South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog

CNN reports on the use of Sequoia National Forest by Mexican drug cartels to grow marijuana plants, and provide an interview with our fearless drug czar on scene. Apparently the cartels are using illegal immigrants to run the growing operations, in out of the way areas of the national forest.

As Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer Robert Guest and the NORML Blog point out, this is a disgusting example of government propaganda, hitting two panic buttons at once - 1) large quantities of that deadly marijuana being grown 2) by illegal immigrants!

If marijuana was legal, the drug cartels would not have immigrants parked in our national forests growing the stuff - as Robert Guest says, "last time I checked Mexican drug cartels were not using illegal immigrants to grow tobacco, or run moonshine stills. If you are really want to end these drug cartel pot farms in national parks, legalize pot."

The inane prohibition propaganda continues in the war on (people) drugs, with the nation's drug czar claiming that marijuana is a deadly addictive substance, and laying blame on Hollywood for glamorizing pot. The facts are there for everyone to see, but most people will continue to allow the government to feed these lies to them, without researching it themselves.

Is it possible that most people would sign up to ban anything, if it was described the way the government describes pot? Robert Guest points us to a video that illustrates how easy it is to get people to sign on when fear-based propaganda is used as a motivator: