How would legalizing marijuana affect drug war at San Diego's border?
Over the past few decades, the U.S. has spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to stem the flow of drugs from the Mexican border.
San Diego is on the front lines of that battle: filling in underground tunnels, taking down smuggling organizations, prosecuting corrupt border officers, freezing money-laundering operations and seizing loads of illegal drugs that come in by semi, car, person, boat and even drone.
By far, marijuana has historically been the cash crop traffickers have depended on.
So what happens if California voters decide to legalize recreational marijuana on Nov. 8? Would a legal marijuana market cut into the profits of the Mexican drug cartels enough to cripple them? Or would it make it easier for traffickers to grow pot in the United States under the shadow of legitimacy?
The answers are a game of speculation, experts acknowledge, although recent drug-smuggling trends and the experiences of other states that have pioneered recreational...
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