Geez, why make it when it’s legal? Still an underground for it? Wait...isn’t that why we want to legalize drugs, to do away with crime and gangs?
“Geez, why make it when it’s legal?”
It’s all about money. High taxes and prohibition on anything encourage an underground market. You can see it in anything from handbags to coffee.
People want to buy whatever they want from stores that are safe, regulated and cheap. The fact that something is illegal does not remove the “want”. It only encourages people to buy dangerous, unregulated, and overpriced products while funding violent criminals through obscene profits.
Law enforcement and government also get a nice cut once they seize assets so regulation is in their favor. With these prohibition/tax policies, we all get screwed and less free under the guise of safety with no actual results to show for it.
Of course there are those who benefit: government and those that choose to exploit the risky but profitable market that the government created for them (and often allows those with connections to stay in business).
Because he can make it cheaper by undercutting the “legal” suppliers.