California's legal drug revenues have fallen consistently as have those in other legal drug states including Colorado whose model helped sell the idea that drug money would fix everything.
While the legal drug business is also collapsing in California, the state is spending a fortune fighting marijuana even as it tries to tax it.
"Proposition 64, California's 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug's outlaw trade, with its associated violence and environmental wreckage. Instead," the Los Angeles Times warned two years ago.
Not only California, but places as far afield as Maine that have large open areas and limited law enforcement resources, have been overrun by drug operations that more closely resemble parts of Latin America and Asia than the USA. The coasts, from Southern California up to Oregon, are controlled by Mexican cartels which have expanded so much that they're running short of workers even during the Biden open borders boom.
A local California DA described "Mexican cartel groups coming up to grow pot, and people from Bulgaria, France and Russia." The vast exodus across the border has made it possible for cartels to freely bring in any workers they want through even as drug legalization and open borders effectively ended any real penalties for either illegal migration or marijuana.
Chinese organized crime had "Taken over marijuana in Oklahoma and the United States," the head of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs revealed.
Drug legalization increased homelessness and drug abuse.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/california-legalized-drugs-cartels-took-it-over/
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