LZ Granderson: Marijuana isn't fueling cartels. US laws drive the violence
by LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times
Feb 07, 2024
3 minutes
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Police found six people shot to death last week near U.S. Highway 395 — roughly 50 miles outside of Los Angeles. The gruesome scene was another example of the kind of violence that shadows illegal marijuana operations in California and beyond.
In 2020, in a rural community in Riverside County. In 2021, but also dismembered and burned in the Emerald Triangle in Northern California. All the deaths were somehow connected to illegal pot, some involving a cartel, explaining why many of the
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