Comments on: Wheeling & Dealing In Michigan – A Hemp Based Auto Industry? http://dissociatedpress.com/2010/09/wheeling-dealing-in-michigan-a-hemp-based-auto-industry/ Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bold Ideas For Re-Branding Michigan | dissociatedpress.com http://dissociatedpress.com/2010/09/wheeling-dealing-in-michigan-a-hemp-based-auto-industry/#comment-3543 Bold Ideas For Re-Branding Michigan | dissociatedpress.com Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:27:34 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=2458#comment-3543 [...] already touched on this one a while ago. Why not become “The Cannabis State”? Not only does the stuff grow like [...] [...] already touched on this one a while ago. Why not become “The Cannabis State”? Not only does the stuff grow like [...]

]]> By: Jillian Galloway http://dissociatedpress.com/2010/09/wheeling-dealing-in-michigan-a-hemp-based-auto-industry/#comment-2227 Jillian Galloway Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:14:33 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=2458#comment-2227 $113 billion is spent on marijuana every year in the U.S., and because of the federal prohibition *every* dollar of it goes straight into the hands of criminals. Far from preventing people from using marijuana, the prohibition instead creates zero legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand. According to the ONDCP, at least sixty percent of Mexican drug cartel money comes from selling marijuana in the U.S., they protect this revenue by brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering countless innocent people. If we can STOP people using marijuana then we need to do so NOW, but if we can't then we need to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. One way or the other, we have to force the cartels out of the marijuana market and eliminate their highly lucrative marijuana incomes - no business can withstand the loss of sixty percent of its revenue! To date, the cartels have amassed more than 100,000 "foot soldiers" and operate in 230 U.S. cities, and Arizona police are now conceding that parts of their state are under cartel control. The longer the cartels are allowed to exploit the prohibition the more powerful they're going to get and the more our own personal security will be put in jeopardy. $113 billion is spent on marijuana every year in the U.S., and because of the federal prohibition *every* dollar of it goes straight into the hands of criminals. Far from preventing people from using marijuana, the prohibition instead creates zero legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand.

According to the ONDCP, at least sixty percent of Mexican drug cartel money comes from selling marijuana in the U.S., they protect this revenue by brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering countless innocent people.

If we can STOP people using marijuana then we need to do so NOW, but if we can’t then we need to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. One way or the other, we have to force the cartels out of the marijuana market and eliminate their highly lucrative marijuana incomes – no business can withstand the loss of sixty percent of its revenue!

To date, the cartels have amassed more than 100,000 “foot soldiers” and operate in 230 U.S. cities, and Arizona police are now conceding that parts of their state are under cartel control. The longer the cartels are allowed to exploit the prohibition the more powerful they’re going to get and the more our own personal security will be put in jeopardy.

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