No. I posted about associated crime. A poster claimed that making drugs legal would not eliminate the crime associated with the drug trade in the US.
Well, when prohibition was repealed, 99.9% of the crime associated with its domestic production, importation, distribution, and sale instantly vanished.
To claim that the crime associated with those things in regardes to drugs would remain as they are today if legalization would occur is nonsense.
Care to try and prove me wrong?
As I have said many times on this thread, if you think the street level drug dealers are going to go out and get real jobs because you legalize all drugs, then you're nuts.
People will always find new, cheap ways to get high and criminals will commit profitable crimes that have a low risk/reward ratio. Let's say all drugs are legalized. The price will go up. Then there will be markets for black market legalized drugs or new, cheaper illegal drugs.
If you wanna equate booze with marijuana I'll give you that. Weed has been decriminalized. But you lose me when you say that the end of prohibition would look the same as if you legalized heroin, crack, and meth.