If it’s legal here the drug cartels won’t be able to compete with Winston Salem and RJ Reynolds for price or quality control..
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Quite the opposite is true. It’s the “kids: at Winston Salem and RJ Reynolds who won’t be able to compete with the “grown-ups” from the Mexican cartels.
The Mexican cartels run a trillion dollar industry. They run Mexico for that matter. Do you think they will just roll over and let go of their cash cow if America legalized dope?
The only way a complete surrender in the WOD would work would be to allow the Cartels to become successful legitimate US corporations.
Is that what you want?
RJR is bigger than all the drug cartels in Mexico, already has distribution set to hit every single convenience store in this country, and understands how to make quality control work for plant products so every pack tastes the same with the same effect. The cartels will have no choice but to roll over, because 10 minutes after pot gets legalized RJR will have pot cigarettes in every single business in America that already sell Camels, and they’ll be sitting along side Phillip Morris’ Potboro, and they’ll all be cheaper and easier to buy than anything the cartels can put up.
It’ll be the same as when Prohibition ended. Budweiser and Jack Daniel took over and the bootleggers had to find a new market, which we gifted them with when we started the WOD. Because the black market always has a larger markup per distribution step than a white market, and more distribution steps, and less ready access to public space black markets can’t compete with white markets. The only way the cartels “win” a legalized drug fight is if we screw up the tax situation to the point where the white market isn’t cheaper than the black market, which is a definite threat.
The WOD was a mistake. It was a stupid mistake that costs us trillions a year and has been used to completely shred the Constitution. We either “surrender” the WOD or surrender the country. The WOD doesn’t stop anybody from doing drugs, all it does is send the money to scum bag criminals, and give the cops the right to no knock raid my 80 year old mother-in-law because a “reliable tip” said somebody was dealing drugs out of her home with a warrant that incorrectly describes the home but she couldn’t point that out because they refused to let her see it until they were done with her search (actually happened, last week, less than a month after her husband died). That’s your WOD, no knock raids on 80 year old widows of war heroes.
what a false straw man that is
we're taking away their income, so we have no choice but to make MS13 a US corporation, that's your story
my story is taking weed away from them takes away half their income, takes weed offenders off the LEO watch and gives us more personnel and funds to secure our borders
difference being, my story actually makes sense
That's what the Mafia did when Prohibition ended:
"The lush traffic in alcohol beverages during the violent years of 1920 to 1933 had laid the base of organization for a number of criminal gangs. The termination of the ban on liquor deprived these gangs of their most lucrative source of money and they were obliged to turn to some other avenue of activity." - Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce