{"id":21126,"date":"2016-03-08T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=21126"},"modified":"2016-03-08T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:49:58","slug":"legal-pot-causes-mexican-drug-cartel-profits-take-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=21126","title":{"rendered":"Legal Pot Causes Mexican Drug Cartel Profits to Take a Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21129 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/First-to-Legalize-Colorado.jpg\" alt=\"First to Legalize Colorado\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/>Legal marijuana causes Mexican drug cartel revenues to plummet<\/h1>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/smellthetruth\/author\/sttm1\/\">Oscar Pascual<\/a> on March 7, 2016 at 10:41 AM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/smellthetruth\/2016\/03\/07\/legal-marijuana-causes-mexican-drug-cartel-revenues-to-plummet\/#photo-377483\">SFGate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marijuana legalization may have accomplished what the War on Drugs has failed to do \u2014 put the squeeze on Mexican drug cartel activity.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Border Patrol <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/USBP%20Stats%20FY2015%20sector%20profile.pdf\">has released 2015 data<\/a><\/b> showing that the number of marijuana seizures throughout the southwest U.S.\/Mexico border has fallen to the lowest level in a decade, the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/03\/03\/legal-marijuana-is-finally-doing-what-the-drug-war-couldnt\/\"><i><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/i><i><em> reports<\/em><\/i><\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican manufacturers of illegal marijuana bricks have driven down prices as residents in California, Colorado, and Washington state now have safe access to reasonably affordable medical marijuana and\/or recreational cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo or three years ago, a kilogram [2.2 pounds] of marijuana was worth $60 to $90,\u201d a Mexican marijuana grower <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2014\/12\/01\/367802425\/legal-pot-in-the-u-s-may-be-undercutting-mexican-marijuana\">told NPR news<\/a><\/b> in December 2014. \u201cBut now they\u2019re paying us $30 to $40 a kilo. 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If the U.S. continues to legalize pot, they\u2019ll run us into the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana legalization may have accomplished what the War on Drugs has failed to do \u2014 put the squeeze on Mexican drug cartel activity.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Border Patrol has released 2015 data showing that the number of marijuana seizures throughout the southwest U.S.\/Mexico border has fallen to the lowest level in a decade, the Washington Post reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[456],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legal Pot Causes Mexican Drug Cartel Profits to Take a Dive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marijuana legalization may have accomplished what the War on Drugs has failed to do \u2014 put the squeeze on Mexican drug cartel activity.  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