Reddit reviews Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

> or that in won't make the problem worse

It will actually make the problem far worse in Mexico. If the Orange Clown got things his way, there would only be a few approved border crossings. This would limit the avenues for drug and human trafficking into the US. As a result, there would be a substantial increase in cartel violence over control of these points of entry.

This is exactly what turned Ciudad Juarez into a war zone. It was a battle to control one of the largest points of entry into the US.

Yes, the cartels that did not control the major points of entry, would find ways to smuggle contraband into the US, but it would not be via tractor trailers, but in back packs and through small tunnels.

There is an excellent book, detailing all of this - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel. I highly recommend it, if you are interested in learning more.

As someone who lives in Colorado, I can tell you the boom isn't just in industrial and commercial real estate. People have been flocking to the state by the thousands. This is in part to an economy that wasn't hit as hard by the recession, and that recovered faster. But also because of legalization. This is both good and bad. Property values have shot up, but with that cost of living, so it's a double edged sword.

The article addresses the concern over federal illegality, but fails to address what I feel to be the bigger threat to the industry, federal legalization. As Tom Wainwright discusses in his book Narconomics , federal legalization would result in the ability to import marijuana. This would allow companies to move their grow operations offshore (most likely Mexico or Central America) to capitalize on lower costs for both facilities and labor. Suddenly all of these big grow operations are unable to compete on price and justify these massive facilities. Cue warehouse real estate bubble burst.