Federal agents believe drug cartels are using the recent legalization of marijuana in Colorado as a front to make money illegally. Drug cartels have suffered major revenue losses following the legalization of recreational marijuana on January 1.
Federal agents believe Colorado’s legal marijuana business will become a target for drug cartels who’ve lost money as a result of the change in the law
Federal agents believe drug cartels have moved into Colorado and are using the recent legalization of marijuana within the state as a front to make money illegally.
Drug cartels – both from Columbia and Mexico – have suffered major revenue losses following the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado on January 1.
The Feds believe the gangs will now turn to the legal businesses in the state to find ways of making up for the shortfall in their profits.
‘Our intelligence tells us, and all indications are (drug cartels) are going to move in if they haven’t already,’ Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, told USA Today.
In 2012 the Mexican Competitiveness Institute issued a report saying that Mexico’s cartels would lose as much as $1.425 billion if Colorado legalized marijuana.
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