There was a time when it wasn’t, and sure we had addiction problems but somehow it didn’t seem to blow up into a huge crime wave in addition to it.
Today, if all the bans went away, the stock of rehab centers would skyrocket, but the prison-police complex would go begging in penury.
“stock of rehab centers would skyrocket”
Maybe. would the taxpayers have to pay for rehab? directly? via increased insurance rates? Yeah, then I guess the stock would.