The legalization of marijuana in Colorado, and Washington cannot be ignored.
The marijuana market is currently a multibillion dollar industry that is controlled by countless criminal organizations. If legalized there would be no need to buy from criminal organizations such as the mexican cartels.
Our country is facing its biggest fiscal crisis since the great depression. If legalization is made a reality we as country would not only cripple organizations such as the cartels by taking business from them, but now a brand new market will be made, one that is taxable and will definitively help our country end the fiscal crisis that we are currently in.