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Originally Posted by Nosauz
Decriminalize drugs, create ways for addicts to get their fix without creating the elicit market forces that make drug running so lucrative, when you bring in crack and cocaine into the US you see a 650% jump in profits, it's clearly the illegality of these substances and much like opiates that we already control for medical procedures these substances could easily be "legalized" destroying a lot of value of smuggling, etc. You can point to prescription pill mills and gangsters selling pain meds, but that trade in itself is much less dangerous. In the end, it's going to take more than arming the citizenry or militarizing the border.
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Several counties in California that grow marijuana basically out in the open voted against the legalizing marijuana prop last year. the reasoning was the growers were afraid legalizing marijuana would bring down the price for their crop.
i wouldn't be surprise if the biggest supporter of the current laws keeping marijuana illegal are the drug lords in Mexico.