Legalization advocates argued that making the drug trade legal would end the grip of the cartels.
Violence too was predicted to disappear after legalization.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Instead, the legal market has failed and the cartels are taking over sizable parts of California as well as the rest of the country.
Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up too.
Earlier this year, six men were murdered in the Mojave desert. Four of the Latino men had been burned after being shot with rifles. In 2020, seven people were killed at an illegal pot operation in Riverside County.
California’s legal drug revenues have fallen consistently as have those in other legal drug states including Colorado whose model helped sell the idea that drug money would fix everything.
Despite falling revenues, Colorado legislators brag about…
