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mountain grammy

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7. Prohibition is directly responsible for the cartels..

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 08:38 AM

Feb 2016

the war on drugs has created the huge underground crime wave for the last 100 years. Please read "Chasing the Scream." It's an honest account of the misery created by the drug war.

Marijuana use in Colorado has not increased, and most increases in the statistics are people who have always enjoyed pot but would never answer yes because it was illegal. Crime in Colorado has decreased.
Oh, and the number of deaths from marijuana overdoses? Still zero!

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Why US can’t ignore Colorado’s pot ‘experiment [View all] Jesus Malverde Feb 2016 OP

K&R! TeamPooka Feb 2016 #1

These idiots always try to pretend that CO is the only state. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #2

Evidence keeps rolling in that Colorado is making a bundle, and other states would MADem Feb 2016 #3

Those articles are written by people apparently on a different planet. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #4

The POLICE don't want to enforce those dumb laws. MADem Feb 2016 #5

I really think when it comes to weed, the whole "cartel" noise is a bunch of propaganda BS anyway. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #6

Prohibition is directly responsible for the cartels.. mountain grammy Feb 2016 #7

Why not, it seems this article and everyone else ignores the fact that it's not just Colorado but Bluenorthwest Feb 2016 #8