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Colorado pot shops likely targets of cartels, say experts
FOX News ^ | jANUARY 10, 2014 | By Joseph J. Kolb

Posted on 01/11/2014 12:49:10 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

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Roughly 60 percent of profits earned by Mexican drug cartels comes from the U.S. marijuana market. Without federal legalization marijuana trade in places like Colorado will remain in a legal no man's land, attracting both Mexican and domestic criminals. Federal legalization would allow an interstate market for these products and their full commercialization. I'm talking about a product resembling a pack of cigarettes or a box of cookies rather than some storefront with psychedelic posters and incense, with licensing and taxation from the farm to the retailer.
1 posted on 01/11/2014 12:49:10 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Gosh. Ya think? Who saw that one coming?


2 posted on 01/11/2014 12:50:31 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Be interesting to see what happens now.


3 posted on 01/11/2014 12:52:03 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It’s starting to look as though this “recreational” marijuana bull**** is about to get ugly. Good luck Colorado! Don’t forget! “Legalize it and then tax the hell our of it!” LOL!


4 posted on 01/11/2014 12:53:34 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where are Holder's "po folks" getting the I.D.s to sign up for ObamaCare?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

"Do I even need to say it?"

5 posted on 01/11/2014 12:53:53 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Bulwyf

It looks like once again the the Law of Unintended Consequences is ready to rear it’s ugly head.


6 posted on 01/11/2014 12:57:26 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: Dutch Boy

I’d say. I also think if they just left the drugs alone, you’d kill the drug trade. It’s up to us parents to teach our kids right.


7 posted on 01/11/2014 1:00:00 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Legalization will put them out of business. /s


8 posted on 01/11/2014 1:00:33 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Bulwyf

A good number of parents are toking it up with their kids.


9 posted on 01/11/2014 1:02:54 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Holder likes none of this.

I’d say if there are “cartel hits” on such stores it’s likely in fact it was HOLDER’S GUYS.

Like Fast & Furious, yup.

OH SURE THE HITS WILL BE FROM “CARTELS”.

GayMuzzie is mobbed up on the sly with the Sinaloa.

If someone bursts in and robs these places and kills people inside, I’d say it’s the DOJ, even if they’re not in uniform.


10 posted on 01/11/2014 1:02:56 PM PST by gaijin
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To: dfwgator

I will never understand that.

I guess it will separate the users from the non users, when something is easy and legal and cheap to get, it’ll be abused.


11 posted on 01/11/2014 1:05:01 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Brad from Tennessee; george76

Boy, I sure am glad that the Colorado democrats voted to pass those gun control bills last year.
At least we’ll all be safer now that people can only carry 15-round bullet clips (That are unusable after a single use), have to run CBI firearm background checks to sell to your neighbor in his garage, and PAY for the check.
/Sarcasm

Anyone know how I could go about finding all firearm-related crimes that have occurred since these STOOPID gun control laws were enacted July 1, 2013? Is there a law enforcement site to look these stats up?

Colorado PING to George76


12 posted on 01/11/2014 1:06:48 PM PST by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Legalize home grown weed and all these clowns go out of business.


13 posted on 01/11/2014 1:08:41 PM PST by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I doubt the consumers of overpriced legal marijuana will put a dent in the Mexican’s wholesale trafficking business model.

Pot shops and their zonked out customers have more to be worried about from takeover robberies by assorted local criminal lowlifes than any international cartel.


14 posted on 01/11/2014 1:09:11 PM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yeah, like the way the Mafia went out of business after Prohibition was repealed in 1933, right?


15 posted on 01/11/2014 1:09:21 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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Legalize home grown weed and all these clowns go out of business.

If you're going to legalize it, then yes, that would be the way to go.

16 posted on 01/11/2014 1:12:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The joint is the Girl Scout Cookie of the future. I can see it now, little girls showing up at the door selling refer. They can also have a line of accessories, bongs, lighters, pipes and rolling papers.


17 posted on 01/11/2014 1:12:08 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

What a harmonic convergence it would have been if the state had succeeded in taking people’s guns away.


18 posted on 01/11/2014 1:13:18 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Legalize it and then tax the hell out of it!

And don't forget control its strength and blend it with additives.

Part of the allure of illegal drugs is that they're illegal. It won't be surprising if drug cartels turn legal marijuana users on to something more potent and not legal.

19 posted on 01/11/2014 1:14:22 PM PST by grania
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To: mac_truck

Wouldn’t surprise me if a significant percentage of the rope they smoke in Colorado was domestically grown anyways.


20 posted on 01/11/2014 1:14:23 PM PST by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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