Legalizing pot will only BEGIN to hinder the "cartels." It's a big, ugly monster that's grown and thrived on decades of prohibition, and it's not going away overnight. But it'll never be torn down until after it stops being built up.

Legalizing will reduce crime here in America as well. No one will have to talk teenagers out of going into the drug-selling business if there is no opportunity for them to.

The latest - In the case of the man who was shot and killed on Falcon Lake, the Mexican Army has just taken delivery of the severed head of the chief investigator. To the prohibitionists I ask: when will it be enough? What has to happen before you wake up and face what your 'moral stance' has done?

Anyone remember the party that got massacred a couple of months back? Eighteen teenage kids killed when some goons attacked an incorrect address? Can someone explain how that supports the public health?

END PROHIBITION NOW - Because we can't do it forty years ago.

The War On Drugs is Worse Than Drugs.

Kudos to TJLambert. Why is pot any worse than tobacco or alcohol? They are all drugs. Tobacco and alcohol have regulations and laws attached to the production and consumption. If pot was legal we wouldn't have the crime of people smuggling it across our borders, 'hits' on other sellers, and a variety of other crimes related to it being illegal.

The government wants to control everything about what Americans can do, when this is another instance where if it were a legal product taxes dollars could be generated from the sales, and jobs for growers, distributors and retailers created.... Oh but I forget there are several medical benefits that the "legal" drug companies don't want it accessible for...they would lose money.

It sucks when we can not use and take advantage of the things that are from nature not chemically produced to heal our ailments.....Big business and politians want to tell us its wrong so they can continue to pump people full of chemical concoctions.