Could Legalizing Marijuana Curb Mexican Drug Violence?
Could Legalizing Marijuana Curb Mexican Drug Violence? – Complete video at: fora.tv Beau Kilmer and Richard Lee debate the potential effects marijuana legalization in California could have on Mexican drug cartels. Kilmer cites that California only accounts for a small percentage of the cartels’ revenue, while Lee counters that legalization in California could lead to legalization nationwide. —– Will California become the first state to legalize the production and sale of marijuana? November ballot measure Proposition 19 would allow local governments to choose whether and how to regulate and tax marijuana. Some are concerned about legalization’s effect on consumption and public health, while others tout the potential boon to city and state coffers. Besides the jaw-dropping estimated retail price decrease from 0 to per ounce, nothing is really certain about the potential impact of Prop 19. Get informed before the vote — don’t miss advocates of both sides arguing the pros and cons of pushing pot through the legal pipeline. – Commonwealth Club of California Beau Kilmer is codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. His primary fields of interest are illicit markets, community corrections, drug treatment, and the future of drug testing. Kilmer’s recent work focused on measuring the size of the global drug market for the European Commission and developing indicators to measure the impact of drug enforcement in Europe. His current work focuses on identifying the community-level effects of drug treatment and …
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as long as there is prohibition,? there will be a black market. as long as there is a black market, there will be organised crime.
Really now? Who needs? “quick money” when you can get real money selling heroin and cocaine?
you are so ignorant, pot is what? raises the quick money which fuels the rest of their cartel.
There’s no money? in pot. Heroin though 😉
The war on Mexico is a failure.
Legalize it or? not! stop violence! terrorism is not the answer! wrong tactics!
The enemy is cuba narco-communist and florida, not Mexico!
southamerican Cocaine is a? problem and cuba is a narco state
You have been making me laugh since we started. With your immature explanations and the “FACT” that you can’t explain where you got? your “FACTS” from. =)
You are SO high, you don’t? even know how to track the comments…HILARIOUS!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THE LAUGHS!!!
I like how you lol’d at your own? stupidity. LMAO
Put it this way, I expected more of you when I sent you the link dumbfuck. Why didn’t you even read into it? You would have known if you would have read off of it.? And how would you know how to use a citation if you haven’t even cited one thing you’ve said beside “Fact” this “Fact” that?
LOL. You obviously can’t see yourself, your own comments, and your desperation for validation. Your comment was,”…this came from cambridge.” You didn’t say anything about the University. There are a hundred places named cambridge, and many things associated with each. I’t not my job to guess your intended reference. It’s your job to properly reference citations. BTW…it is a proper name, so capitalize the “c” and include “university”.? i.e. “Cambridge University”.
Wow, you? must have look up “nonsensical” in the dictionary. Finally no Wikipedia nonsense. Where you looking up how to describe yourself? And I do have a lot info from reliable sources. I still can’t believe you would say that the Cambridge University is not a high enough source for you. And yet it surpasses your so called “private education” (you must have needed to go to a private education because no other school would educate a hard headed person) 10 times.
…And your nonsensical gibberish is doing what for you? You have nothing, and when it’s pointed out, that’s your? default. It’s o.k.
You are an epic fail, admit it? man. Lol you just keep lowering yourself more by the comment.
I fixate because the definition of “power vacuum” is not how you used it dumbass. lol It shows that you say things without fully? having a grip in understanding what it means.
LOL, you’re such a dunce. I went to college for a field in the applied science industries, so I didn’t “need to go to college to figure out wikipedia”? wasn’t going to be one of my sources. Why you’re fixated on that, I’ll never guess. But it is funny. A piece of advice, weed isn’t helping your cognitive skills.
The real def. is a condition that exists when someone has lost control of something and no one has replaced them. This does not come off wikipedia (if you went? to college you would know that wikipedia is one of the most unreliable sources of information.) This came from the cambridge.
Can you pls reread what you just told me? You’re telling me I’m chasing my own tail when you have yours in your own mouth and are still racing after it with it in your mouth. You must really not watch the news or have not read enough articles to debate this topic very well. Or have but you’re tiny little brain hasn’t settled with it’s content. And I did this over years of being in college, in different? classes. I’ve managed to develop my arrangement.
demand. Oh right you don’t pay attention news. You don’t read text books, you don’t read articles, and you can’t even fully develop a good? argument except that “I’m full of stupidity and that I’m immature”. Lol and how old are you? Can’t you come up with something better!? I really do hope that you’re young and naive, b/c if this is what the elder Americans think, (and I know that not all do) it would be a shame that all those years of life experiences ending without true wisdom and knowledge.
Lmao you really can’t hold content in that shitty little brain of yours. The reason I quoted Sun Tzu, is b/c he gives the reason why America’s economic issue have gone up. And I’m not full of stupidity, you are you illegal Alien. lol And why should I step back across the border, to get shot by the guns that are being sent from the US? And get shot down b/c I moved into a Cartel’s territory. Look what America? caused! Just like the prohibition, now it’s raised Cartels b/c supply and…
Yep then you agree, it is ok to steal. My case is closed. And yes I am. Just like I can say you’re ancestors were scared people that came to this land to escape religious persecution. And that they’re a bunch of robbers. That you are too lazy to learn new things. So the following? things you say don’t really mean shit to me, since YOU already broke the law yourself. Just like it wasn’t Jews fault they were Jews it’s not Illegals fault they were born on the other side of YOUR border.
Again, you still are having trouble with the idea of law, what it means, and it’s purpose. By your standards, any expelled Armenian christian should be able to change the name of Istanbul back to Constantinople, and by mass protest return the name of Byzantium in place of Turkey. War defines borders. Get over it. So it is with the American southwest. Now it is our? land, our law. America was a power vacuum, just waiting in time for the first settlers and you’re no indian.
You’re good at production volume, but not at substance. You’re still mouthing gibberish. You pretentiously mention “Sun Tzu”, o.k. what did Sun Tzu do to trespassers and invaders into his land? Offer them milk, cookies, and free health care? No, it’s a bit more graphic than that. But you’re too full of your own stupidity to know any better.If you like the 3rd world lifestyle so much, it’s REAL easy, step BACK across? that border.
You’re chasing your own tail here. You cannot draw your attempted parallel between immigrants from europe, asia, africa, middle east, etc…many of which suffered more dire circumstances and? economic hardship, and still managed to obey necessary immigration law, and mexican illegals, who complain much about following the law of proper immigration and use economic opportunity as an excuse to violate said law. Nice try though.
So you do agree and accept that you were from? a foreign land? Why didn’t your honorable and courageous ancestors fight back against the religious persecution for which they fled their motherland. You came here for opportunity, to a land that was not yours. Why did they not hold their ground and armed themselves to fight back, like you told me when I asked you, “would you not move your family from a place that they may be endanger of”? That they can be shot and killed at?