Posts Tagged drug cartels
Sign the Petition to President Obama: End the War on Marijua
Posted by admin in Political News on August 10, 2010
Last week, Mexico’s President Calderone called on President Obama to join the debate on legalizing marijuana. The US drug policy has lined the pockets of the drug cartels with billions of dollars, and they are threatening to destabilize not only Mexico…
Just Say Now: End the War on Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 5, 2010
petition to President Obama:
The war on marijuana is a failure. The government wastes billions of dollars fighting drug cartels that thrive on marijuana prohibition. Thousands of people are killed, police officers lives are put in risk, and taxpay…
Marijuana growers worry about "Wal-Marting" of weed
After weathering the fear of federal prosecution and competition from drug cartels, California’s medical marijuana growers see a new threat to their tenuous existence: the “Wal-Marting” of weed. news.yahoo.com
How Legalized Pot Could Hurt Mexico’s Cartels
Posted by admin in World News on July 18, 2010
So far, no modern country has ever legalized marijuana production—not even the Netherlands. Yet with heavy drug-related violence plaguing the U.S.-Mexican border, some analysts and policymakers now say that America should legalize weed in order to re…
Willie Nelson Has A Point On Pot
While he’s definitely not an advocate for the use of hard drugs, Willie Nelson is a big supporter of marijuana. He shares with Parade magazine, “Legalize weed. It’s 50% of what’s causing the problems along the border with the drug cartels. A lo…
Our ‘war on drugs’ causes more harm than good
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on March 13, 2010
As a former Seattle police chief, I saw how the prohibition of marijuana and other drugs does nothing to stop substance abuse.
Rather, it fuels the vast and violent drug cartels and street gangs that control the obscenely profitable illegal market. Prohibition guarantees high rates of property crimes, public corruption, disease, violence and death
Mexican army burns massive pot field, drug lord killed
Posted by admin in World News on December 18, 2009
GlobalPost had a rare opportunity to join the 94th battallion of the Mexican army to see its work fighting the drug cartels. Watch as the army locates a marijuana field in the Sierra Madre mountains and sets up impromtu checkpoints during an urban operation.
US marijuana cuts into traffickers’ profits
Posted by admin in World News on October 12, 2009
The shifting economics of the marijuana trade have broad implications for Mexico’s war against the drug cartels, suggesting that market forces, as much as law enforcement, can extract a heavy price from criminal organizations that have used the spectacular profits generated by pot sales to fuel the violence and corruption that plague Mexico.
Marijuana: California is the first state to legalize Marijua
Posted by admin in Arts & Culture on October 8, 2009
Marijuana, good or bad to legalize it? Marijuana legalization in California is just 3 to 5 years away from being a reality. The United States government don’t want it and the drug cartels certainly don’t want marijuana to be legal.
Mexican Pot Growers Elude Border Security: Plant It Here
Posted by admin in Political News on September 28, 2009
Mexico’s drug cartels are leapfrogging tightened border security and establishing sophisticated marijuana-growing operations in North Texas and Oklahoma, law enforcement officials say. The traffickers’ farming operations, known as “grows,” have been an increasing problem on public lands in California and other Western states for some time.
War on Drugs conference: Legalize marijuana…
Posted by admin in Political News on September 24, 2009
EL PASO — Legalizing marijuana in the United States would weaken Mexico’s powerful drug cartels, panelists at a War on Drugs conference said Tuesday.
“If you take away half of their money, it will hurt them,” said William Martin…
yes390
Posted by admin in Political News on August 7, 2009
California Assembly Bill 390 would legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana in California for adult recreational use. AB 390 was introduced by Tom Ammiano in February. This bill would reduce funding to drug cartels, reduce crime, increase jobs, contribute $1.4 billion in new tax revenues to California, and let farmers grow industrial hemp.
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