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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advanta

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Keeping marijuana illegal mainly helps large criminal groups in Mexico and other places because they make billions from selling it illegally. If marijuana were legalized, these groups would quickly lose their strong position in the market.

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