[muawiyah]

The argument that prohibition created Al Capone makes as much sense as the one that banks created Willy Sutton and neat cars created John Dillinger.

Those ol'boys'd been doing their stuff with or without a govenrment subsidy!

[Leonard210]

Sorry, I was using “created” in a more general sense. I probably should have said that it was bootleg alcohol that created the environment which Capone is figuratively symbolic.

When one state jacks up their cigarette taxes, people who saw no profit in selling cigarettes begin to smuggle product from lower taxed border states. The government of one state creates a profit incentive to break the law in border states.

Yes, of course, bad people do bad things without government subsidy. But to ignore the incentive created by government in the pot trade is short-sighted.