The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 08/11/2014 6:13:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
So they’ll up meth and heroin production.
Yup, this will follow the end of prohibition....the former illegal sellers will become the new legal distributors.
Reminds me of when I was a kid, I asked my dad why were the numbers and bookmaking illegal. My dad said to me as soon as the state figures a way to make money off it, it will be legal son. That was 50 years ago, long before lottos and off track betting.
Using the same logic. Let's prohibit murder.
If prices actually dropped that low, then prices in the legal stores would likely be higher than street prices...and the illegal trade would continue to do well, killing the State profits.
Except the mob offered better odds.....
We'll have to legalize those next. /S
Well, not really. Under prohibition organized crime made so much money that by the time it ended they had huge amounts of ill-gotten capital to invest in more lucrative enterprises.
Which is the Mafia basically owned NYC in the 1970s, with the Gambino family pulling in an estimated $500mm per year. And that was back when $500mm was a lot of money.
But I do agree, and have often argued, that making drugs illegal is what raises the price and makes it an attractive business for organized criminals.
Too bad the War on Drugs has already financed all the Cartels to the point where they have become ubiquitous in America.
US Marijuana Legalization Already Weakening Mexican Cartels.
BS tons of the stuff is smuggled every day to keep up with the demand in California the DEA can’t keep up with them even the LA time reports it.
armed robbery of wacko weed shops don’t count as violence?
If legalizing dope ends dope crime maybe they should legalize robbery, rape and other criminal acts too.
Then there won’t be any crime at all.
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stop! It makes too much sense! My brain is exploding from the simple logic and clear analogy to alcohol Prohibition’s effect on US criminality!
Enter stage right, Darwinism. Both of those drugs as well as cocaine are like catching a wasting disease.
Personally I can’t understand how anybody can tolerate opiates and the constipation that comes along with frequent usage.
Well somewhat, 600-1 on a number but small pots vis a vis lotto and track odds on horses up to a certain limit of odds, usually 30 to one in my areas but what they did offer was credit...they had excellent loan collectors!
America’s first foray into rolling back prohibition 2.0 is barely underway, and already marijuana prices have dropped low enough to convince some cartel farmers in Mexico to abandon the crop.
Nah, I call BULLSHIT!
These are people that kill as easily as they take a leak. Not going to give up a profitable business without a fight.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
What makes drugs attractive to organized crime is profit. Profit requires sales, which comes from demand.
Nothing is being done to address demand. If anything use of these drugs is being encouraged.
Right, because bootleg liquor competes well when anyone can pick up booze at the store.
As long as users go unpunished, legalization is the only option.
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