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Cannabis

RussBLib

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3. legalizing weed in Mexico would remove some of the cartel's funding, but

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sun Nov 8, 2015, 10:29 PM

Nov 2015

these criminal gangs will not simply cease to exist. Many of them profit greatly from kidnapping people for ransom, and that activity will likely continue, or increase, to make up for the shortfall of money from weed smuggling.

But it would be great for the people and potentially the govermnent, which could generate some serious revenue from legalization.

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