Because most people prefer to go to their local coffeeshop or bar to get their marijuana or drugs, rather than stand in some dismal alley or street corner to get their stuff. Even if you get your weed from a friend, he's going to be going to the dismal alley to get it from the dealer in the rough part of town. Somebody's getting it from the rough part of town.
'Bill' will actually quite quickly become 'unemployed', as these individuals will find it difficult if not impossible to transition to 'legal' enterprise. It would be intersting to see all the Bling Blingers who use drug money to fund the entire Urban Subculture of expensive, flashy cars, big jewelry etc. have to transition to..hmm..to what exactly? What would fill the void of the money earned from selling drugs? What would a small country like Trinidad do actually, without being a transshipment point for drugs entering the US and Europe? That money does flow through our economy. A three bedroom townhouse in Trinidad is about 200,000US minimum in a decent area.A 318i BMW is about US$40,000. People purchase three and four of these townhouses, and you can see several BMWs on the road and other expensive luxury cars (JAGUAR is going to be introduced in Trinidad early next year). Where does that money come from? A lot of it from money laundering and other proceeds of the drug trafficking trade. We do have a lot of oil money, but that hardly filters down to the general population and is kept in the tight circles of the elite due to a corrupt and generally ineffective government. So there are a lot of reasons AGAINST legalising. But the most sensible ones have nothing to do with the 'dangers' to the population of an explosion in drug use because of legalising, or the dangers of Marijuana itself etc. It's just economics. And if the money and economics says that it is more lucrative, profitable, and stable to maintain some sort of balanced trade in illegal drugs, then it will not be legalised unless there is very strong public outcry as what ended Prohibition. In fact, check back to how much money was made on both sides, Law Enforcement and Criminals during Prohibition. What happened to those criminals when Prohibition ended? The precendent is already there. Or maybe I'm just cynical ;-) -Gel -----Original Message----- From: G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 1:24 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: The $25 billion failure If you make them legal, how does this remove the profict incentive? Drugs will now be bought in grocery stores and 7-11's? If drugs are illegal, and I buy my drugs from Bill, then drugs become legal, what's to say i'm not going to keep buying my drugs from Bill? >> Russel wrote: >> Then where is related increase in price? The market for illicit and >> illegal drugs is the ultimate example of the rules of supply and demand. >> If supply decreases and demand increases, the price should rise >> significantly. > > 1.) SPend the money on drugs as if they are a health prob because they > are. > > 2.) Make them legal to remove the profit incentive from selling them. > > problem solved. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:138876 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
