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I'm starting to think more and more that the legalization referendum in California is going to pass this fall, and ocne that happens its going to be a domino effect across the whole country.
I think that a point a lot of people miss is that a lot of this violence and gang warfare in northern Mexico right now is marijuana related. The fighting stems from turf wars in the illegal marijuana trade (cocaine, heroin, etc, the high value stuff has a totally different route into the country). If it were just legalized, at least in California to start, a huge amount of that narco-war in Mexico would just be over.
I agree with you 100% on what you're talking about for legalization. I've been active in Minnesota NORML for a number of years (although I admit that those guys are more concerned with smoking the stuff than legalizing it), and its about time that we stopped filling our jails full of non-violent potheads, and stop the prohibition on Marijuana. All it does is drive the trade underground, start up a black market, encourage organized (and disorganized) crime to get involved, and starve federal, state, and local governments of an easy source of tax revenue.

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