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
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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
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