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drug cartels along the mexican border. he joins us now. there is a survey showing marijuana use is way up in this country. you think lax enforcement is part of the reason? jon i do. illegal drug use is now at a ten-year high. marijuana use is up, illegal drug use across the border is up. it was up 9% just last year. here we had the administration actually directing its federal prosecutors not to enforce federal law and not to go after these so-called medical marijuana distributors that are so often just fronts for illegal marijuana and illegal drug distribution. i don t understand why the administration doesn t want to enforce our drug laws that we have on the books. that s one of the explanations i think for this new ten-year record in illegal drug use. jon: you said that in your letter i want to read our viewers part of it. you wrote to the attorney general i am concerned that the