Posted by
Rocky Mountain Foundation on Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:12:12 AM
Thanks to Prohibition II, the United States' so-called "war" on drugs, American drug users supply most of the money supporting Mexico's drug cartels. That the cartels threaten that country's ability to maintain a government is well known. Too bad we Americans can't claim it's just Mexico's problem and go blithely through our own lives in comfort and peace.
We provide here a link to an interactive map of Mexican drug trafficking activity in the United States. One can use buttons on the map to expand or contract the scale, move map sections around, and segregate reported activities of several different cartels.
The introduction: "In the past three years, more than 230 U.S. cities have reported the presence of Mexican drug trafficking organizations. These organizations ... [affect] every region of the country."