[hanamizu]

How about the economic war of legalizing everything.

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Legalizing it, of course means taxing it. As I understand it, cartel weed might well be cheaper than ‘legal’ taxed weed. And what’s to stop the cartels from dominating the legal market—if nothing else by offering ‘protection’ to the legal weed shops.

If the recent history of Mexico offers any lessons, the result of eliminating the major cartels as resulted in the growth of much nastier smaller cartels.

[NobleFree]

Legalizing it, of course means taxing it. As I understand it, cartel weed might well be cheaper than ‘legal’ taxed weed.

It might - or it might not, if moderately taxed like alcohol.

And what’s to stop the cartels from dominating the legal market—if nothing else by offering ‘protection’ to the legal weed shops.

By that logic, what’s to stop the cartels from dominating the entire U.S. economy by offering ‘protection’?