[kingu]

My point is valid. Black markets simply can't compete with well-regulated legal markets. Why is that simple truth so hard for people to admit?

So how much tax will there be on the virginity of a nine year old girl? What regulations do you propose for cockfighting? Human slavery? Let me guess, all that magically goes away when drugs are made legal and well regulated?

I'll have to remember that if I happen to walk into one of the anti-personnel mines found in the Angeles forest less than five miles from my home in California, which for all intents and purposes has legalized marijuana cultivation.

[Ken H]

You should look to history for your answers, rather than spouting warmed over drug war crap. When alcohol was relegalized, how much was the tax on the virginity of a nine year old girl? How long was it before human slavery made a comeback?

And here's one for you... When we lift the regulations on fat in our foods and smoking in private establishments, how long before laws against child prostitution are lifted?

kingu: I'll have to remember that if I happen to walk into one of the anti-personnel mines found in the Angeles forest less than five miles from my home in California, which for all intents and purposes has legalized marijuana cultivation.

I've never heard of such a thing around distilleries or tobacco fields. Now I wonder why that is?

[William Tell]

kingu said: "I'll have to remember that if I happen to walk into one of the anti-personnel mines found in the Angeles forest less than five miles from my home in California, which for all intents and purposes has legalized marijuana cultivation."

As another poster has pointed out, nobody puts armed guards around potato farms. Who is going to spend money to protect a crop that will be less valuable than potatoes?

Have you ever asked yourself why our Founders didn't address the legality or illegality of "recreational" drugs? Why do you think it is a priority today when it wasn't two hundred years ago?