Pot and Stuff

Will American Pot Farmers Put the Cartels out of Business? | Mother Jones:

Farmers in the storied "Golden Triangle" region of Mexico's Sinaloa state, which has produced the country's most notorious gangsters and biggest marijuana harvests, say they are no longer planting the crop…increasingly, they're unable to compete with US marijuana growers. With cannabis legalized or allowed for medical use in 20 US states and the District of Columbia, more and more of the American market is supplied with highly potent marijuana grown in American garages and converted warehouses—some licensed, others not.

For years the pro-pot crowd in the US has been saying that legalizing, or decriminalizing pot would reduce the power of the drug cartels in Mexico. Sounds like its working.

Of course, the American pot boom is also creating problems of its own, with some Mexican traffickers moving north to California and other states to set up vast "trespass grows" on remote public lands. 

I wonder what the Cliven Bundy (or all-terrain vehicle) crowd thinks about the rights of others to use that public land to grow pot?


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