Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp...
by joveian on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:02PM
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"most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism"
This isn't true, unfortunately (at least in the US and I suspect much of the world) unless you are getting it legally or know the source. The US does grow quite a bit of illegal marijuana but there is also quite a bit imported by Mexican cartels and I have seen articles about how legalization is having a non-trivial financial impact on cartels, such as:
Yes, you can say this is due to it being illegal and you would be right, but we shouldn't ignore what is actually being funded by US illegal drug consumption.
This isn't true, unfortunately (at least in the US and I suspect much of the world) unless you are getting it legally or know the source. The US does grow quite a bit of illegal marijuana but there is also quite a bit imported by Mexican cartels and I have seen articles about how legalization is having a non-trivial financial impact on cartels, such as:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/03/legal...
For detailed reporting on cartels in Mexico see Borderland Beat: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
Yes, you can say this is due to it being illegal and you would be right, but we shouldn't ignore what is actually being funded by US illegal drug consumption.