[robertpaulsen]

"3. No amount of social spending can uplift people who don't want to be uplifted out of crime and poverty. These people were given everything they needed to start life fresh, and they chose to go back to their old ways."

Based on that, I take it that you do not believe if drugs were legalized these drug dealers would go out and get a real job.

Neither do I.

[mugs99]

James Bernazzani, the F.B.I.’s special agent in charge in New Orleans, said Asian gang members from Canada had also recently begun distributing large quantities of drugs in the eastern part of the city

LOL!
Yes robert, those drug laws are really working well...More drug gangs and more drug violence!
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[CurlyDave]

Based on that, I take it that you do not believe if drugs were legalized these drug dealers would go out and get a real job.

Neither do I.

Of course they wouldn't go out & get a real job. But, legalizing drugs would remove their source of income. Dealers are the only people in the 'hood with money, power and prestige. Remove that and they become just another group of derelicts, with no power to attract recruits into their fold.

We can preach to inner-city kids all we want about how the road to success is to get an education and a job, but when all the real life successes they see are people who dropped out of school to become criminals and drug dealers, they are smart enough to follow the proven route...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Based on that, I take it that you do not believe if drugs were legalized these drug dealers would go out and get a real job.

Uh...these drugs are already illegal....