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Very had to compare to Japan because Japan essentially legalize organized crime. Yakuza are allowed to operate as long as the follow a minimum set of laws. Bas
by jernfrost 11y ago
Very had to compare to Japan because Japan essentially legalize organized crime. Yakuza are allowed to operate as long as the follow a minimum set of laws.
Basically Japan is following a tradeoff where they have chosen organized crime of lots of unorganized or violent crime.
So it will be very hard to compare such a system with a western country which deals with these issues in such a different manner.
I can mention that drug use is fairly low in my home country Norway as well despite pretty lax laws.
We are doing something very wrong with respect to heavier drugs like heroin though since we have a lot of overdose cases. But Switzerland and the Netherlands seems to be quite good at this and they have very liberal laws.
- Torgo 11y agoMaybe we should legalize organized crime instead of drugs. The logic is about the same.
- droffel 11y agoHow are legalizing drugs and legalizing crime in any way analogous? Legalizing crime doesn't even make sense, by definition.
- zeveb 11y agoWhat are the traditional organised crimes? - numbers games: this is just a lottery, only with better payouts - drugs: already addressed - prostitution: legal in many countries - loan sharking: this is just lending to risky borrowers at market rates, when lending at market rates is made illegal - protection racket: the only real crime here (and, like numbers games, the State hates competition…) I'd be fine legalising all but the protection racket, because it really is a racket.