<p>If you don’t think the pot trade involves the worst of the dangerous urban gangs you are sadly mistaken. The Mexican drug cartels still earn the largest income from pot smuggled and sold in the USA. The also operate through or contract with some very very bad gangs in the US. MS 13 for one.</p>
<p>If it’s decriminalized and legalized, then it can legally be grown in the U.S. and that will cut the Mexican drug cartels out of the equation. Marijuana grows wild on the side of the road in Kansas.</p>
<p>If this were the craziest thing going on in that “backwater blemish” called Alabama on a daily basis, I’d be relieved.</p>
<p>Those are two big ifs.</p>
<p>Marijuana is a weed, but to grow medicinal quality requires indoors.</p>
<p>The cartels are against legalization.</p>
<p>[U.S</a>. Marijuana Laws Ricochet Through Latin America | TIME.com](<a href=“http://world.time.com/2013/01/07/u-s-marijuana-laws-ricochet-through-latin-america/]U.S”>U.S. Marijuana Laws Ricochet Through Latin America | TIME.com)</p>
<p>Now Bloomberg says that you can’t get a free 2 liter soda delivered with a pizza. You don’t have the freedom to drink what you want.</p>