It is exactly the same level of success. It has managed to keep it tamped down to a low level, say around ~2% which it has been for the last 100 years or so.
and laws against murder don't put billions of dollars in profits in criminal hands.
You think so? I think laws against murder are pretty much the only thing keeping people like Bill Gates alive against the wishes of all the Windows users out there.
No, laws against murder protect billionaires even more than other people.
But we are still having murders. Is that a failure or a success?
It's orders of magnitude closer to success than drug criminalization
It is exactly the same level of success. It has managed to keep it tamped down to a low level, say around ~2%
You're one quarter of the way to supporting your claim - now you need fact-based numbers for the current level of murders and the levels murder and drug crimes would reach absent the laws against them. In the meantime, the numbers I've noted weigh against "the same level of success."
and laws against murder don't put billions of dollars in profits in criminal hands.
You think so? I think laws against murder are pretty much the only thing keeping people like Bill Gates alive against the wishes of all the Windows users out there.
No, laws against murder protect billionaires even more than other people.
Protecting billionaires has nothing to do with putting billions of dollars in profits in criminal hands.