Reply #11: Allow people to grow their own. That will take the money out of pot, and [View All]

[alfredo]

restrict the markets for the drug cartels. Those cartels would then go to war over what remaining products are profitable. That war will weaken the drug gangs, and possibly cut the number of organizations we have to find and destroy. Pot wasn't controlled by the gangs until Nixon did his operation intercept. That doubled the price of pot and made it profitable enough for the mob to get involved.

I remember soon after Nixon's Operation Intercept, small private dealers were being assassinated, or beaten horribly by the mob in my town.