Sacramento Escorts: LEGALIZING POT — AND HOPING THE TOOTH FAIRY IS REAL
For the past several years Elk Grove has tried with little success to combat the widespread practice by pot growers of renting vacant homes and filling them to the rafters with indoor drug gardens. City officials will likely confirm that it’s a whole lot easier to eradicate the practice before it starts than after the camel is fully inside the tent. The gardens, of course, are not independent operations; they are owned and operated by the cartels, who are not shy about moving into new markets.
Speaking of the cartels, do we really believe that legalizing marijuana for recreational use will cut the cartels out of the market? Did the mob leave Nevada because gambling and prostitution was made legal? A study by the state’s Board of Equalization predicts a 50% drop in price and a 40% hike in usage should the drug become legally acceptable. That is because the price of manufacture and distribution will drop dramatically; the current suppliers have proven very effective in dealing with competition from the less well armed, and disinclined to abandon a profitable enterprise for any reason. The state cannot cut them out.