Marijuana enforcement a boon to crime?
source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/02/09/marijuana-enforcement-a-boon-to-crime/#...
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“It is the money, not the drug, that drives these cartels and gangs,” Charles Mandigo, who served 27 years with the FBI and headed its Seattle office, told a legislative hearing in Olympia.
He was testifying in favor of Initiative 502, which would legalize the growth and possession of cannabis, tax it, sell-it at state-sanctioned stores, and give the State Liquor Control Board authority over it.
John McKay, who served as U.S. Attorney for Western Washington from 2001 to 2007, said I-502 is an antidote to a “tremendously failed national policy and a tremendously failed state policy on marijuana.
“Criminal enforcement of marijuana doesn’t work,” McKay argued. It “creates an enormous flow of money to international drug cartels, criminals and thugs,” he added.
(more at link with an interesting gallery of photos)
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Anonmaly
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They can't do shit to stop it.... And they brag on the news "We took thousands of pounds off the street." as if they make a difference...
It's horrible, the serious criminal enterprises cannot be stopped by prohibition, the guys have figured ways around the laws and any law you can come up with short all out Nazism.... Sure they'll lose some drugs or some money from time to time, they might take out a few higher level drug dealers, but the very top of the trade, those really moving the shit never get touched.
With all the blind drops, double blind drops, people not even knowing who they are working for and billions already made by cartel leaders and such.... There is no stopping them short of legalizing it and deflating their profits....
The prices on drugs have done nothing but dropped, with a few exceptions where it's stayed the same... There hasn't been a rise in prices since the mid to late 80's, and since then..... I mean compare the price of a gallon of gas to the price of a quarter bag of weed over the past 15-20 years..... Do that with anything and drugs, inflation hasn't even brought the price up...
The government needs to accept it's methods are failed, they're only waging wars on desperate, drugged out, or just people looking to have a good time or relax.....
Pretty bad it's easier to lock people up than support an economy that would allow them to make it in the free world.....
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Anonmaly
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VFORVENDETTA
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Anyone with the smallest degree of intelligence, understands that as soon as something becomes prohibited, you create a black market for what ever that item is, America's idiotic "war on drugs" needs to end.
This is the reason why Mafia bosses such as Al Capone celebrated the passage of Prohibition in the 1930s, because they knew the Illegal liquor "business" would make them fortunes, which it did.
And just as an aside, one man who was very quick to understand this, was the 44th US ambassador to The United Kingdom From 1938 to 1940 who because of his status as an "ambassador" made a small fortune (Amongst other criminal activities) transporting liquor to The United Kingdom.
And who was this "legal" bootlegger?
Why no other than Joseph P. Kennedy, that's right, father of John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States and the whole Kennedy clan.
Yet another perfect example of Plutocracy in action.
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VFORVENDETTA
