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The \"War on Drugs\" has been a massive failure. But there is a new force in the market, marijuana legalization. The war on drugs was a massive campaign that began stirring in\nAmerican politics way back in 1914 and was popularized by President\nNixon\nand, later, President George H. W. Bush. This war on drugs has been an\nexpensive and tragically ineffective\nprogram\nthat costs the American people approximately $500 each\nsecond.

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While the war on drugs has historically been meant to discourage and\nblock the distribution and use of recreational drugs, it has actually\nhad the reverse\neffect.\nAs the war on drugs has escalated in both expense and intensity, the\nprice placed on illegal drugs has skyrocketed in places like Mexico.

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This has resulted in more drug-related fighting resulting in 85,000\npeople\nbeing killed in Mexico alone since 2006 when then-President Felipe\nCalderón signed-off on a military response to drug cartels. It has also\nresulted in no fewer drugs crossing the American border - with one\nnotable exception. The exception is marijuana and the reason for this is\nthe widespread legalization of the plant throughout the United States.

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So, is it possible that we're actually discouraging smugglers from\ntransporting and growing marijuana... by legalizing it? The answer is\nyes and, so far, legalization has proven to be a far more effective\nstrategy to discourage illegal drug cartels than the War on Drugs has\never been.

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Here's what you need to know.

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Legalization and Crashing Drug Prices

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Before the legalization of marijuana in the U.S., most cannabis bought\nand sold here had been grown in and smuggled from Mexico. This drove the\nprice of marijuana in Mexico to historic heights - at one time up to\n$90 for a\nkilogram.

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Those exorbitant cannabis prices had a wider effect than many people\nthink. In addition to encouraging Mexican drug lords to continue in\ntheir brutal and illegal industries, high cannabis prices also torpedoed\nthe Mexican government's attempt to help citizens build local economies\nby growing legal crops. Because the financial prospect of growing and\nselling marijuana was so appealing, many Mexican citizens gravitated\ntoward it (and, ergo, toward the dangerous job of working for the\nCartels).

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Today, however, the price of marijuana has dropped, which has thrown the\nMexican cartels into dire straits. This, in turn, has led to much less\ncannabis crossing the border via Mexican smugglers. According to a\nreport by Time\nMagazine, the\nU.S. Border Patrol seized 2.5 million pounds of Marijuana in 2011. By\n2014, that number had dipped to 1.9 million pounds. This decline doesn't\nhave much to do with the War on Drugs, however. Instead, it's due to the\nlegalization of marijuana across the U.S.

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How American Legalization has Destroyed Mexican Demand

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As affordable, legal marijuana becomes more prevalent in the U.S., the\ndemand for smuggled marijuana from Mexico has fallen flat on its face.\nIn 2008, roughly\ntwo-thirds of\nall the cannabis consumed by U.S. citizens was imported from Mexico.\nToday, that number has fallen to roughly one-third. Likewise, cannabis\naccounted for 20%-30% of the Mexican drug cartels' revenue as recently\nas 2008.

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As legalization has swept the U.S., though, these numbers have\nplummeted. Now that there is plenty of quality, affordable marijuana\navailable legally to consumers in the U.S., there's virtually no need to\npurchase expensive varieties from Mexico which are almost certainly\nlinked to violent cartel activity.

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In what is possibly one of the largest victories linked to the American\nlegalization of cannabis, Mexico itself is now considering adopting laws\nlike the U.S. has, which would decriminalize or legalize\ncannabis in\ncertain settings. If these laws go through, it would represent the final\nstraw for the powerful and dangerous cartels in Mexico - decimating\ntheir profits and obliterating the demand for their products.

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The Future of Legalization and Mexican Marijuana: Why Pending States Should Follow California's Lead

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As waves of legalization continue to sweep the U.S., it stands to reason\nthat we'll keep seeing a decline in the price of, and demand for,\nmarijuana from Mexico. Despite the fact that the Federal Government has\nspent upwards of $15 billion on the War on Drugs since 2010 alone, it's\nclear that this approach has never been the most effective one.

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In addition to making marijuana rare, and thus increasing the demand and\nprice of the product, the War on Drugs has only allowed the Mexican\ncartels to be more brutal than ever before.

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Because of this, legalization is the only thing that truly has the\npotential to put the cartels out of business. When quality cannabis is\navailable to consumers from right here in the U.S., the demand for\nMexican products falls sharply. Because of this, states like\nIllinois,\nFlorida, Georgia, Kansas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin (all of\nwhich have pending marijuana\nlegislation\non the ballot for 2016) would be well-served to follow California's lead\nto make medicinal cannabis easily accessible to consumers. This year\nCalifornia too has legalization as a initiative on the November ballot.

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In addition to being the most common-sense approach to destroying the\ndrug crime that's been running rampant in Mexico for the last several\nyears, improving consumer access to legalized marijuana is one of the\nbest ways for U.S. lawmakers and citizens to further deplete the Mexican\nmarijuana market. With California as a model to follow, legalizing\nmarijuana throughout all states is an efficient way for U.S. lawmakers\nto ensure that drug crime, high marijuana prices, violence, and\ndestroyed economies become a thing of the past in Mexico.

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