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August 21, 2010
Madison NORML Examiner: Alleged cartel pot grows in Northern WI just another sign prohibition only makes things worse
Posted by Gary Storck
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Below is my latest essay for Madison NORML Examiner!
Alleged cartel pot grows in Northern WI just another sign prohibition only makes things worse
August 21st, 2010 12:44 am
MADISON: Law enforcement and news sources have linked last weeks 200-officer raid on more than ten marijuana grows on public lands in NE Wisconsin to Mexican drug cartels. Meanwhile, before the dust from what TIME called a “pot megafarm” had settled, another national forest grow was located. Marinette County Sheriffs reported deputies found more than 3,000 plants on another grow on Aug. 17.
In Mexico, with over 28,000 already dead in cartel related violence triggered by drug prohibition, President Felipe Calderon has now proposed a debate on the legalization of drugs. Calderon's predecessor, Vicente Fox, declared that since prohibition strategies had failed, Mexico should consider legalizing "the production, sale and distribution of drugs."
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