On Jul 14, 2008, at 11:42 PM, John Harvey wrote:
> The point is this. Even if you legalize drugs, the laws will still
> prohibit
> kids from having them. However, the kids will still want to get
> high. So
> what has legalization done? Nada
So repealing Prohibition did "nada" with regard to the crime
surrounding alcohol?
Your expectations are unreasonable. Nobody is claiming that repealing
the prohibition on drugs will make things perfect. The only
expectation is that you will remove the entire chain of dealers/
smugglers, since you will have removed their only interest in doing
this: money. We will save *billions* that would have gone to
continuing this fruitless effort to treat drug abuse as a "war", and
will receive billions in revenue that formerly went to the drug rings.
On the downside, we may have to close some of our jails.
-- Ed Leafe
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