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Summary: DC on BFP #27 | Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, joins us to discuss the violence in Michoacan and the rise of "autodefensas" (civilian self-defense groups). Also, "narco culture," media and the risk of sensationalism, marijuana legalization, and the drug war economy.