Weedo

Articles from legit (Reuters) and illegitimate (Murdoch WSJ) news sources abound regarding the potential full scale legalization of marijuana in California. Despite being from one of the illegit news sources, the graphic below espouses the pros and cons. On the one hand all of those arrests are costing a lot of taxpayer dollars, the spike in SoCal points to the influence of Mexican drug cartels operating on the wrong side of the border on their own or through alliances with American gangs, and there is clearly demand for the product which could equal crazy government revenue for an insane deficit situation.

But on the other hand, what happens to the people whose plants disappeared as a result of these raids? And by people I mean gangs. With guns. Who kill people. Especially when their source of income dries up. Something to consider.