US CA: PUB LTE: Cripple Cartels

Contra Costa Times, 26 Sep 2010 – Legalize marijuana. The 40-year war on drugs has been a dismal failure and worse. In 1972, the war on drugs was raging in towns around Mexico City with no result except to enrich the drug cartels and kill innocent and not so innocent folks. The war on drugs has caused the crime that surrounds illegal products like marijuana. Eighty percent of the cartel income comes from marijuana sales to the United States.