How The U.S. Desire For Drugs Fuels Wars

Mexican drug traffickers are growing millions of marijuana plants
in California's vast national parks Photo: AP

California's Pot Plants Earn Mexican Drug Gangs Billions -- The Telegraph

Mexican drug traffickers are growing millions of marijuana plants in California's vast national parks, exploiting the embattled state's sweeping cutbacks in its police forces.

The authorities have already seized more than a million cannabis plants this year – worth up to $4 billion (£2.4 billion) – and the growing season is not even half over.

Officials concede that for every plant they find, dozens of others escape detection.

While the criminals are becoming harder to catch, they are also becoming more brazen – increasingly growing their plants close to homes and camping sites, and refusing to flee the area when the authorities arrive.

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My Comment: Forget about the drug battles that are occurring in Mexico, Americans should look at themselves.

Unfortunately, I think that with time we will have no choice but to look at what the drug war is bringing to the home front. At the present time the U.S. is experiencing a drug war that claims and imprisons scores of people every day, but it has not reached the levels of Mexico or Colombia .... yet.

Will that day come .... I do not know. Law enforcement and education have clearly failed. Another way must be found. But when that day will come .... my guess is as good as the next person's analysis on this crisis.

In the meantime .... the drug trade (and war) continues.