Jury convicts Mexican trafficker of agent's murder

“If convicted of second degree murder, Navarro faces life in prison.”

Another illegal we’re providing with 3 square meals per day, HBO, etc.

“Looked similiar” should be good enough. Particularly if several witnesses said it and particularly if he has a previous record of drug smuggling. These border issues are just too big and too frequent to be quibbleing about the letter of the law. We need to streamline the trials in order to get the criminals out of circulation. If an occasional innocent person gets wrongly convicted that’s the price we’ll have to pay for preventing the countless additional murders that clogged up courts and mistaken acquittals will result in.

This violence is caused by the cartels having no legal competition to their marijuana sales. Although intended to protect children from marijuana, the federal marijuana prohibition instead creates an environment of zero legal supply amidst massive and unrelenting demand, which effectively serves to make all of us LESS safe.

The prohibition costs taxpayers $40 billion a year, generates 700,000 marijuana-related arrests every year, diverts $10 billion to the Mexican drug cartels each year, has caused the death of more than 35,000 people in Mexico over just the last four years, and lures drug dealers into our neighborhoods to sell their stinking weed to our children. And the worst of it all is that it doesn’t even stop kids from using marijuana!

We need legal adult marijuana sales in supermarkets, gas stations and pharmacies for exactly the same reason that we need legal alcohol and tobacco sales – to keep unscrupulous black-market criminals out of our neighborhoods and away from our children. Marijuana should be legal to sell to adults everywhere that alcohol and tobacco are sold.

This violence is caused by the cartels having no legal competition to their marijuana sales. Although intended to protect children from marijuana, the federal marijuana prohibition instead creates an environment of zero legal supply amidst massive and unrelenting demand, which effectively serves to make all of us LESS safe.

The prohibition costs taxpayers $40 billion a year, generates 700,000 marijuana-related arrests every year, diverts $10 billion to the Mexican drug cartels each year, has caused the death of more than 35,000 people in Mexico over just the last four years, and lures drug dealers into our neighborhoods to sell their stinking weed to our children. And the worst of it all is that it doesn’t even stop kids from using marijuana!

We need legal adult marijuana sales in supermarkets, gas stations and pharmacies for exactly the same reason that we need legal alcohol and tobacco sales – to keep unscrupulous black-market criminals out of our neighborhoods and away from our children. Marijuana should be legal to sell to adults everywhere that alcohol and tobacco are sold.