The ‘war on drugs’ has cost more lives, cost more money, and destroyed more businesses than anything else. Prohibition does not work, never has, never will. Cigarette smuggling is now a major business in New York.
Decriminalize it, tax it, license it, use the proceeds for treatment. It will fund treatment, get the gangs out of the drug business.
They will not use the proceeds for treatment and it will not get the gangs off the street.
Example: Tobacco payoffs to the states as well as SS fund. The advent of legal grass with taxes in Colorado has raised the price so high that it is cheaper to continue buying from the street dealer. Every one of your reasons(not new as we used to advocate the same things back in the 60’s) are all full of bull excrement. I sometimes think my grandpa had the right idea concerning drug dealers; public hanging after conviction. He said it worked pretty darn good with the train robbers and cattle rustlers.
They will not use the proceeds for treatment and it will not get the gangs off the street.
Example: Tobacco payoffs to the states as well as SS fund. The advent of legal grass with taxes in Colorado has raised the price so high that it is cheaper to continue buying from the street dealer. Every one of your reasons(not new as we used to advocate the same things back in the 60’s) are all full of bull excrement. I sometimes think my grandpa had the right idea concerning drug dealers; public hanging after conviction. He said it worked pretty darn good with the train robbers and cattle rustlers.
They will not use the proceeds for treatment and it will not get the gangs off the street.
Example: Tobacco payoffs to the states as well as SS fund. The advent of legal grass with taxes in Colorado has raised the price so high that it is cheaper to continue buying from the street dealer. Every one of your reasons(not new as we used to advocate the same things back in the 60’s) are all full of bull excrement. I sometimes think my grandpa had the right idea concerning drug dealers; public hanging after conviction. He said it worked pretty darn good with the train robbers and cattle rustlers.
Be careful what you wish for. Tobacco is now practically illegal. The over regulation is a joke. The liberals in all parties will do the same with pot. They’ll decriminalize while over regulating.
If cigs are being smuggled in due to over taxation by one state then the same will happen with legal pot.