WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Saving Mexico” reports from Mexico City: “To weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of the drug trade…
“A senior Mexican official who has spent more than two decades helping fight the government’s war on drugs summed up recently what he’s learned from his long career: ‘This war is not winnable.’
“‘Economically, there is no argument or solution other than legalization, at least of marijuana,’ said the top Mexican official matter-of-factly. The official said such a move would likely shift marijuana production entirely to places like California, where the drug can be grown more efficiently and closer to consumers. ‘Mexico’s objective should be to make the U.S. self-sufficient in marijuana,’ he added with a grin.”
WATCHDOG: This old dog has long campaigned for the taxation, regulation and control of marijuana and to treat hard drugs as a health rather than a criminal justice issue.
The three greatest debacles undermining our nation is the outlandish cost of health care, the runaway military/industrial complex, and the War on Drugs. Historians will report that the trio reduced the USA to a second class nation, deeply in debt to others. When will we learn?
A wag of the tail for the WSJ!
The time to legalize Marijuana is WAY overdue, the negatives of prohibition are tremendous and expensive.