Toothpicvic
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Yes, that's the difference. How many snitches have had their heads sawed off by RJ Reynolds enforcers in the last year?Indeed! I sounded like a nut for a second, yeah
Cigarette cartels? You mean the cigarette companies. Yep - they do exist and are quite ruthless, they're just functioning within the means of the law instead of outside of it.
How many people did they kill last year in drive-by cigarette shootings? The anti-drug police force is way more ruthless than any "cigarette cartel".There will always be the 'black market' or the 'underground' - even if it's perfectly legal there will always been groups and cartels trying to make more money by underselling. As does often happen with cigarette-rings. . . remember years back when an underground gang was convicted of tax-evasion. They would buy cartons of cigarettes by the hundreds in Texas (I believe) where is was cheaper per carton (cost and taxes) and then drive it to North Carolina where the cigarette-taxes were a lot higher . . . thus spending far less $$ to buy out of state and drive it back to their store - under the radar and around Uncle Sam. . . all for profit.
And less people will be killed. The prohibition is proof of that. But if you're saying it won't make a difference either way, then the logical solution is to decriminalize drugs and stop wasting taxpayer dollars fighting them.So legalizaton won't prevent crime - the criminals will just have a bit more wiggle room or will have a different function. Rather than making money by functioning illegally - they'll make money by skirting the system.
I do hear of people beating their wives to death who were not high on weed (or coke for that matter).Kind of off subject, though, but I simply don't support the legalization of drugs that are prfoundly mind-altering. Its level of addition isn't so much the issue, it's how it effects the person. Right now tobacco, caffeine and alcohol are our 3 main legal substances - there are others, sure, but nothing quite so widely used. So - I think that present a social level of tolerance is and can be used as a gauge. So - cocain, meth . . . no. But a bit of pot? Sure, why not. I don't hear of people beating their wives to death because they were high on weed.
Addiction, wanting to get away or have a mental vacation, is almost human nature - we've been smoking and drinking since the dawn of man. . . but too much of a fun things can be bad. It's not the drugs themselves but how people behave while under the influence that makes it bad.
Singaporean Man Kills Daughter Over Cigarettes!