I’m not so sure it is a pipe dream. I am saying the new technology makes a new paradigm in how illegal drugs can be controlled. I just read a good examination of the drug prohibition problem given at the link below.
I am now thinking about legalization, but in a modified form. I would have a hands off on the user. Their part in this maintains the market component. It is the supply component that technology can control. By limiting the supply you drive up the cost to the consumer. You don’t want to eliminate the market (including the street pushers) by incarceration, because you would reduce demand—the customers would be in jail. You want the market demand to drive up the cost when the supply falls. You want the price so high that it dries up the market.
I’m not so sure it is a pipe dream. I am saying the new technology makes a new paradigm in how illegal drugs can be controlled. I just read a good examination of the drug prohibition problem given at the link below.
I am now thinking about legalization, but in a modified form. I would have a hands off on the user. Their part in this maintains the market component. It is the supply component that technology can control. By limiting the supply you drive up the cost to the consumer. You don’t want to eliminate the market (including the street pushers) by incarceration, because you would reduce demand—the customers would be in jail. You want the market demand to drive up the cost when the supply falls. You want the price so high that it dries up the market.