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Lets talk specifically about Marijuana prohibition.
One of the major differences between those who made liquor during prohibition (who were mostly family farmers who needed to make money during the depression) was they were not criminals (although criminals supplied the liquor once it was made into the cities).
One of the biggest reasons you can't just legalize pot, is because the suppliers and the growers are on the whole criminal operations. If yah legalized it, do those suppliers and growers suddenly become Legitimate?
Why is everyone so hung up on the idea that criminals would still be in the loop after legalization?
How are they going to compete? And why the hell would they be allowed to be legitimate?
The drug market would be regulated and put in the control of legitimate business interests, the smugglers, and the black marketers would get starved out of existence.
really it is not hard to grow, and I am sure Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds, and who knows what other legitimate interests would be more than happy for a new revenue stream.
Why would anyone buy illegal Mexican grown schwag (or any black market product) when there would be a cheaper, better domestic product just a drive away legally?
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