[Eleutheria5]

If just pot were legalized, the resulting tax revenues might create a surplus, and the economy would be stimulated with a new, highly popular industry. Then there would be the savings in law enforcement, both in terms of cash costs and human capital. But noooooo. It has to stay illegal because it has to stay illegal because it has to stay illegal.

[brent13a]

If just pot were legalized, the resulting tax revenues might create a surplus, and the economy would be stimulated with a new, highly popular industry. Then there would be the savings in law enforcement, both in terms of cash costs and human capital. But noooooo. It has to stay illegal because it has to stay illegal because it has to stay illegal.

How exactly does the US gov't regulate the cartels if pot becomes legal? You believe the violence and all that just magically disappears? Please explain exactly how legalizing pot just POOF cures all drug problems. I mean explain how law-policy-import-export-regulation-distribution would be handled in such a way that the whole world drug trade would magically cease to exist and all the corruption and death would cease to exist with it. Exactly how would that happen?

[Cvengr]

All drugs were decriminalized in Mexico over a year ago.

The violence hasn’t subsided.

Decriminalization and legalization merely reduce the justification for law enforcement to intervene in criminal behavior.