The cartels make more than $10 billion a year selling marijuana in the U.S. - this supplies them with the bulk of the money they need to arm themselves and pay their hit men. While this massive mountain of marijuana money sits on the border there will *always* be people willing to do whatever is necessary to make as much of that money as possible their own. The *only* solution is to eliminate this money and the *only* way to do that is by allowing our supermarkets to legally sell marijuana to adults at prices too low for drug dealers and the cartels to match.
We have to face facts. Either we as a country have the ability to eliminate marijuana use in the U.S. or we as a country must provide safe and legal access to the stuff through distributors we can trust - and who better to do this than our supermarkets who we already trust with alcohol and tobacco? Our supermarkets have proven that they're reputable companies, they know how to card their customers, and they have the ability and the will to price these products at a level too low for illegal suppliers to match. Supermarkets are the ideal way to drive drug dealers off our streets and bankrupt the murderous and sadistic cartels. The status quo of massive, unrelenting demand combined with zero legal supply is simply NOT an option!
We may not ever wish to purchase beer, tobacco or marijuana ourselves but for the sake of our safety and our children’s safety we should *always* insist on these products being legal for supermarkets to sell to adults.
7,000 people were murdered by the Mexican drug cartels last year because we in the US kept marijuana illegal, many of the victims were children, police officers and politicians. This year the cartels are on track to kill at least 9,000 more. Who supports keeping it illegal?
Madness!! The only people celebrating this law are drug dealers who now have a new product to sell, and law enforcement who now have a new reason for apprehending and searching young people.
You know someone has made a BIG mistake when illegal drug dealers and law enforcement agree on something!!
Here's a better plan. Get the drugs out of the hands of drug dealers by legalizing their sale to adults. Use by minors will decrease dramatically, drug dealers will disappear, and law enforcement costs will reduce substantially. Wait a year, this decision will bite us in the butt!
Let Mexico fight drug war
The cartels make more than $10 billion a year selling marijuana in the U.S. - this supplies them with the bulk of the money they need to arm themselves and pay their hit men. While this massive mountain of marijuana money sits on the border there will *always* be people willing to do whatever is necessary to make as much of that money as possible their own. The *only* solution is to eliminate this money and the *only* way to do that is by allowing our supermarkets to legally sell marijuana to adults at prices too low for drug dealers and the cartels to match.
We have to face facts. Either we as a country have the ability to eliminate marijuana use in the U.S. or we as a country must provide safe and legal access to the stuff through distributors we can trust - and who better to do this than our supermarkets who we already trust with alcohol and tobacco? Our supermarkets have proven that they're reputable companies, they know how to card their customers, and they have the ability and the will to price these products at a level too low for illegal suppliers to match. Supermarkets are the ideal way to drive drug dealers off our streets and bankrupt the murderous and sadistic cartels. The status quo of massive, unrelenting demand combined with zero legal supply is simply NOT an option!
We may not ever wish to purchase beer, tobacco or marijuana ourselves but for the sake of our safety and our children’s safety we should *always* insist on these products being legal for supermarkets to sell to adults.
August 24, 2011 at 4:35 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Drug cartels are on the move
7,000 people were murdered by the Mexican drug cartels last year because we in the US kept marijuana illegal, many of the victims were children, police officers and politicians. This year the cartels are on track to kill at least 9,000 more. Who supports keeping it illegal?
March 10, 2010 at 1:24 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Formerly legal drug now illegal in Ohio
Madness!! The only people celebrating this law are drug dealers who now have a new product to sell, and law enforcement who now have a new reason for apprehending and searching young people.
You know someone has made a BIG mistake when illegal drug dealers and law enforcement agree on something!!
Here's a better plan. Get the drugs out of the hands of drug dealers by legalizing their sale to adults. Use by minors will decrease dramatically, drug dealers will disappear, and law enforcement costs will reduce substantially. Wait a year, this decision will bite us in the butt!
December 17, 2008 at 4:52 p.m. permalink suggest removal