Posted on 03/13/2015 6:53:07 PM PDT by Lorianne
Just some of Obama’s shovel ready infrastructure jobs.
Drug runners follow demand, not the other way around. If you legalize and don’t overtax, nobody will buy a gram from them.
Heroin has become popular again purely due to the DEA crackdown on Rx opiates. Now more junkies will end up clogging our hospitals because they are shooting Mexican tar instead of the cleaner Rx drugs.
Interesting the truck was headed for the house with two and a half tons of weed. Seems strange. Anyway, nice of him to get his Dad busted too.
Drug runners can't create demand by sheer force of will.
They don't have to. Heroin use has been increasing all over the country - sadly. Kids get hooked on Oxycontin or some other medicine cabinet drug and find they can't afford it on the black market so they find they can get a dose of heroin for $5 instead of the $20-$50 for Oxy. Next thing you know they're hooked.
True - so by a happy-for-pot-dealers coincidence, the black market for heroin is having an uptick just as the black market for pot is being deflated by legalization. But that's a considerably more complex and less reliable linkage than "all they would do is switch" - if pot legalization continues as it seems to be trending, the loss of criminal opportunity will outstrip heroin demand, to the benefit of us all.
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