Essay About Violent Mexican Drug Cartels And Massive Quantities Of Marijuana

Violent Mexican Drug Cartels
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Violent Mexican drug cartels continue trafficking massive quantities of marijuana into the United States,
and each cartel reportedly earns up to $2 billion annually by pushing their drugs into America. Its been said
before and it will be said many times again, but something must be done to put a stop to the cartels. “Marijuana is
by far the most seized drug at the Southwest border, and it serves as the cash cow of the drug cartels in Mexico,”
according to Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne (Freedman, 2011). In fact the amount of
marijuana seized along the Southwest border has increased by 44% between 2005 and 2009, Payne reports
through the Beaumont Enterprise newspaper.
One positive step that should be taken to reduce the trafficking of thousands of tons of Mexican marijuana
across the U.S. – Mexican border each year is to dramatically diminish the American demand for Mexican
marijuana. Legalizing the drug in the United States could accomplish that. Legal marijuana would seriously cut
into the violent drug cartels profit machines, and could potentially raise billions in tax revenues that the U.S.
sorely needs to reduce the multi-trillion-dollar federal deficit and fund other urgently needed human services.
Meanwhile, when marijuana is legal in the U.S., the violent drug cartels in Mexico – lawless, bloodthirsty
gangs that slaughter innocent people and stack beheaded bodies along side the Mexican highways just to prove
they can do it – will have lost a big percentage of their illegal profits. Efforts to put a stop to the trafficking of
marijuana across the nations borders have mostly failed thus far. There are new and potentially helpful strategies,
like the use of drones (un-manned airplanes that have video cameras and are guided by computers on the ground)
that fly over both sides of the border and eavesdrop on dubious activities. Technicians on the ground receive the
life video feed from the drone and when drug runners (or other suspicious activities) are seen, that information is
relayed immediately to law enforcement (Border Patrol personnel).
An article in the Independent on March 17 reports that the Mexican government has agreed to allow U.S.-
made drones to “fly over its territory to gather intelligence on drug traffickers,” the article states. This is actually
an expansion of the U.S. role in the effort to halt the previously unhindered flow of drugs into the U.S. The
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