Community | October 11, 2009 | 28 comments

Homegrown Pot Threatens Mexican Cartels

source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/07/politics/washingtonpost/main5368594.shtml

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Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.

Illicit pot production in the United States has been increasing steadily for decades. But recent changes in state laws that allow the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes are giving U.S. growers a competitive advantage, challenging the traditional dominance of the Mexican traffickers, who once made brands such as Acapulco Gold the standard for quality.
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28 comments // Homegrown Pot Threatens Mexican Cartels

  • biggranny
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      biggranny  

    • so when do you think American politicians are gonna get on board?ugh never. just grow a set of gold ones and legalize it.jobs,jobs,jobs.bet you won't have any problem getting white people to harvest this crop

    • 2 years ago
  • dudefromtherock
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • We could create millions of new jobs in the United States just by legalizing Mary Jane. Its time we do this, our people are starving and on the verge of loosing their homes. There are people who have been out of work for three years and more.

      Legalizing all forms of Cannabis, Marijuana and Hemp will have an extremely posiitve impact on our local economies that far out step any negative impacts.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
  • RFIDemocracy
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • Acapulco Gold is such an old term. I was 15 when I first heard that....along with Panama Red, Chocolate Orange Thai Stick, Opionated Thai Stick, Jamaican Indica.

      The names have changed so much over the past 35 years. Now we have so many interesting names like Northern Lights, Queen, Ramrod, G20, Nimrod, Purple Kush, and so on.

      The stuff being produced by home growers has jumped in quality far suprassing anything the Mexican Cartels can deliver. I remember Mexican back in the 90's was like brown and full of seeds. Now how I wish I had stockpiled those seeds from 30 years ago. I had them in abundance, not Mexican, but the other varieties I mentioned. Those would have been seeds to hold on to.

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
  • Darevalo
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      Darevalo  

    • same thing happened with bootlegging in the 20's this should have been common sense when they saw the same pattern reoccurring.

    • 2 years ago
  • spacemikey
  • thecoyote23
  • animebelle
  • galwayman
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      galwayman  

    • The drug cartels need to go and this is great news. I know for a fact that people all over the country are growing canabis! as it becomes legal even more will grow.Have had homegrown from many states it is always top grade! so lets all buy American!

    • 2 years ago
  • bailey78
  • bailey78
    • 0
      bailey78  

    • Home Grown gets ya real stone keep it at home and smoke it all alone that Home grown get ya stone to the bone on that Home grown real stone in a coma stone on that home grown grow yo own home grown to get stone to the bone with that home grown don't be shy get high on the home grown .............Put a mexican out of work grow your own home grown !!!!!!!!!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  

    • If they want to control the gangs and violence, all they have to do is legalize it here. They could tax it, regulate it, and help farmers and the fiber industry at the same time.
      Just getting rid of the violence accross the border would really help.

      But there are people making lots of money off "the war on drugs." They want things to stay the same.

    • 2 years ago
  • royulery
  • hunzedog
    • 0
      hunzedog  

    • legalize cannabis and bring prosperity to the nation....put the drug dealers out of business. end prohibition; promote peace.!

    • 2 years ago
  • dragon1984
  • dragon1984
  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • This is what legalization will bring out, entepenures who grow high grade pot that right now sells anywhere between 250 to 400 dollars an ounce. People all over the United States would start to grow pot not even to make millions but to make a couple of hundred grand a year legally on a small plot of land being sure to grow great pot. People make money, pay taxes, buy consumer products, stimulates the economy as a new agri business emerges not controlled by big business but people doing what I just outlined, thousands of small growers harvesting 15 to 50 lbs a year and enjoying a pretty much stress free life making a good living and suppling a product whose demand now partially supports illegal drug cartels who commit atrocious crimes against innocent people. Just another reason to legalize weed.

      tom mcmahon
      millis ma
      tommic

    • 2 years ago
  • UndoInfluence
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      UndoInfluence  
    • tommic:

      Yes, just as how all current day farmers of legal plants are raking in mountains of cash for each crop load... Considering how relatively easy it is to grow assuming you wouldn't have to worry about the feds thermo-imaging your property the current day prices would eventually drop a decent amount.

      This move would also cause a bit of havoc in other seemingly unrelated industries such as the cotton and paper industry, both of which would see a noticeable dent in their demand as hemp (currently illegal to grow in most of the US) would invariably be legalized as well.

      Overall some people clinging on to old industries without bothering to adapt would be driven to the poor house (and unfortunately to the voter's booth) while many jobs would inevitably be created in a massive economic boom.

    • 2 years ago
  • Manuel_Trujillo
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      Manuel_Trujillo  

    • what would the cartel do, if we legalized and started manufacturing their biggest cash cow?

      they would really be reduced to a fraction of the power that they have now....

    • 2 years ago
  • 0roburos
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      0roburos  

    • By the time its no longer a Illegal substance & we can work with it on a job test , it will be synthasized to the point where it will kill you with prolonged use, Like tobacco..

    • 2 years ago
  • Manuel_Trujillo
  • RFIDemocracy
  • UndoInfluence
  • csmonut
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      csmonut  

    • About time!
      A friend of mine is licensed by the state of CA to grow pot which he then sells to licensed people who make it available for medicinal use.

      I would dearly love to see the drug cartels fall like a bad loaf of bread.

      More money in the pockets of those who live, buy and work in the state.

    • 2 years ago
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