To: freepersunite
Check out the crime rate in Amsterdam vis via the rest of Europe. Legalizing drugs increases, not decreases crime.
6 posted on
09/14/2009 2:50:15 PM PDT by
MNJohnnie
(Carbon offsets? Sounds like the Environmental Church wants us to buy climate indulgences.)
To: MNJohnnie
Legalizing drugs increases, not decreases crime. It probably would initially as the drug dealers and gangs fought for the last few remaining bits of territory.
But what would gangs and cartels use to finance their existence if they didn't have narcotics? I can't think of anything, except maybe identity theft, which doesn't produce the violence that narcotics trafficking does.
9 posted on
09/14/2009 2:57:48 PM PDT by
GunRunner
To: MNJohnnie
The problem for Holland is that they became a drug tourism spot. So far Portugal has had some success with decriminalization.
10 posted on
09/14/2009 2:58:57 PM PDT by
BJClinton
(Any "healthcare reform" without tort reform is a fraud.)
To: MNJohnnie
Hmmm...Amsterdam has lax drug laws. Detroit doesn’t. Using that logic, lax drug laws decrease crime, not increase it.
24 posted on
09/15/2009 9:51:55 AM PDT by
Nate505
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