On the upside, the cartels are getting out of the marijuana business because they can’t compete.
Right, and harder drug use may go down also.
It seems they can compete as many buyers are still preferring the illegal product. The legal product producers have higher tax liabilities.
If it is going to be legal then individuals should be able to grow their own and not have to go through a state licensed facility.
There never was an MJ cartel in the first place. If you ever bought dope, it’s mostly single “proprietors” who cultivate it themselves and sell to select buyers by word of mouth. They’ve got their own hydroponic systems in their basement to avoid the cops but the electrical output is a giveaway and the exhaust plus the smell of it....um, not that I am experienced in this but I read it somewhere (cough)
And the JBTs at the DEA are working less these days, too.
Not quite. All they did was reverse the flow in the drug pipeline.
"A lot of the marijuana the cartels are smuggling into Mexico is coming out of Colorado, Payne told U.S. News."
http://www.businessinsider.com/dea-cartels-are-now-smuggling-us-weed-into-mexico-to-sell-2014-12#ixzz3P08qMiPl
America is on it's way to becoming a marijuana provider to other countries. The Great Satan in action.
Now they smuggle cigarettes.