http://blog.legalagainnow.net/2009/05/01/mexico-may-decriminalize-marijuana/ Helping you bring the change you want to see in drug policy Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:09:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.legalagainnow.net/2009/05/01/mexico-may-decriminalize-marijuana/#comment-59 Mon, 18 May 2009 16:14:06 +0000 http://blog.legalagainnow.net/?p=222#comment-59 ” I am writing to express my concern over a recent trend developing largely over the last few months. There has been an explosion in support for the legalization of marijuana. This is a terrible idea! If marijuana were to be legal, my entire business would be destroyed overnight. My company, a Mexican drug cartel, makes most of its money from marijuana. In 2004-2005 Mexican drug cartels grossed $8.6 billion from marijuana alone. That’s a huge amount of money that would no longer go to my cartel and others, but instead into the US economy. How could any industry continue to exist if all of a sudden, $8.6 billion was cut out from their income? After all, the next best selling drug is cocaine, but that only brings in $3.9 billion a year, less than half the amount marijuana does.
Plus, reports from other countries that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana have all shown a decrease in the demand for harder drugs, so the $3.9 billion from cocaine would also be drastically reduced.
Please keep the illegal drug trade profitable by keeping marijuana illegal.”

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