Those are some areas this will affect.
But there is one I came across that is frankly scary.
Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of the US. And Mexico has a huge problem with this. So, how does Prop 19 play into this?
How about that the drug cartels won’t care if the pot profits disappear, they will just move up to kidnappings instead. They may do this in time, anyway. But Prop 19 just might make that come on the scene that much earlier.
YIKES!!!
As far as I’m concerned, the cartels and the violence they promulgate will have to be met with absolutely ultraviolent, no rules of engagement vigilante squads equipped with mini-guns and close air support. I’m totally serious. That is, if there’s the actual mandate to combat them, which I doubt.
It may well be that we will have to construct a barrier on the border much like Israel has done, complete with concrete barrier and exclusion zones.
Human trafficking, heroin, cocaine and weapons are already on the scene and have been for some time. Those things are a much bigger part of the Mexican cartels than pot ever has been. My suspicion is that a wholesale slaughter of Mexican cartel members is going to happen in the not too distant future.