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Can you expound? I don't understand your point.

• andrewmcwatters 4y ago
  When you legalize harmful substances, you create commercial opportunities for them to be sold, which gives malicious actors unbalanced power to sway political agents in their favor. Once a power dynamic emerges, it becomes difficult to undo it until it is too late, and individuals become statistics to be used as evidence for repealing legislation that made such a power dynamic possible.
• amflare 4y ago
  Think of the influence that Pharma or Oil or Tech have in the US. Now imagine that the sorts of people who (while it is illegal, mind you) choose to be in the drug trade joined this cohort.
  • mrguyorama 4y ago
    They won't join the cohort, because the cohort doesn't want them, and will just buy a fledgling business in the market instead, like Tobacco companies buying juul. It's laughable that people think you can just "join" the elite, like if you have enough money.