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   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article <406adc00-8662-41cd-94a3-b7458eac0eff@w41g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>   
   Brother Nate  writes:   
      
   >That's what led to the question of people who are giving   
   >money to violent criminal cartels by buying drugs from   
   >them, and subsequently my observation that most pot   
   >smokers seem to be politically ambivalent so they're   
   >really only passing money along to violent criminal   
   >cartels because we haven't given them less repugnant   
   >alternatives.   
      
   But the assumption there is that all illegal pot is supplied by violent   
   criminal cartels.   
      
   The truth is it isn't.  And if pot were legal it would be much easier to   
   ensure that much less of the money goes to violent criminal cartels.   
      
   And if pot were legal it would be easier to identify where it comes from.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
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