Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations?

Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by XorNot on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:38PM (#16154095)

But again that presumes the markets are substitutatable at the same sort of scale and they're just not.

This line of thinking feels like a hold over from the 80s and the notion of drug pushers.

High school kids aren't going to just start doing meth.

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Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by philipkglass on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:00PM (#16154226)

I agree that cartels can't just "pivot to meth" and make the same total profits. There's not enough American demand for meth. I was trying to explain why, for supplying the demand that does exist, meth smuggling is profitable despite the relatively low barriers to entry for small-scale production of meth inside America.

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