I write this letter on behalf of the traditional drug cartels operating within our state.

These lucrative businesses now face the threat of a well-regulated and taxed government program that would restrict sales of marijuana in the same way America restricts the sale of alcohol.

Organized crime lost trillions of dollars since the repeal of alcohol prohibition in the 1930s. Cartels don't want to suffer the same fate.

These cartels, now representing our great state, wish to applaud and support the efforts of Attorney General Mark Brnovich and county attorneys Sheila Polk and Bill Montgomery in their crusade to "educate" the people of Arizona, and to decide for Arizona citizens that marijuana sales need to stay in the hands of the cartels that have faithfully served Arizona for decades.

- - Robert Fern, Show Low

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