[muawiyah]

The "demand" side of the economic system CREATES the violence and death.

You simply get rid of the dopers, the demand goes away, so does the dope dealer.

[microgood]

The "demand" side of the economic system CREATES the violence and death.

Wrong. It is prohibition that creates the problem. We have historical proof (called Prohibition).

You simply get rid of the dopers, the demand goes away, so does the dope dealer.

But you cannot do that without losing your soul.

[a fool in paradise]

You simply get rid of the dopers, the demand goes away, so does the dope dealer.

Show people just where their cocaine comes from:

Man Swallows 85 Condoms of Cocaine to Smuggle to France (The Beaumont Enterprise ^ | 7/27/10)

It took five hours and four minutes, but a suspected drug trafficker finally surrendered the spoils: 85 condoms of cocaine he allegedly swallowed and intended to smuggle from Houston to France....

The 42-year-old citizen of the African nation of Togo gave up 2.2 pounds of his illicit cargo while sitting on a special no-flow toilet under the eyes of federal agents and doctors at a local hospital.

Certainly would give pause.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A lesson, apparently lost on many, from the era of alcohol prohibition was that since it was “in for a penny, in for a dollar” very few drinkers and smugglers dealt with beer. There was a little wine, and much, much moonshine and bathtub gin. These were not arm’s length transactions between capitalistically competing seller and buyer; the dealers used every means fair and foul to fuel demand and to keep their users. As a case in point, Mexican cartels today know no “honor among thieves” but are forever getting into deadly spats over “sales territory.”

Back to the theme of alcohol prohibition: once it ended, the alcoholic beverage consumption profile slid back towards the beer end of the spectrum.