Post Tagged with: "Marijuana"

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  [Press] Why Marijuana Will Be Legalized

  GAINESVILLE, Ga. / October 6, 2010 — Shocking headlines about drug-related violence on the U.S.-Mexican border and talk of marijuana legalization in California don’t surprise researchers at The Socionomics Institute.
   
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  [Article] The War Over Drugs: Is There Any End In Sight?

  “The Coming Collapse” compared drug-related violence in Mexico to Chicago’s gang wars of the 1930s. Wilson predicted a dramatic escalation in bloodshed and, eventually, cries for legalization to end the killing, just as happened with the earlier prohibition.
   
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  [Press] A New Al Capone?

  GAINESVILLE, Ga. / May 5, 2010 — Rethinking that trip to Mexico in light of mounting reports of drug-related violence? Don’t look for it to let up anytime soon.
   
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  [Article] The Coming Collapse of the Marijuana Prohibition

  History shows that mood governs society’s tolerance for recreational drugs. A rising social mood produces prohibition of substances such as alcohol and marijuana; a falling mood produces tolerance and relaxed regulation. In the case of alcohol, the path from prohibition to decriminalization became littered with corruption and violence as the government waged a failed war on traffickers. Eventually, as mood continued to sour, the government finally capitulated to public cries for decriminalization as a means to end the corruption and bloodshed.