Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations?

Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by tomrod on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:12PM (#16153910)

> You can't just substitute things and expect them to keep the same market.

Of course not. What we face is an organized, unregulated, lawless group of dangerous criminals who find one of their primary income sources dwindling. I did not intend for my original point to debate foundations of economic theory, only to point out that they are likely to continue diversifying their product -- apparently they are switching to avocados and old-fashioned mob shakedowns, as per another comment on this thread.

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Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by lmm on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:03AM (#16157301)

If those other activities are profitable, why wouldn't they be doing them already? Your post implies reducing their ability to sell cannabis will increase their other activities, which I see no reason to believe.

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Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by godelski on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:44AM (#16158958)

I'm confused by the downvotes you got, because you basically said the conclusion of my post.

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