[JustSayNoToNannies]

Simply transporting heroin base from its source to its destination currently results in a more than 30-fold price increase; if drugs were legal they'd be vastly less expensive than now.

Hmm ~ so you imagine the middlemen can be put out of business?

Did I say that? No. Show me a legal product whose simple transportation results in a 30-fold price increase.

and drugs getting cheaper? Obviously you aren't buying many drugs these days. Even with generics the price inevitably goes up!

The generic always remains cheaper than the brand name, just as legal drugs will always be cheaper than illegal ones.

[muawiyah]

How foolish you are. The controlled version will be the new, far higher priced brand name. That price will ALWAYS be higher than that of the continuing stream of unlawfully produced and transported product.

You do realize your friendly neighborhood dope dealers have absolutely NO INTEREST in legalization. Like the numbers salesmen before them they'd be out of business ~ even though, like the return rate on numbers, that will decline substantially. Folks engaging in state sponsored lotteries may get to deal with clean cut sales clerks in tidy gas station snack shops BUT the state keeps more than any Mafia Don ever thought seemly.