[MarkL]

I suppose it's too bad that drugs are responsible for other, more destructive criminal behavior. I mean, as long as the user isn't being hurt, who cares if drug dealers wage brutal street wars even now to control more turf, introduce more drugs, and corrupt more children? Right?

I keep reading about all the crime wars fought by organized crime over beer and whiskey... Oh, you mean that those crimes aren't being commited anymore? When did they end?

If the criminal penalties are ended, the criminal activities will end too.

Mark

[MrRepublic]

Wouldn't it be glorious to think so? Really, that idea couldn't stand up against a mouse breaking wind.

[Don Myers]

"If the criminal penalties are ended, the criminal activities will end too."

Well, yes. If crime is legalized, the immediate result will be zero crime. Of course, we will still having people getting killed, kids being kidnapped, etc. etc., however, the crime rate will still be at a zero level. You see, there is method in the madness of these people.

[weegee]

I don't know about that. There ae a number of schemes to traffic in cigarettes without paying the taxes (when the Mississipi river flooded and truckloads of cigarettes were written off as "damaged" in the floods, investigators went to examine and verify that they hadn't "disappeared".

"Moonshine" still exists.

Who polices these crimes? The ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms). Who do you think would police drugs if we legalized them and then "taxed the hell out them" as many people suggest? A simple procedure to move the DEA to be under the ATF.

Do you feel safer now?

[Howlin]

If the criminal penalties are ended, the criminal activities will end too.

You mean if it weren't against the law, then Robert Blakeley's wife would still be alive?