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In reply to the discussion: 15-year-old girl who performed at Obama inauguration gunned down in Chicago [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)"I do not buy pot, not because it is illegal, but because of the blood that was spilled to bring it to me."
I think most pot sales do not involve product that comes from the cartels. Besides many people grow their own. And thirdly, even if you were to buy cartel product from a dealer (which I applaud you for not doing), I would think the blame would lie more on those who make it illegal in the first place, since it should not be.
The gun argument may actually be a better fit for this logic, since people don't make their own, there is an underground gun market that was not solved by the fact that guns are legal (criminals don't want to go through normal channels to buy their weapons), and there is a strong gun lobby that makes sure we don't have reasonable regulation and control of who has guns. Maybe a better argument along those lines would involve NRA membership rather than gun ownership, since the NRA is a large part of the gun lobby, but many if not most gun and ammo purchases probably do feed into the pro gun lobby, so there is some responsibility there.