Mexican marijuana farmers see profits tumble as U.S. loosens laws

Mexican marijuana farmers see profits tumble as U.S. loosens laws

NewsTaco January 4, 2016

*Wasn’t this part of the calculus to begin with? Decriminalize pot, eliminate the profit incentive for drug dealers? VL By Deborah Bponello, The Los Angeles Times He started growing marijuana as […]

Obama: Pot is not more dangerous than alcohol

Mary Mata January 21, 2014

By Associated Press/The Sacramento Bee WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he doesn’t think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.” “As has […]

Latinos Back The National Trend Supporting Legalizing Marijuana

Mary Mata April 8, 2013

By Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News Latino For the first time since attitudes began to be tracked, a majority of people in the United States say they now support making the use […]

Legal Marijuana and the Mexican Drug Cartels

Mary Mata December 18, 2012

By Phillippe Diederich, Voxxi Now that Marijuana is supposed to turn legal in both Washington State and Colorado, it will be interesting to see how supply and demand, violence, arrests and […]

$20 Million In Weed Found In Cilantro

Mary Mata October 13, 2011

Sometimes there’s a story that comes along that just blows your mind — this is one of those stories. Millions of dollars in marijuana was found bundled up with cilantro […]

News Taco To Go: Horchata, Debt, Avocados & Weed

Mary Mata August 2, 2011

Strawberry Horchata Debt Ceiling Deal Bad News For Latinos U.S. Gobbles Guacamole As Mexico Suffers Avocado Shortage California Marijuana Eradication Evokes Secrecy, Military

California Marijuana Eradication Evokes Secrecy, Military

Mary Mata August 1, 2011

By Tim Crews, Publisher, The Sacramento Valley Mirror Willows, California — Close your eyes, you nosy reporters and citizens. The helicopters and hundreds of officers spread out over the North State […]

City Bans Smoking Paraphernalia, Opens Door For Latino Harassment

Mary Mata March 24, 2011

The City of Corpus Christi, Texas passed an ordinance that would ban anything that could be used to smoke illegal substances on February 8; the ordinance banned pipes but allows […]

Latino Police Officers Back CA Marijuana Initiative

Mary Mata October 27, 2010

The National Latino Officers Association is set to approve legalizing mota in California this week. As we previously reported, Latinos don’t smoke as much mota as whites but get arrested […]

Whites Smoke More Pot, but Latinos Are Arrested More

NewsTaco October 22, 2010

Yeah. Try your best to not feign sarcastic surprise. Funny thing is, we need a study for that? Apparently the NAACP ponied the cash, and published the result. The headline […]