[420 Girl]

Marijuana use in America drives the drug export trade in Mexico, making markets for drug cartels whose competition for market share erupts in gang warfare. Tad Trueblood has been ahead of the rest of the media on this issue, having called our attention to the Mexican drug violence several months before it became lately popular. However, Mr. Trueblood conspicuously refrained from offering a solution.

Bill O'Reilly has no such diffidence, insisting that all we need do is seal the borders, erecting a wall through which the smoke of burning grass cannot blow, a wall large enough that illegal immigrants may not leap over, manned with sharpshooters to pick off any who might try anyway. To conservatives, this solution has the advantage of simplicity and violence. However, the costs loom too large for the prospect of success. Besides we cannot decide the building material for the wall, bamboo or iron? Does the picture of shutting ourselves up in a self-made prison seem lovely to anyone?

This solution has never been seriously considered while the illegal immigrants have constituted such an essential part of our economy, both as consumers and cheap laborers. However, lately conservative desire to expel the alien seems less compelling, our nation's economic problems having created a strong incentive for illegals to return home. But what are they going to do without work in their native country? Get involved in the drug trade? The drug wars might intensify.

The problem is that the USA already has 25 percent of the entire world's prison population. If we achieve a too much higher market share of prisoners, the European Union might accuse us of attempts to monopolize.

My proposal is to declare defeat in the war on marijuana, admitting that most people do not believe its use is guilty, then tax legalized marijuana like a CEO's bonus income, mount an advertising campaign to inform of its dangers and redouble our other drug enforcement efforts to block the bridge over to more serious drugs. Many illegals can then go home, grow their own marijuana and sell it wholesale to Wal-Mart.

Everybody should be happy and as Democrats feel the urge to pay more taxes they don't have to raise income tax rates. They can just go buy a pack of Camel MJ with a 110 percent federal tax, get high and get over their obsession with the evils of capitalism and global warming.

Not to worry about too many tuned out citizens. If this marijuana amnesty program becomes so popular that pot smoke fills the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, the EPA can mandate a cap and trade program whereby each American is allotted a certain amount of marijuana smoke. Those who wish to exceed their allocation must buy smoke rights from those who do not indulge. Utah, having a high percentage of teetotalers and of those who care little about air pollution, will enjoy a particular advantage, a mushrooming of tourist dollars as California potheads stream here to get a Wasatch Mountain high.

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