Legalizing Marijuana Could Destroy Mexican Drug Cartels
Linda Valdez wrote this piece for the Arizona Republic. Her argument makes sense to me. Is America ready?
Imagine you had a really smart bomb – a genius bomb – that could blow up the leaders of every drug cartel in Mexico.
By the time the smoke cleared, a new pusher would be sitting in every cartel’s big chair and the distribution networks would continue satisfying the demand of every junkie and recreational-drug user in America.
Mexico’s drug cartels would continue to be, in the words of the Justice Department’s National Drug Threat Assessment for 2009, “the greatest drug-trafficking threat to the United States.”
Now, imagine a different weapon.
Consider the impact of eliminating the most profitable product the cartels sell.
All we have to do is legalize marijuana.
“Marijuana is the (Mexican cartels’) cash crop, the cash cow,” says Brittany Brown of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Washington office, which does not advocate legalizing pot.
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