‘Getting Worse, Not Better’: Illegal Pot Market Booming in California Despite Legalization
Summary
Last year California legalized marijuana in the state as an experiment to try to decrease the amount of illegal drug use. Raids in the forests of Northern California expose around 500 pounds of marijuana that is traded each day, worth over $1 M in drugs per day. Officials say that the illegal business hasn't shrunk, but instead expanded throughout the state. A point of this legalization was to decrease the police presence for minor infractions, but now politicians are calling for stronger crackdown on illegal selling. Not only politicians but legal weed farmers and distributors in the country are calling for more regulation of black market trade because it is hurting the legalized business.
Analysis
The article was written on Saturday, April 27th, 2019. This relates to the past when the US government passed the 18th and 21st Amendment to the constitution. The 18th amendment prohibited alcohol from being transported, consumed, etc in the United States. The banning of these goods actually led more people to use them, ignoring the amendment and causing more damage than before. The 21st Amendment was passed to repeal the 18th amendment so that alcohol was legal again in America. The audience of this article is all Americans because we should be interested in how the government regulations and experiments are going in other states because it could be carried into our states as well and we need to know the consequences and positives of the regulations.
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