Hello and welcome to another episode of the JRE Review. Today I am reviewing

quite disturbing podcast and a lot of ways a podcast 12.53, your Rogan's

conversation with Johann Grillo, spelled alone. He's an English guy,

journalist that has been working in Mexico and has written a book called El

Narco. So just from the title you can imagine what he's been doing down there

in Mexico. This conversation is disturbing just for what you learn about

what's going on down in Mexico. Johann is obviously put himself in a great

deal of danger in a lot of ways by reporting on the cartel situation down there.

For example, he gives a story fairly early on that at this one town or city a

new chief of police was elected and within and somebody asked them, are you

afraid of the cartels? And he's like, no, six hours later, you shut that. So madness,

right? And what Johann is trying to do is not only just point out the

devastation down there that these cartels are causing and how ruthless they are,

but the larger point is, is how do we take care of this? How do we sort this out?

How do we take the power away from these people and the corruption and so on?

Because it's just horrific. One thing Johann talks about with Joe and Joe,

obviously, is a bit of an advocate for this is legalization of drugs. You know,

if you legalize it like you have they have with marijuana, you legalize that.

Well, all of a sudden we don't need to buy marijuana anymore from cartels in

Mexico. I mean, it's fairly simple and we're making money from it. You know, we're now making

money. All of the money goes to the people selling the marijuana in the United States,

the businesses and then tax revenue and so on. And you know, not to say that all tax revenue going

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