Legalizing MJ won't hinder Cartels

[pgg]

A new study that says that if we legalized MJ in CA it won't hinder the cartels at all.

Study: Legalizing pot won't hinder Mexican cartels - World news - Americas - Focus on Mexico - msnbc.com

Study: Legalizing pot won't hinder Mexican cartels
Researchers find that Calif. residents prefer to grow their own marijuana Advertisement | ad info

.By MARTHA MENDOZA
The Associated Press
updated 10/12/2010 4:51:05 PM ET 2010-10-12T20:51:05
SANTA CRUZ, California — Mexico's drug traffickers are likely to lose customers in America's largest pot consuming state if California legalizes marijuana, but they won't lose much money overall because California's residents already prefer to grow their own, according to a study released Tuesday.

That means the proposal on the state's November ballot to legalize marijuana also will do little to quell the drug gangs' violent and sophisticated organizations that generate billions of dollars a year, according to the study by the nonpartisan RAND Drug Policy Research Center.


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[MacLean]

Makes perfect sense.

Legalization in the State with the largest production would not impact the rest of the country at all.