North America is the world's largest cannabis market and most of its cannabis is homegrown. The U.S. market alone has been valued at more than $10-billion. As Canadians are starting to discover, a market that size inevitably attracts organized crime. So cannabis is a security threat as well as a health risk.
It is a security threat and a magnet to crime precisely because it is illegal. Duh.
18 posted on 08/06/2006 6:34:16 AM PDT by dirtboy
(Why does Israel take border security seriously but we do not, when Islamists wish us both harm?)
20 posted on 08/06/2006 6:36:53 AM PDT by Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)