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(Rand 2010) Rand Corporation estimates the cartels make about 15 to 26 percent of their income from marijuana grown and shipped into the United States. Annually the net worth to the cartel is somewhere in the range of 1.5 to 2 billion dollars. This is not counting the marijuana that is grown and sold within the U.S borders. To lower the risk of being caught smuggling marijuana across the borders many cartels have started growing marijuana with in U.S including national parks, public lands but this still will not help their market value due to the fact that the marijuana grown in the U.S legally under a controlled environment will be a stronger strain and more potent than the marijuana grown in the wild or shipped from Mexico. This will leave a very small market for the illegal Mexican marijuana and the cartel will fight among them shelves for a very small market share.
For this particular argument it would have to be “Circular Reasoning”, it’s a fallacy that in which the premises include the claim that the conclusion is true or (directly or indirectly) assume that the conclusion is true. We can assume by the premises that the argument would have to be true, due the subject, marijuana is a universal and cheap drug that can be used by anyone. In fact, there are laws that prevent the use of marijuana, so when the law tells society you can’t smoke marijuana, this only puts out a message of restriction and that doesn’t go well for listening. In conclusion, Blakeslee arriving on the conclusion that severe laws will only put more danger on those who use marijuana than
Crime declining would be one of the most infinite answer as to hat would happen if marijuana was legal. Drug cartels would not be able to operate because they couldn’t sell something that is already available in the market already. Its simple economics,in a free market state you create the supply and demand. With the demand of marijuana users being met there would be no point in the cartel even existing. Legalizing the drug would upset few but in particular drug cartels with a control in the market.
I do find it interesting what will the new tax laws will follow with the legalization of marijuana. Now could you say would this be a fair item to put heavy tax on? I think it would be fair but a lot of people would disagree the same with food or any other item. A lot of people wish gas was tax free, but those taxes go to the roads, would you prefer gas tax or pot holes? Would you prefer a whole bunch of people smoking weed or having it controlled and taxed so its not running ramped.
Those are our unalienable rights as an American.” Enoch Easter’s opinion was, “Why not legalize marijuana period? If you use it then good for you; if you don’t then that’s your decision. Some people actually might need medical marijuana for medical conditions, but hypocrites say bad things about it and try to make it seem that it’s morally wrong if you use it. If using medical marijuana or recreational marijuana is ok by your moral beliefs, then I believe you should be able to use it. It’s not the