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So far, no modern country has ever legalized marijuana productionnot even the Netherlands. Yet with heavy drug-related violence plaguing the U.S.-Mexican border, some analysts and policymakers now say that America should legalize weed in order to reduce the power of Mexicos drug cartels.
Marijuana carries the least amount of overhead cost for many of the cartels and provides some of their cash flow for buying guns and influence. Estimates vary, but analysts say pot accounts for somewhere in the range of 20 to 50 percent of the cartels profits. But that could soon change with competition from El Norte: California has a proposition set for the November balloton which voters are roughly splitthat would legalize the drugs domestic production and sale.
How Legalized Pot Could Hurt Mexico's Cartels - Newsweek