10-01-17, 06:43 PM
(10-01-17, 02:00 PM)slappy link Wrote: Make drugs legal and all that will happen is that the Tobacco and Alcohol companies will switch production to drugs as they have nothing to lose, governments will lose tax money so they will just heavily tax drugs instead and then all the do gooders will be telling you that you should just have so many drug hits a week and that governments should tax them even more. Drug dealers will then just produce more crappy shit and undercut the taxed legal drugs, just as they do now with alcohol and drugs.
Interesting that people want to legalise drugs but they seem to forget that governments all over the world are trying to restrict alcohol and cigarette use which are legal to use and buy.
Cigars and alcohol are highly taxed in my country, but not nearly enough to make black market highly profitable enough to be massive.
Also, the prices are not as high as they are for drugs, so you don't see people stealing things to get cigars and alcohol. Even the lowlifes that are addicted to alcohol.
Legalizing drugs will not influence the profit of cigars and alcohol in a big way. You don't quit smoking (and drinking) when you use drugs, quite the contrary.
Last time USA tried to make alcohol illegal was a great time for mafia, great business.
Restricting and controlling use is one thing, making it prohibited and illegal might sound similar, but it's far from it.
Most things done in a hurry need to be done again - patiently.