Pubdate: Wed, 23 Nov 2011
Source: Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Copyright: 2011 C.E.G.W./Times-Shamrock
Contact:  http://www.metrotimes.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1381
Author: Robert Sharpe

Econ 101

Mexican drug cartels are no doubt thrilled with state Attorney General
Bill Schuette's efforts to undermine Michigan's voter-approved medical
marijuana law. As long as there is a demand for marijuana, there will
be a supply. This is basic economics. Replacing domestic growers with
organized crime groups that also sell cocaine, meth and heroin is not
necessarily a good thing. Marijuana prohibition is a gateway drug
policy. Your tax dollars at work.

- --Robert Sharpe, policy analyst, Common Sense for Drug Policy,
Washington, D.C.
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