanted to we could make a serious dent in this mess. IF we wanted to.”
If we wanted to become a police state; American conservatives don’t want that - YMMV.
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