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If drugs are legalized—truly legalized—the need for “gangster types” diminishes and all that is left is supply and demand.
by LeoNatan25 9y ago
If drugs are legalized—truly legalized—the need for “gangster types” diminishes and all that is left is supply and demand.
- jrs95 9y agoThis is true, and I think there are a lot of ways in which that would improve things. Has anyone really taken it this far though?
- eru 9y agoThe US has: there were lots of criminal types in the alcohol business in the 1930s. Now there are virtually gone.
- megaman22 9y agoSeriously, without prohibition in the first place, so much of the police/industrial complex never would have come into existence.
- eecc 9y agoYou’re conflating. It’s “military/industrial complex” as Eisenhower called it. You’re probably referring to the “prison industrial complex”, the influential lobby of private prisons.
- jrs95 9y agoWhile this is true, it's not good enough to just assume that drugs are the same as alcohol because alcohol is a drug.
- eru 9y agoThat's true. Eg alcohol inebriation tends to make a sizeable part of the population violent; pot eg just makes people hungry and lethargic. And from what I heard cocaine is basically sociopathy as a powder. Etc. The problem of organised crime has more to do with legal prohibition of a good that enjoys widespread demand, than with that good being a drug. See gambling or prostitution or corruption in construction. I remember some article about 'sand mining mafias' in India. Sand!