Re: [Pen-l] this is your war / this is your war on drugs

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Naiman wrote:
> I think I've seen the following estimate more than once in the press
> over the last week or so: it's estimated that 70% of the illegal drug
> traffic from Mexico to the U.S. is marijuana, in part the result of
> displacement of supply to Mexico from the U.S. following crackdown in
> the U.S. Also that marijuana is estimated to be among the most
> profitable of the drug trades from Mexico.

if pot were legalized and totally unregulated, that profit would go
away. The stuff grows almost everywhere, on the side of the road,
etc., since it's literally a weed.

A friend from Chile told me that (back in the 1960s), pot was free
because of this. Interestingly, not that many people smoked it. It was
a upper-class kid's sin (and he was rich). Working-class Chileans
sneered at upper-class pot-twits and avoided the stuff. Maybe this
explains why the rich supported Pinochet....
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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