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US CA: PUB LTE: Cripple Cartels

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n782/a02.html
Newshawk: Kirk
Pubdate: Sun, 26 Sep 2010
Source: Contra Costa Times (CA)
Copyright: 2010 Joel Olney
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Website: http://www.contracostatimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/96
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n746/a09.html
Author: Joel Olney

CRIPPLE CARTELS

Legalize marijuana.  The 40-year war on drugs has been a dismal failure and worse.  In 1972, the war on drugs was raging in towns around Mexico City with no result except to enrich the drug cartels and kill innocent and not so innocent folks.

The war on drugs has caused the crime that surrounds illegal products like marijuana.  Eighty percent of the cartel income comes from marijuana sales to the United States.

It is the demand and use for drugs in the United States that

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