Hit Mexico’s Cartels With Legalization

Ioan Grillo, journalist and author of “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency”
International Herald Tribune
Friday, November 2, 2012

We have to face up to the hard reasons why thousands of young men (and some women) with full mental faculties have become serial killers. These reasons should be taken into account by residents of Colorado, Washington state and Oregon when they vote on referendums to legalize marijuana. The painful truth is that the monster of Mexican cartels has been pumped up by decades of Americans buying illegal drugs under the policies of prohibition. If voters do choose to legalize marijuana it would be a historic decision, but it would also open up a can of worms. The U.S. federal government and even the United Nations would be forced to react to a state’s resolution to break from the path.

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violencia | legalización | méxico