This may not weigh heavily on the minds of voters in Seattle, but if Washington and two other U.S. states decide to legalize marijuana in next week's election, the impact on drug traffickers in Mexico could be enormous.
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Mari Freitag's comment,
November 4, 2012 11:36 PM
I think that a lot of the conclusions in this article are pretty obvious. I understand the points by both sides of this debate, but I think that the worry about illegal trafficking between state lines is not a good enough reason to prevent the drug from being legalized. If legalized, marijuana would just be another product regulated by the federal government through the commerce clause in the constitution. I'll be very interested to see what the effects are on other states and the mexican cartels if these initiatives pass in any of the states. The writer of the article is very correct that this would be a game changer for the war on drugs nationwide and worldwide. I've always thought that legalizing pot would help alleviate some of the conflict in Mexico and on the border, simply because it would reduce the revenue those cartels are getting from drug sales. Legalizing marijuana would absolutely take out cartel sales of the drug because the cost of domestic and legal marijuana would be so much less. I don't know that anyone can really predict the way the cartels will react, but I feel like legalizing the drug will only help in the long run.
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