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For sure your four border states are not going to vote weed legal, because of the horrific power it'd give the Mexican cartels to move right into the USA. But all power to DC, Colorado, etc...
Can I question that? It seems to me that if one of those states legalized pot, the primary loser would be the Mexican cartels. The illegal status of MJ is essential for their survival. If I were a drug lord I would donate millions to any candidate that will fight to keep MJ illegal. It would be a disaster if people could grow their own.
Okay, let me translate that. Lower PRICES for weed would be a proportional loss for the cartels.
But aren't we seeing, not lower but higher prices? That's what I read at least about legal weed in Colorado.
And believe me, you do not want these cartel gangsters positioning themselves at the borders of say, Texas and Arizona....this has nothing to do with weed being legal or illegal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War
By the end of Felipe Calderón's administration (200612), the official death toll of the Mexican Drug War was at least 60,000.[79] Estimates set the death toll above 120,000 killed by 2013, not including 27,000 missing.[80][81]If I were them I guess i would not give up without a fight. Perhaps some will try to strong-arm the dispensaries? But I did hear an interpretation about the price of weed in legal states. What a guy at a dispensary in Washington state told me was that the price is kept high to keep the weed from leaving the state. They could be profitable selling a quarter for $20. But then people would drive there and load up to sell in non-legal states. At least that was the thought.
But yeah, the Mexican gangs are bad dudes. It's become a war for control of Mexico as much as a business.