Holy crapola - you are stupid!
These gangsters, the Mexican Cartels, have an infrastructure that they will go to great lengths to maintain. A black market to get around the regulations and taxation that our Federal government will levee against addictive drugs, just like they do tobacco, will result in a raging black market.
It HAS happened in other places.
These gangsters, the Mexican Cartels, have an infrastructure that they will go to great lengths to maintain. A black market to get around the regulations and taxation that our Federal government will levee against addictive drugs, just like they do tobacco, will result in a raging black market.
It HAS happened in other places.
Pot, this is Kettle, you are black. Over
You people learn nothing from history. Prior to Prohibition, there was no organized crime to speak of. Sure, there have always been small geograpically-based criminal bands, but nothing like the organizations that sprang up in the wake of prohibition due to the huge amount of money that it generated. There was the same death and destruction on the streets in the big cities that we see today during prohibition because there were no legal avenues to keep that sort of thing in check. Today you don't see Miller brewing and Budweiser killing off thier compentition to fight over distribution rights like you saw back then.
Once prohibition was repealed, the level of violence was dramatically reduced. This is a simple, observable fact that those of you who support neoprohibition, and the drug lords just simply refuse to acknowledge. You'd rather keep the drug cartels, gangs, and their governmental enablers on the gravy train rather than admit that the entire enterprise has been a huge waste of resources and liberty-destroying compact between the dealers and the government.
It's true that there will be remnants around to attempt to get around any regulations and taxation that might be put im place after legalization, but that's an entirely different level of a problem, because the profit margins just simply don't compare.
Personally, I agree with other posters on this thread who have pointed out drugs are used to keep people docile, much like football, and American Idol. They have many avenues of social control, and drugs, which include alcohol and tobacco are just one of many tools used to keep the average joe from thinking about how different this country has become from that which existed prior the inroads made in the name of the "war on drugs".
However, I believe that the damage done by this fake "war" and the power it has gven to the government, is a bigger danger than some fellow down the street smoking a joint or doing some blow.
The drug warriors created the drug cartels, and continue to support them, as your response above indicates.