The gangs will find something else — guns, prostitution, human organs. Hell, legalize drugs and they'd probably get into the export business, smuggling our legal drugs to those countries where drugs remain illegal.”
“In 1907, when Georgia and Oklahoma made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors illegal state wide, the homicide rate in the United States was 1 person per 100,000 per year.[2] Before the end of the decade, 13 states plus Alaska, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia had gone dry.[6] By 1919—when the 18th amendment was passed, making alcohol use illegal nationwide—the homicide rate had grown to 8 per 100,000. The murder rate climbed steadily until it peaked at 10 per 100,000 around 1933, when our nation admitted its mistake, and repealed the 18th amendment. By 1943 the homicide rate had drastically shrunk to 5 per 100,000 and stayed near that level until 1964 when the United States made the same mistake all over again (see graphic).[2]”
http://w3.ag.uiuc.edu:8001/Liberty/Tales/CrimeAndDrugWar.Html
So, I don't get it. What's your point?