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Drug Traffickers Seek Safe Haven Amid Legal Marijuana
- dang 11y agoUrl changed from http://www.latinpost.com/articles/112868/20160202/marijuana-legalization-colorado-killing-mexican-drug-cartels.htm http://www.latinpost.com/articles/112868/20160202/marijuana-..., which points to this.
- maskedinvader 11y agothanks for this. wondering what was the motivation for the change!
- dang 11y agoThe site guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nsns 11y agoIt seems there's a very simple solution to this problem....
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- the_watcher 11y agoThis is one of the least surprising "negative" outcomes of legal marijuana in selective states. I put negative in quotes just as a signal that it's not exactly optimal, but there's an argument that by moving their growth operations somewhere legal, it reduces the likelihood of violence in that particular aspect of the black market marijuana industry.
- DrScump 11y agoIn CA, making grows legal has just made the illegal grow problem worse, since the legal crop masks the illegal crop in the supply chain. We have huge problems with illegal grows on public lands (or other people's private lands out of easy view) and the concomitant adverse effects (toxins, erosion, dumping, workers imported illegally, violence against neighbors and enforcement agencies, price pressure on legal operations, ...).
- r00fus 11y agoInteresting - do you have a reference for this?
- hyperion2010 11y agohttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0120016 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
- wanderfowl 11y agoI personally can't stand weed, mostly for the smell and allergic potential of public or shared-wall-dwelling smoking. At some level, it was a joy to move out of Colorado, to an "illegal" place where public and apartment smoking is much more rare. Even to me, with this admitted bias, this article is another great argument for 50 state legalization. Chasing legal weed across state lines is a huge resource-sink which wins us exactly nothing as a society. Just get it over with and legalize it everywhere, and use the funding you saved to step up enforcement of DUI laws, substance abuse help programs, and hell, fixing bridges and laying fiber.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoIs it even technically allowed to smoke inside those apartments?
- X-Istence 11y agoYes, it's legal to smoke inside an apartment, so long as your lease doesn't disallow it for example.
- dmoy 11y agoEven for complexes where it's disallowed, good luck getting it enforced. I get weed smoke coming in through the ventilation system from who knows where in my completely non-smoking building on a regular basis. Actually was the same before legalization too, and hasn't really increased, so this is sort of a non sequitur.
- TrevorJ 11y agoIf your landlord fails to enforce the lease agreement, you can probably use that to get out of the lease. Our complex recently had people complaining about this very thing and they have started getting much stricter about it thank goodness.
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- CyberDildonics 11y agoColorado to other states: sounds like a you problem.
- LordKano 11y agoI see a bit or irony here. FTA: The Obama administration last month urged the Supreme Court to reject the suit, saying that the leakage was not Colorado's fault. But just a few weeks ago, the same President argued that gun crime in Illinois is Indiana's fault for having less restrictive gun laws.
- s_q_b 11y agoNo one's vape ever ricocheted off a wall into a child's chest cavity... Prosecutors have full discretion on the most important cases they choose pursue. This would be an exercise of that discretion.
- jqm 11y agoIDK... that could have happened at some point. Besides, that's like saying "no one ever got all baked and left their child in a hot car because they were carrying a gun.." In other words, it's kind of a pointless point.
- TrevorJ 11y agoThe argument isn't one of severity, but of responsibility so your comment doesn't really address the argument being made.
- jorgecurio 11y agoI don't know why as society we are so adamant on censoring things or distorting reality to avoid hurting children the way we think is going to hurt them by exposure to marijuana etc but has somebody done the research that shows marijuana smoke hurts kids? Nothing pisses me more off than seeing a parent light up a fucking cigarette in front of their kids. But marijuana? God forbid any kid with epilepsy or depression smoke the devil's drug and end up like reefer madness...
- dave2000 11y agoNo irony; get rid of drug laws and you rid yourselves of drug crime; restrict gun sales and you reduce gun crime.
- vessenes 11y agoI would think that all of the ins and outs of these different-legality-by-state issues were mostly sorted during Prohibition. So, it's fun to speculate about who won the 'exporting devil alcohol' legal debates of the 1920s. We definitely would not benefit as a Union from having export controls implemented by states, which of course just shows up some of the weirdness of having a federated legal system.
- deciplex 11y ago> That "is really hard to curb," he said. "We can't essentially babysit adults and their behavior." We need more people like this in government.