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I'm very strongly in favor of drug decriminalization, I believe it's oppressive for states to attempt to control the behavior of non-violent, well-informed, adu

I'm very strongly in favor of drug decriminalization, I believe it's oppressive for states to attempt to control the behavior of non-violent, well-informed, adult citizens who want to consume a substance. However, I think the overall situation is more complicated than that, as this article details. The organized crime cartels have many streams of revenue. There's nothing there to legalize in the case of activities like natural resource theft. When you have a corrupt and weak state, criminals will see opportunity in preying on innocent civilians and companies through threat of violence. Edit: Changed "There's nothing here to legalize." to "There's nothing there to legalize in the case of activities like natural resource theft." to clarify my statement.

drawkbox 8y ago
> The organized crime cartels have many streams of revenue. There's nothing there to legalize in the case of activities like natural resource theft. True, however with less criminal opportunities due to more legal/decriminalized markets such as ending the drug wars, there are legal market opportunities to offset the draw to black market opportunities, and help stop theft and other crimes by reducing demand providing alternatives to make a safer good living. Economic opportunities on legal markets need to be safer and comparative or better to the criminal opportunities/markets for any real change to be made. Theft and any violent crime not related to non-violent markets like drugs that should be legal/decriminalized, those are real crimes that can be pursued as they take other's civil, human and property/ownership rights away. Would there still be theft and other crimes? Sure but much less so if people had other routes to make money and survive.