Legalizing Drugs

It was said, in the 80s, that the problem of producing mariguana in Mexico for sale to the big US market could be easily solved by not only legalizing the production, but also by nationalizing it.
We would create a State giant "Motamex", full of inept and corrupt or corruptible bureaucrats. In a couple of years, Motamex would pass from a formidable exporter to a deficitary white elephant. The price of pot would soar, due to inefficient production and excessive costs, and the consumption would diminish accordingly. In 5 years, production would be almost negligible, prices would be at the stars, and Motamex would have to be shut down. Drug problem solved.

In case you don't know -- marijuana -- which has the inherent value of grass clippings (it is a weed!) -- now sells for between $300 and $400 per ounce. You could buy gold at that price just a few years back.

Frank Apisa wrote:

In case you don't know -- marijuana -- which has the inherent value of grass clippings (it is a weed!) -- now sells for between $300 and $400 per ounce. You could buy gold at that price just a few years back.

Ummmmmm....I don't know who you're getting those numbers from but they're way off. Who pays 300 clams for an ounce of that? That's ludicrous.

Frank Apisa wrote:

In case you don't know -- marijuana -- which has the inherent value of grass clippings (it is a weed!) -- now sells for between $300 and $400 per ounce. You could buy gold at that price just a few years back.

Ummmmmm....I don't know who you're getting those numbers from but they're way off. Who pays 300 clams for an ounce of that? That's ludicrous.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN ILLEGAL DRUGS AND WEAPONS TRAFFIC
http://www.adaction.org/pubs/govtdrugs226.html

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, as is by now well-known by anyone who has cared to be informed, has long been deeply involved in the international trafficking of the addictive drugs heroin and (since the early 1980s, if not earlier) cocaine, the enormous profits from which have financed, and continue to finance, both U.S. covert operations and the U.S. military (via payments to Pentagon contractors).
http://www.serendipity.li/cia.html

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair take the revelations of the links between the Central Intelligence Agency, the Nicaraguan Contras, and the Los Angeles crack market that journalist Gary Webb exposed in 1996--revelations that are the basis of Webb's book Dark Alliance--and use them as a springboard for a tale of the U.S. government's involvement with the illegal drug trade that extends much further back than Webb's tale.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859841392/102-2988631-9364118?vi=reviews

For those who believe that the US government is sincerely fighting against drugs in Colombia and other Latin American lands, the story of Col. James Hiett, 48, and his wife Laurie, 36, reveals the sad truth of US drug prohibition.
http://www.narconews.com/nmonth0400.html

Unsolved murders. Inner-city ghettos cleaned out by SWAT teams contracted by the US Housing Department. Mysterious plane flights that don't show up on radar. They were all tied together at the CIA drugs symposium on June 10 in Eugene, Oregon.
Speakers included ex-DEA agent Cele Castillio, ex-HUD Secretary General Catherine Austin Fitts, ex-documentary maker Daniel Hopsicker, ex-LAPD officer Mike Rupert, and ex-Federal Aviation Administration air-carrier inspector Robert Stitch.
The proliferation of "ex's" in the list of speakers was evidence itself of what this group of speakers had gathered to uncover. Without exception and in the course of their regular duties, each had unwittingly discovered that the CIA smuggles crack, cocaine and other illegal substances into the US to fund covert operations south of the border. Each of them had chosen to speak out about the CIA, and had been thrown out of their professions, bankrupted and relentlessly persecuted in ways that could only be possible either by remarkable coincidence or if they were speaking the truth.
Also at the conference was tireless Berkeley Professor Peter Dale Scott, who has been documenting CIA drug smuggling since the 70's, Dedon Kamathi, lecturer and African rights organizer and Kris Millegan, researcher and event organizer. Among the audience, I could feel the oily presence of spooks shape shifted into inquisitive onlookers and fake activists. I could also feel the paranoia of the speakers, who sometimes winced in anticipation of a gunshot when I moved in too quickly for a picture.
"I'll probably be dead within a year," said Castillo, who showed us pictures of brutalized Salvadorans, tortured and killed to prevent them from giving testimony about CIA/DEA and government involvement in drug trafficking. Castillo took many of the pictures himself when he worked as lead DEA investigator in El Salvador.
Together, the group is probably the most experienced, professional team of investigators and researchers ever brought together on this topic. No wonder the US government doesn't want anything to do with them. Their combined stories sketched out a tale of deception that reaches from state police to the presidency, and deep into the historical roots of secret agencies and governments.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/article.cgi?num=1580

Marijuana mail-order
by Bianca Sind (29 Jul, 2003)
Three Canadian companies offer buds for sale over the Internet.One sign of Canada's growing acceptance of cannabis is the increasing number of marijuana delivery services springing up across the country. These businesses offer nationwide access to fine buds through the magic of mail-order.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3041.html

Git off that hoss, Montana, and lets's share some of this weed!

The trouble is, Bill, that the enforcers are taking huge benefits from the drug trade -- unless you are one who refuses to believe the gov would such a thing. As long as an economic tie exists between Defense/CIA and the drug trade, we "can't afford" to legalize and kill that market.