Mexican drug cartels are being financed due to illegality of marijuana in the States. Time to end prohibition?

In a sense I agree. I don't use drugs, but for those that do, it's their business, and if they want to kill themselves, let them, as long as they don't go out and hurt someone else in the process. My main peeve isn't the prohibition of more violent drugs, such as heroin and cocaine, but the banning of marijuana, and no, I don't smoke.

Marijuana, no matter what the government says, isn't a violent drug. If anything, some people could stand to be on it, because it makes you calmer. They say that being on marijuana makes you crazy and violent.

No it doesn't. Not unless some drug dealer you have to deal with because the government won't legalize it and sell it laced it with something. When you smoke marijuana, the side effects are hungry, happy, sleepy.

I have not heard of anyone that has robbed a bank while on just weed. It doesn't impair your judgment like other drugs do, to the point where you don't know right from wrong. For instance, I saw a commercial that said weed made someone shoot their sibling because they didn't realize it was a gun.

Come on, really? You still know what a gun is. It doesn't make you that kind of high.

In my opinion, stoned drivers are safer than drunk drivers, and alcohol is perfectly legal. Drunk drivers tend to speed and swerve, while stoned drivers drive slowly. Very slowly.

It is annoying, but would you rather hit someone head on that's doing 20 or 110 mph? Now that i've cited reasons, I do agree that at least in the case of weed the ban on drugs has created at least part of the problem. They want it banned simply because they can't tax it.

Well, legalize it, grow it, and sell it like tobacco and get off everyone's backs and then a good bit of the mexican cartels, upon losing their income, may stop trying to come here. Since it's illegal they bring it here to sell. It's not coming out of thin air.

That may stop some of the national drug violence too, because they won't be dealing with each other, and won't be hiding the fact that they are high. People won't have to deal with dishonest drug dealers and get something other than weed when they buy it. And best of all, if it's sold and taxed that's more money in the economy.

The U.S.'s position on drugs creates drug cartels the same way alcohol prohibition created beer barons. Take away the illegality and you take away the criminal enterprises. No need to smuggle in the goods, no need to murder for control of drug lands, no need to murder for control of trade routes, and no need murder to maintain control of the marketplace.

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