Now that Obama has caused the price of pot to skyrocket, we can fire up the 1000 watt lights again.

[Warren DeMontague]

50. No, actually, I don't believe very many Americans -even the morons- are smoking shitty mex weed.

I think it's possible that undocumented Mexicans in the US are smoking some of that shitty mex weed, but even those numbers are probably going down too.

The drug violence in Central America is almost entirely driven by cocaine. Oh, I know, "Drugz is Drugz is Drugz, at least that's what they told me in DARE class"... except, they're not. To suggest that a hippie at a Widespread Panic show is somehow contributing to central american violence by smoking buds from Mendocino or Humboldt county, is just asinine--- but it reflects the increasing desperation with which some are struggling to scrape together any sort of rational narrative for an obviously unjust, idiotic policy, i.e. the drug war.

And what is "driving the violence", at the core, is the exact same thing that produced Al Capone and tommygun-wielding gangsters in the 1920s.

Prohibition, pure and simple.