{"id":1804,"date":"2020-08-12T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2020-08-13T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:58:09","slug":"another-lie-legalizing-pot-stops-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Another Lie:  Legalizing Pot Stops Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The marijuana legalization debate has been over for a while in many parts of the country.\u00a0 Recreational pot is legal in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Illinois, Colorado, Alaska, Michigan, <span class=\"st\">Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine.\u00a0 Medical marijuana is legal in 19 states, and possession has been decriminalized in most others.\u00a0 When states were considering legalization, advocates made several appealing promises.\u00a0 One of the most effective of these was that once pot was legalized, the illegal drug trade would die off and law more enforcement resources could\u00a0 be focused on serious crime. \u00a0 That turned out to be a lie. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Over the past few years we have reported on numerous drug busts involving the smuggling of illegal pot into the country and the cultivation of illegal pot in suburban homes, national forests, and rural areas across the country.\u00a0\u00a0 This is happening because government regulated pot is more expensive and less potent than illegal pot.\u00a0 People who stumble across an illegal pot farm are occasionally killed, as are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/crime\/end-of-watch\/el-dorado-county-deputies-shot-at-responding-to-call-south-of-placerville-sheriff-says\/103-6660b843-1794-4662-8573-cf4a4b525700\">police<\/a> investigating such grows. \u00a0<\/span> Teri Figueroa of the Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-08-11\/agents-seize-630-pounds-meth-940-pounds-marijuana-drug-busts\">reports<\/a> on three drug busts which occurred over the past weekend.\u00a0 Federal agents in California caught smugglers with 630 lbs of methamphetamine and roughly 1\/2 ton of marijuana. \u00a0 As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/27\/us\/marijuana-california-legalization.html\">reported<\/a> last year in the New York Times, if anything, the illegal market has expanded since pot has been legalized.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready for progressives to call for legalizing meth to stop drug gangs from smuggling it into the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marijuana legalization debate has been over for a while in many parts of the country.\u00a0 Recreational pot is legal in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Illinois, Colorado, Alaska, Michigan, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine.\u00a0 Medical marijuana is legal in 19 states, and possession has been decriminalized in most others.\u00a0 When states were considering legalization, advocates made several appealing promises.\u00a0 One of the most effective of these was that once pot was legalized, the illegal drug trade would die off and law more enforcement resources could\u00a0 be focused on serious crime. \u00a0 That turned out to be a lie. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another Lie: Legalizing Pot Stops Smuggling - Crime &amp; 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