Pubdate: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 Source: Dallas Morning News (TX) Copyright: 2005 The Dallas Morning News Contact: http://www.dallasnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/117 Author: Chris Largen Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis) DRUG PROFIT IS THE ISSUE Re: "Video offers brutal glimpse of drug cartel," Thursday news story. Prohibition is largely responsible for the existence of the violent drug cartellians. Consider that it costs the U.S. government a mere 30 cents an ounce to produce marijuana for an investigational drug program. That same ounce could fetch $300 on the black market. It's not the drugs that fuel the vast majority of "drug-related" violence. The lure and addiction of quick, easy profits motivate kidnappings, torture and brutality. Chris Largen Denton - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman