with pornography. Hit 'em in their weak spot. As far as who's responsible for where Israel's hash comes from, it's of course the drug warriors themselves. They're too busy using alcohol to bother to even try to explain why they can use alcohol but other good folks can't use cannabis. Who's gonna respect a law that is ludicrously unfair? Look in the mirror guys.

But if Israel is really concerned about local potheads putting money in Hezbollah's hands, it could solve that problem by allowing domestic, regulated cultivation of cannabis.

Now now your talking all logical and shit.. Stop that.

As you can see, the world is ramping up to wipe out cannabis use. There is no longer so called zones of tolleration. Somebody has figured out that black market pot production is performed by the criminal elements of society who will readily join up any organization that is basically against the government. This formula is true in the middle east as it is in the urban cores of America...Where people rountinely break the law _ anyhow- armed gangs and dope are part of the social response equasion.

For every front line terror rifleman shooting- there are a dozen softer impact confderates supplying his ammunition, food. bed and escape routes. same for the dope gangs in America- for every front line pot dealer out there, - there are a dozen soft impact confederates backing him up- the grower, the manicurist, the transporter, the border crosser.. This cannabis black market system is already in place- Making pot legal would not do away with a black market- it would just attract more players and flood the market with product.

And as Adam Smith would put it: " reduced overall opportunities as new merchants appear "- there would likely be escalated new violence as not exactly fair player grey market dealers step up efforts eliminate any interlopers as well as upgrade their firepower aimed at the police.

In short -evidence suggests any gesture towards legal pot at this stage of the game in America would just make things worse. Much worse.

It's too late to legalize marijuana in America- the window for ant rasonable compromise is closed. Here comes yet another decade of cannabis chaos because most human beings do not want to see marijuana prevail . Prohibition as much as you might not approve of it is indeed winning, slowly but surely. Maybe adjust your expectations for the decade ahead.

Of course cannabis is linked to terrorism by governments. After all, fuels and medicines from cannabis strikes terror into the hearts of fossil fuel and pharmaceutical executives.

That's why the drug "czar" with his unconstitutional title of nobility, of a cruel and despotic ruler, seeks to promote that message. Government sees its job as protecting the Lords of Loot from any competition from renewable and sustainable alternatives.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

— Thomas Jefferson

The most important thing that depends on is probably the price of legal, and presumably taxed cannabis. If the price is too high this post above is absolutely right, but if the tax is reasonable the gangs won't be able to compete.
I'm concerned about what the drug gangs will do after prohibition too, I think an amnesty for dealers who declare their illegal and untaxed income will be necessary to keep them from using their immense firepower to create even more grief than they're doing now. Maybe I'm wrong.

marijuana prohibition increases prices and profits, this gives bad people the incentives to grow it, sell it, and fund their paramilitaries

find me a good or service that cannot be performed equally by both the taxed market and black market, besides, cannabis is easy to grow outside and nobody who had property and security to grow it would ever need to buy it

smoking cannabis is inefficient and unhealthy, the best way is to make oils with it and ingest it, in this way, a little bit goes a long way

The truth of the matter is- that Drugs do fund terrorism. This is not propaganda. Literally dozens of tons of hash from the Bekaa valley finds its way into Israel every year over their northern bordern and dozens more from the Sinai creeps over the fence to the south.

Israel is a commuter state for not only drugs, but people, guns, and all sorts of other things.

Of course logic should prevail and more allowed to grow pot, thus eliminating the hash trade in Lebanon and the pot growing fields of the Sinai that fund Hezbollah and Hamas.

Buying pot in Israel is not only expensive, but truly a way to support killing your brother. Shitty situation.