[Fry]

the black market that Wo(s)d-ers insist would still exist if these substances were legalized is currently non-existent on a national level with regards to alcohol and tobacco.

Don't you think the main reason there is no black market for these products is because they are widely, legally available and competitively priced?

And there are black market cigarettes in cities where the per pack taxes are too high (these are stolen cigarettes, not hand rolled ones) and Moonshiners still exist. Granted, neither of these constitute problems approaching the illegal drug trade, but they do exist. The only way a black market wouldn't exist for legalized drugs would be if those drugs were competitively priced. Would you want that?

[Virginia-American]

The only way a black market wouldn't exist for legalized drugs would be if those drugs were competitively priced. Would you want that?

My own opinion is that the gov't should be, by a Constitutional amendment, forbidden to tax any drug, including alcohol. Think of it as punishment for their previous lies.

[truenospinzone]

Would I want an adult who decides to use cocaine to be able to go to a state-licensed pharmacist and buy it at a "competitive price", as opposed to wandering into a neighborhood he's not familiar with and be assaulted/robbed by his dealer, who later that day sells coke to a thirteen year-old and is shot and killed by a rival dealer? Yes.