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Wall Street Journal suggests raising white flag on marijuana prohibition to de-fund Mexican cartels

It's quite astonishing to see this subhed in today's Wall Street Journal story titled "Saving Mexico": "To weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of the drug trade." According to the WSJ:Growing numbers of Mexican and U.S. officials say?at least privately?that the biggest step in hurting the business operations of Mexican cartels would be simply to legalize their main product: marijuana. Long the world's most popular illegal drug, marijuana accounts for more than half the revenues of Mexican cartels.Several other related, recent stories caught my eye today.An AP story published widely on Christmas Day noted the odd truth that El Paso remains a relatively calm, crime-free city compared to Juarez across the river where the worst of the Mexican cartel wars are raging...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 26, 2009 (boomark / email).