The Invisible Hand

It’s almost as though we’d have to put it out in comic book form for them to understand it. They need the pictures, I guess.

Stiff competition from thousands of America’s mom-and-pop marijuana farmers threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law-enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.

Marijuana production in the United States has been increasing steadily for decades. But recent changes in state laws that allow the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes are giving U.S. growers a competitive advantage, challenging the traditional dominance of Mexican traffickers who once made brands such as Acapulco Gold the standard for quality.

Almost all marijuana consumed in the multibillion-dollar U.S. market once came from Mexico or Colombia. As much as half now is produced domestically, often by small-scale operators who painstakingly tend greenhouses and indoor gardens to produce the more potent, and expensive, product that consumers now demand, according to authorities and marijuana dealers on both sides of the border.

It’s that damn invisible hand of the free market again!

Make a better product and people will pay more for it and refuse the lesser product, making the producer of the better product richer and he of the lesser product poorer.

If they want to ditch the south of the border cartels altogether, along with a large percentage of the crime they bring with them: End marijuana prohibition.

Enterprising people will be growing it in their back yards. The lazy will just buy it from them and the Mexican cartels can eat Chupacabra droppings.