http://www.newsoxy.com/politics/marijuana-legalization-2012-95885.html
umm about 14 years too late for me. +_o) umm buds!
Marijuana in many states voted on legalization for the 2012 election, a decision by voters in Colorado and Washington, which has “changed the rules of the game” for the administration of Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto in the U.S.-backed drug war.
“Obviously, we can’t handle a product that is illegal in Mexico, trying to stop its transfer to the United States, when in the United States, at least in part of the United States, it now has a different status,” Nieto’s top adviser, Luis Videgaray, told a radio station Wednesday.However, experts and studies note that legalization in two U.S. states — even if the federal government allows it — probably won’t put Mexico’s drug cartels out of business.
aw the blame game game they can handle the illegal weed but we changed the game, sounds to me like this might have been a better move the some perceived.
"Obviously, we can't handle a product that is illegal in Mexico, trying to stop its transfer to the United States, when in the United States, at least in part of the United States, it now has a different status," Nieto's top adviser, Luis Videgaray, told a radio station Wednesday.
However, experts and studies note that legalization in two U.S. states — even if the federal government allows it — probably won't put Mexico's drug cartels out of business.
In the lead-up to the referenda in Mexico and Colorado, the Mexican Competitiveness Institute released a study estimating that Mexico's cartels would lose $1.425 billion if the initiative passed in Colorado and $1.372 billion if Washington voted to legalize.
The organization also predicted that drug trafficking revenues would fall 20 to 30 percent, and the Sinaloa cartel, which would be the most affected, would lose up to 50 percent.
But that's a much more severe impact than the one predicted by the Rand Corp., which previously found that cartels would barely feel the pinch from legalization initiatives .
A 2010 Rand Corp. study estimated that legal marijuana use in California, a state that consumes about one-seventh of all the pot smoked in the United States, would cost the cartels 2 to 4 percent of their revenue. So losing consumers in states such as Washington and Colorado that have a smaller population might not affect the cartel bottom line by much.
that was a 3 year ago study surely the profit lines are much different. cartels are people too, sorry businesses that 2 to 4 percent bottom line is a loss greed will not allow that it very well could put us into a turf war with cartels, creating more money making situations for private sector, feeling that hmmmmmm yet? just sayin'
