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So they’ll up meth and heroin production.
Yup, this will follow the end of prohibition....the former illegal sellers will become the new legal distributors.
Reminds me of when I was a kid, I asked my dad why were the numbers and bookmaking illegal. My dad said to me as soon as the state figures a way to make money off it, it will be legal son. That was 50 years ago, long before lottos and off track betting.
Using the same logic. Let's prohibit murder.
If prices actually dropped that low, then prices in the legal stores would likely be higher than street prices...and the illegal trade would continue to do well, killing the State profits.
Well, not really. Under prohibition organized crime made so much money that by the time it ended they had huge amounts of ill-gotten capital to invest in more lucrative enterprises.
Which is the Mafia basically owned NYC in the 1970s, with the Gambino family pulling in an estimated $500mm per year. And that was back when $500mm was a lot of money.
But I do agree, and have often argued, that making drugs illegal is what raises the price and makes it an attractive business for organized criminals.
Too bad the War on Drugs has already financed all the Cartels to the point where they have become ubiquitous in America.
US Marijuana Legalization Already Weakening Mexican Cartels.
BS tons of the stuff is smuggled every day to keep up with the demand in California the DEA can’t keep up with them even the LA time reports it.
armed robbery of wacko weed shops don’t count as violence?
If legalizing dope ends dope crime maybe they should legalize robbery, rape and other criminal acts too.
Then there won’t be any crime at all.
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stop! It makes too much sense! My brain is exploding from the simple logic and clear analogy to alcohol Prohibition’s effect on US criminality!
America’s first foray into rolling back prohibition 2.0 is barely underway, and already marijuana prices have dropped low enough to convince some cartel farmers in Mexico to abandon the crop.
Nah, I call BULLSHIT!
These are people that kill as easily as they take a leak. Not going to give up a profitable business without a fight.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
As long as users go unpunished, legalization is the only option.
just legalize everything. if crack, meth, heroin, LSD, and all the rest are legalized, all the profit will go away and the bad guys will get out of the business and work in legitimate industries. then we can all have unicorns for pets and drink rainbows with our lunch.
“America’s first foray into rolling back prohibition 2.0 is barely underway, and already marijuana prices have dropped low enough to convince some cartel farmers in Mexico to abandon the crop.”
Fox did a report on it a while back that showed the legal dope was so expensive due to the taxes that dopers were getting Rx cards so they could grow their own, and they sell the surplus on the illegal market.
The Mexican cartels are also buying up the dope stores and selling their dope in the now legal market.
Since the banks won’t do business with the dope stores, it is all a cash only market in the legal stores. The liberals didn’t think this one through very well.
The liberal ‘pipe’ dream of huge tax windfalls from legal dope is going up in smoke. There is no pot of gold from a legal product that is as easy to grow as a tomato plant.
Funny article. Anyone who actually believes this nonsense also votes for DemocRATS.
Well of course. Been saying for years we should legalize marijuana for this reason.
We had MANY an interesting conversation in my Prosecutor’s office about the (as almost all of us thought) ridiculous “War on Drugs”. Wanna de-fund terrorists? Legalize and regulate. I was actually surprised how many thought that was the way to go.
Be assured, the War on Drugs is a grand joke. We MAYBE get 1%. Maybe. And it does nothing to stop using.
Yeah, because battling for share in a shrinking market, among violent groups, is always such a pleasant thing. Violence isn’t going to decline, it is going to increase.
I am one of the people not surprised by this, which is why I turned against the War on Politically Incorrect Drugs. Note my tagline.
Hopefully people in power will note this and act accordingly, but I think the people will have to make more of this happen. Authority is hard to let go of.
