Cartel Smuggling High Quality US Pot Into Mexico

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The relatively small experiment in state-level legalization / decriminalization of marijuana is gutting the Mexican drug cartels' profit, and at least one cartel is smuggling US grown, high potency marijuana from the US into Mexico according to DEA sources speaking with 

hightimes.com/read/legal-marijuana-screwing-mexican-cartels

Although marijuana remains illegal in the eyes of Uncle Sam and his drug enforcement henchmen, over half the states in the Land of the Free have been allowed to legalize the leaf for medicinal and recreational purposes. This movement has not only resulted in a booming cannabis industry, but it has also brought forth some of the most high-powered marijuana to ever be sold on the American black market. As a result, very few pot connoisseurs in states where pot is illegal are smoking anything resembling Mexican brick weed – a sign of the times that will undoubtedly put the stranglehold on small-time farmers hired to grow dope for the cartels.

"Two or three years ago, a kilogram [2.2 pounds] of marijuana was worth $60 to $90," one grower told NPR. "But now they're paying us $30 to $40 a kilo. It's a big difference. If the U.S. continues to legalize pot, they'll run us into the ground."
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Interestingly, the legalization of marijuana in America has caused a bizarre shift in the distribution of weed between the United States and Mexico. DEA officials report that the Sinaloa cartel has been engaged in smuggling high-quality herb from Colorado back into Mexico to sell at premium prices.

Everything proponents of individual liberty said would happen with legalization, and decriminalization of marijuana has happened. The response by Constitution-flouting, illegal drug warriors? "Car accidents where drivers test positive for pot have doubled". Oooohhhh, scaaaarrry. "Test positive" is dubious even to establish a correlation, let alone causation. And then there's that pesky Constitutional issue...As a conservative, I'm in favor of upholding the Constitution, and that means I cannot support the illegal "war on drugs" carried out by usurping powers not granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8 of the enumerated powers. At least during alcohol prohibition, our leaders had the integrity to amend the Constitution. I haven't met a proponent of the war on drugs that can explain why we had to amend the Constitution for that, but we don't have to do the same for the war on drugs?

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Its also the fastest growing industry in the country. So the feds will still try to put the kabosh on it. So much for growing the economy and putting people to work and the entrepreneur "risk takers"

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Dependents are so much easier to manage than those silly free thinking, independent people.