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In reply to the discussion: 15-year-old girl who performed at Obama inauguration gunned down in Chicago [View all]Glassunion
(10,201 posts)"I think most pot sales do not involve product that comes from the cartels." - 66% of all marijuana sold in the US comes from Mexico.
But it is not the cartels that I am referring to. I am referring to the 1.5 million people in the US who are members of a gang. Gangs are funded and fueled by the illegal trade in drugs. The #1 illegally traded drug in the US is marijuana.
Yes, folks do grow their own, however out of the millions of tons of pot that is smuggled into this country every year, there is a huge market for the product. To ignore that fact, one would be deluding themselves. Even domestically grown MJ has a direct impact on the violence in this nation. If pot is grown in quantity domestically and sold on the street there is a direct correlation to violence that stems from this trade.
If it is illegal to purchase pot in your state, and you purchase pot, you are directly contributing to the violence that occurs here.