Linda Valdez of the conservative Arizona Republic newspaper in the sunday 'VIEWPOINTS' section argued for the legalization of Marijuana:
Imagine you had a really smart bomb-a genius bomb-that could blow up the leaders of every drug cartel in Mexico.
By the time the smoke cleared, a new pusher would be sitting in every cartel's big chair and the distribution networks would continue satisfying the demand of every junkie and recreational drug user in America.
Mexico's drug cartels would continue to be, in the words of the Justice Department's National Drug Threat Assessment for 2009, "the greatest drug-trafficking threat to the United States."
Now, imagine a different weapon.
Consider the impact of eliminating the most profitable product the cartels sell.
All we have to do is legalize marijuana.
http://www.azcentral.com/...
Saying I was stunned when I saw this article in the Arizona Republic would be a lie, I was too stoned to be stunned (bah dam boom!). But seriously folks this is a good sign. Maybe sanity has a chance after all.