Why would people buy mj from the Mexican cartels in a legal, well-regulated market?
John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the "bread and butter," "the center of gravity" for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html
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Let me ask you this. Is it your position that the cartels would or would not lose most of their funding if mj were regulated like alcohol?
“Let me ask you this. Is it your position that the cartels would or would not lose most of their funding if mj were regulated like alcohol?”
At this point in this mess, legalize it. The only chance we have in any of it is to cut off the funding of the criminals. (Same can be said about congress, administration....:<)