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Re: Drug Cartels are hurtin.



On 8/23/2014 4:27 PM, Shoe-Chucker 2 wrote:
>
> How to beat the "Drug Cartels"
>
>
> https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-ca
> rtels
>
> Marijuana has accounted for nearly half of all total drug arrests in the
> US for the past 20 years, according to the FBI¹s crime statistics. And
> according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), a large portion of the US
> illegal drug market is controlled directly by Mexican cartels. The DOJ¹s
> National Drug Intelligence Center, which has since been shut down, found
> in 2011 that the top cartels controlled the majority of drug trade in
> marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine in over 1,000 US cities.
>
> Now, those cartels and their farmers complain that marijuana
> legalization is hurting their business. And some reports could suggest
> that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is more interested in helping to
> protect the Mexican cartels¹ hold on the pot trade than in letting it
> dissipate.
>
> Kentucky wants to grow hemp so badly, it¹s suing the federal government.
>



Originally posted by Shoe-Chucker 2 on 08-23-2014 on alt.activism group.

Cross posting for the record.


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