Americans spend $9 billion a year on Mexican pot

According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Americans spend about $9 billion a year on Mexican marijuana. This $9 billion dollars make up 62 percent of the Mexican cartels total profits. 

These two simple statistics illustrate a simple yet profound point, if weed was legal tomorrow 62 percent of the Mexican cartels' profits would be gone within a year tops.  A business that looses 62 percent of it's profitability would be crippled at best as a result. 

It's a pretty simple choice really. We can either ignite an all out war on the southern border with Mexican cartels wile meanwhile they continue to make that same $9 billion dollars a year that they can use to fight the US and Mexican armies. Or we can legalize cannabis in this country cut off 62 percent of the cartels' profits and resources to fight with.  

What option leads to fewer deaths and less money wasted?  You be the judge.

-VeganToker

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We have a serious problem on the southern border, Mexican drug cartels are importing very large quantities of drugs across the border into the United States. In return, guns and money travel back to Mexico were they are put to work for ruthless drug gangs that are proving a serious risk to the stability of Mexico as a nation. The United States government has mobilised troops, and extra border agents to the region hoping this will lessen the violence and keep any problems out of our side of the border.  

What I fear we will find however is the Mexican mafia has enough money, guns and drugs to keep up this fight for longer than some suspect. We however, with two wars already commanding our resources cannot afford a third. High ranking Obama administration officials are on record stating that we are partially to blame.  Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the US bears some blame for the crisis because of its "insatiable" appetite for illegal drugs and its role as a supplier of weapons that are smuggled into Mexico to arm the cartels'. 

So demand is here to stay. At least according to the Secretary of State. The Drug war in America has tried to teach this nation many things but one of the most obvious is no matter how many drug dealers you arrest, as long as there is demand for the product, there will always be more drug dealers to arrest. 

This is a pretty complicated problem, it's a really good thing the solution is so simple.... LEGALIZE MARIJUANA. Of course we aren't quite there yet and that brings us to the whole reason this blog was born and the message I would like to leave you with today; If we can't end demand (and I sure as hell don't want to anyways)  then what we can do is change who controls the supply. There is no reason that otherwise law abiding citizens of this country could not grow their own marijuana in order to supply themselves and other responsible adults and in doing so cripple the Mexican mafias' profits. In fact that is exactly what I'm here to ask you and help you to do. Our brothers and sisters on the southern border are being killed because of this drug war. lets start working logically to end it and maybe the politicians will catch up.

-VeganToker