[WyldKard]

When the hell are people going to wake up and realize that the economic laws of supply and demand have ALWAYS been in effect. People will ALWAYS want tobacco and alcohol, and to force their sales into the black market funds terrorism and crime.

Hey! I just thought of something! When Asa wastes yet another few million of our tax dollars trying to convince us that the bulk of drug-funded terrorism comes from pot sales, we can point to these figures and say "See...before cigarette sales were driven into the black market, over $200million dollars a year were going into the hands of legitimate parties. Ergo, the answer is to legalize pot"

[Wolfie]

Clearly, ratcheting up enforcment is the best solution to the problem of cigarette smuggling.

[MrB]

economic laws of supply and demand have ALWAYS been in effect

Money is like water. It always finds a way to get where it needs to go, despite all the vain efforts of the authoritarians.

And, like you said, when it has to go through illegal channels, it helps to fund other illegal activity harmful to our society.

[robertpaulsen]

If pot is legalized and taxed, this same type of thing will happen to pot prices. Then it will be legal and we'll have the bottleggers/gangs to deal with.

Eventually, you would hear about how much revenue is being lost from the people who grow their own. You think the WOD is bad now? Wait until there's lost federal/state/city revenue involved.