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Will legalizing pot affect violence in Latin America?

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sat, 04/11/2015 - 08:33

The debate of whether or not to legalize marijuana in the U.S. is not just a national one, Latin American leaders are weighing in on it too.

That’s because U.S. marijuana consumption drives drug violence in their countries.  Armed Honduran military police escort us to the most dangerous neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, a city dubbed the “murder capital of the world.”

The gang comes in and charges every resident a war tax they call it, it’s simply extortion.  Painful choices for residents: Pay the phony tax, leave or face the wrath of the gangs.

Similar fears haunt communities in other Latin American countries also plagued by violent criminal gangs, whose power is connected to the drug trade.

In El Salvador, the lawless MS13, in Mexico the ruthless cartels.  At the Summit of the Americas in Panama, Latin American leaders will discuss the drug war. A potential new concern comes...

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