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This 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?
by jrs95 9y ago
This 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!