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Marijuana Dispensaries in L.A. Magnets For Robbers, Violence, Organized Crime — Report
Only weeks after RAND took a controversial study of marijuana dispensary crime off the shelf following questions about its validity, a Fox 11 News report gives at least anecdotal evidence that some pot shops are dangerous places (especially for people …
Colombia’s President: Marijuana Should Be Legalized Globally
Posted by admin in World News on October 26, 2011
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said this week that legalization of marijuana would allow the war on drugs to move forward by shifting focus to harder drugs and helping to stop the international violence associated with drug trafficking.www.tok…
Marijuana Is Safer — So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?
“Alcohol causes nearly four percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence.” That was the finding promoted earlier this year of the World Health Organization.blogs.alternet.org
More violence during North California pot raids.
Posted by admin in Political News on August 24, 2010
Authorities are trying to determine what’s causing an increase in violence that has left five suspects dead during raids of marijuana gardens across Northern California during the past several weeks. www.mercurynews.com
Increased Violence at Pot Grow Busts Puzzles Cops | NBC Bay
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 23, 2010
Cops are treating marijuana eradication efforts like SWAT operations. Why does this have to happen?www.nbcbayarea.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…
Medi Marijuana Opposition Resorts to Violence in Montana
Posted by admin in World News on May 29, 2010
The vandals struck in the middle of the night, hurling Molotov cocktails through the windows of two medical marijuana businesses and spray-painting “NOT IN OUR TOWN” just before the Billings City Council was supposed to take up a ban on any new pot shops. “They are creating ordinances and moratoriums that are blatantly against the law,” ……
Why marijuana prohibition is threatening national security.
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on May 27, 2010
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was a guest on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, discussing the move by the Obama Administration to send 1,200 National Guard troops to Arizona to help the Border Patrol secure the U.S-Mexico border and stop the violence. In reality, it could be diffused rapidly if marijuana prohibition was lifted.
Mick Jagger Calls For Marijuana Legalization
Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger has called for U.K. government officials to legalize marijuana and other drugs on a British island, to see if it prevents violence associated with the illegal drug trade.
The rock singer, who was convicted of marijuana possession in the 1960s…
FBI: “Marijuana Is the Top Revenue Generator for Mexican Car
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on May 6, 2010
In Congressional testimony today, two FBI officials said that “marijuana is the top revenue generator for Mexican DTOs [cartels]“, calling it “a cash crop that finances corruption and the carnage of violence year after year. “Of course, nowhere does the FBI make the obvious connection that if you want to stop the cartels from fi
The War On Drugs Has Failed, So Tax And Regulate Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on April 21, 2010
We learned a valuable lesson with alcohol prohibition in this country. Prohibition created black markets and violence as gangs fought to control the market. The same thing is true today.
Only one way to decrease border violence: legalize drugs
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on April 15, 2010
Mexican drug cartels derive their power solely from the profits of their trade, and somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of those profits are generated by marijuana. The best way—indeed, the only way, as history shows—to diminish the immense profits that fuel the corruption and violence is to eliminate their market share by legalizing the drugs.
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
Former Mexican official urges legalizing marijuana – CNN.com
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on February 3, 2010
The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.
California Sheriff: Part of me wants marijuana legalized,
Posted by admin in Political News on December 3, 2009
“Part of me wants marijuana legalized,” he says, “’cause it would take away the wealth and the greed and the violence.”
Marijuana Prohibition 1938-1944 New York
Posted by admin in World News on October 31, 2009
After the 1938-1944 New York City “LaGuardia Marijuana Report” refuted his argument, by reporting that marijuana caused no violence at all and citing other positive results, Harry J. Anslinger, in public tirade after tirade, denounced Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the New York Academy of Medicine and the doctors who researched the report.
Should Marijuana Be Legalized – I Say Yes
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on October 25, 2009
With violence growing in the war against drugs, so too are the number of people going to jail leading to overpopulated prisons. Is it time to re-evaluate laws governing drugs? Is it time to make marijuana legal? While they say the drug trade brings in billions per year, I believe the trade brings in trillions. Could this deplete federal deficits?
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.
More Latin American Countries Legalizing Drugs – ABC News
Posted by admin in Political News on September 27, 2009
“The ‘war on drugs’ has failed, some Latin American leaders say. But legalization of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, and other narcotics may not curb violence”. That’s what the ABC article states but I think that most Americans know that legalizing Weed would have a Tremendous impact on the cartels.
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