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LZ Granderson: Marijuana isn't fueling cartels. US laws drive the violence

Officers clear an illegal grow operation in California’s Siskiyou County in 2021.

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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