Colorado and Washington to victory over Amsterdam. Two ballot measures approved Tuesday by U.S. states marijuana use not only entertainment, but also the legal form of the mass production and sales. It brings in unknown territory, and no one knows how to access legal drug in the U.S. drug trade, Mexico's cartel violence affect public health.
But the use of marijuana is still a federal crime, a reduction in violence on President Obama's vision of two states is likely.
The bill, it is illegal to cross state lines for drug transport. But if federal regulators in states decide not broken, it is much less expensive for Americans to buy marijuana from Mexico to Colorado can be. Every 100 miles from the border with Mexico drug cost is transferred increases to $ 450 per pound. Jonathan Caulkins, a professor of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh say that if you apply the same gradient as you from Colorado to New York State, who moved to New York is paying way below, ".
Group losses
Switching from U.S. grown cannabis drug cartels can deal a significant blow. Drug Policy RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California-based research center estimates that about 20 percent of research 'cartels smuggling marijuana accounts for revenue: $ 6 and $ 8 billion a center for study evaluated against Mexico It is estimated that Washington would cut $ 1.4 billion from legalization cartels profit from that published in October.
This, however, assumes that federal agents step in the first block interstate commerce, is to prevent the establishment of a national market. BEAU Kilmer of the RAND Corporation, said, "This is a scene where a couple of states will have an effect is difficult to imagine,".
But even if the cartels took a hit, it is not clear what effect it will have on border violence. Since Mexico's government cracked down on the drug trade began 10 years ago, drug-related killings in Mexico has increased eight times the rate for trafficking marijuana have changed a bit. cartels income cut them off, Caulkins said, but it just kind of kidnapping and human trafficking as a profitable form of crime can also can drive them.
"Obama is a difficult decision on his hands," Caulkins said. Administration in 2008, the state medical marijuana laws do not collide. But federal regulators medical marijuana dispensary on the West Bank recently, but using the drug for medicinal purposes on the alleged sale of these products have begun to close. Caulkins says that Congress "punished" for projects such as highways, cutting funds can imagine infuriated by the states.
Health Effects?
Most evidence shows that adverse health effects of cannabis use tobacco, alcohol, or hard drugs are a part of his. (International Journal of Drug Policy, doi.org/fvb2hq).
The researchers particularly close attention paid to the legalization will affect alcohol intake. "If you have hope, are used marijuana, alcohol use are down," Caulkins said. "This is a major breakthrough: Does alcohol cause many social evils." But it is also possible to use more marijuana than alcohol report will lead. Even a 10% change in the use of alcohol, either in one direction, the "marijuana can be compared with a great deal" will.
That alcohol and marijuana or other wildly over each other to serve as an alternative strengthen some studies, as "Read" Mark Kleiman of the University of California at Los Angeles said. "States this question has not been within a million miles."
And what about slope stability on hard drugs? Small amount of marijuana in the Netherlands in 1976 owned decriminalized, and legal pot easily across the country "have coffee shops. Scientific committee of the Dutch national drug monitoring agency vice president, Dirk Korf said that marijuana users are people who do not use drugs at all likely to use other drugs, but legal marijuana users are likely to do so illegally from consumers, either in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe., and cocaineproviders had to get marijuana from.
A common argument against legalization is that it will increase marijuana use itself. Dutch experience shows is: Dutch 18-year-old in 1970, 20 per cent used marijuana at least once was. , Decriminalization, 11 years later, in 1987 was 18 percent.
"There is no practical evidence that the legalization of marijuana usage is the coverage," Korf said. Or using drugs for a long time or have already started to lead people. For the first time a Dutch early adolescent marijuana users than average age in the U.S. is 19.6.
Jump into the lucrative U.S. market for some businesses with advertising, marketing, and other related laws, rules and regulations - such as the drug can be sold in bars as everything - into market are required. Caulkins predicted that we as the Amsterdam coffee shops or gummy bears ganja weed themed novelties such a blast to watch as producers seek to differentiate their products.
Kleiman activation state legalization could be a good laboratory, said. If the legislation shows that a disaster, feds can step in and end the experience. However, it is only one way to find out about the public health implications are for, say. "This is a problem, we can solve theoretically is not."
