US CA: PUB LTE: The Failure Of Prohibition

The Chico News & Review, 24 Jan 2013 – Re "Taking the high road" (Cover story, by David Downs, Jan. 17): The people of Colorado and Washington state are way ahead of the politicians in Washington, D.C. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize violent drug cartels, prohibition is a grand success. The drug war distorts supply-and-demand dynamics so that big money grows on little trees.