Marijuana

This November California has on a ballot a proposition that would make it legal to smoke marijuana even if you don't need it for medical reasons. Many people are falling for the argument that if we legalize this drug the drug war in Mexico is somehow going to disappear. This will not happen, it will have the opposite effect, and here is why. Drug cartels are like a business, they sell a product and have competition. If a drug they are selling is legalized, they just lost a huge part of their business, and it forces them to move to a different drug to stay alive. This makes more competition in that specific drug industry, and competition in this business means more deaths. We may wish that this was an easy solution to the drug war, but the cartels like their jobs, if they didn't they wouldn't be doing it, so they aren't going to walk away so easily.