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Sorry for my ignorance, since I'm living in Asia, and I have never deal with drugs, so my knowledge are basically from news.

How is this Prop19 will 'surely' change everything? Especially related to drug cartel.

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If people are allowed to buy, sell, and even grow their own drugs legally they will no longer have to participate in a black market that often benefits Mexican drug cartels.

Well I'm not sure if they can grow it. But, isn't that mean you're going to provide a legal way for the cartel to make money? Now they can sell in legal market, and sure more people will be able to consume it since it's legal now, and the cartel will make 'more' money?

My previous question is actually to find out what kind of measurement, precaution or whatever it is, to make sure that Prop19 will cripple drug cartels, without creating another problem.

Yes, Prop 19 will let you grow a small amount of marijuana for personal use. But it will certainly never be legal to smuggle drugs across the border.

Moreover the profit margins go way down because you are no longer covering the risk of arrest to those growing and supplying the drug.

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